Ali Raza

Leading Supply chain for 2 business units with 1.5B
€ Revenue
• Managing 34 FTEs with 3 direct reports at Senior
manager level
Leading purchasing, order management, supply
management, Inventory management, NPI
management, Supply Chain engineer, MPS planning,
Martial life cycle management teams
➢ Developing a strong OMM leadership team with
strong managerial skills.
➢ Developing 18+ month plans for execution and risk
mitigation around materials management.
➢ Work with suppliers and supplier delivery
performance managers to develop strategies to
mitigate risk and improve on-time delivery.
➢ Recommend solutions to existing processes to reduce
waste and increase throughput.
➢ Manage the distribution of supplies in the
organization.
➢ Monitor inventory levels and access to the material;
chose the right strategy based on different class of
part.
➢ Closely Collaborate with cross functional teams to
plan forecasting models.
➢ Design and maintain department budgets.

Participate on the Business MT and drive Procurement strategies that meet the business and product portfolio needs
Responsible for managing the product context within procurement via DfX concept, interfacing with all other functional disciplines.
Global or regional scope Influencing spend and related risk for assigned product portfolio.
Establishes medium term (3-5 year) procurement strategy for assigned business;
Coordinates all relevant X-functional stakeholders around assigned product portfolio;
Leads all Procurement Engineering activity
Meets all BIU related Procurement Objectives/KPI’s
Achieves product cost reduction through value engineering/DfX and supply chain optimization in the BIU
Acts as interface to the Commodity Cluster Leaders
Demonstrate leadership and vision to support the organizational BIU objectives
Ensures that BIU Procurement Engineering related risks are controlled and mitigated;
Builds and secures manufacturing capabilities and capacity at 3rd party
Defines procurement requirements and business drivers for supply strategy for in/outsourcing and components in x-fctl collaboration;
Aligns Product & Technology Roadmaps with suppliers
Ensures early supplier involvement in Product Design Process
Manages the link between the new product introduction process with supplier selection
Secures S&OP linkage to component availability
Ensures development of cost & quality roadmaps & linkage to margin management
Manages development of Target Cost model of products

Conducts conscientious and ethical Due Diligence to support the NVI team in defining the Procurement risks and synergies with the potential acquisition
Builds a high quality integration procurement work stream team with cross-functional members from Philips and the acquired company.
Leads development and monitor execution of integration project plans for procurement
Leads development and execution of a detailed communication plan addressing suppliers
Responsible for key value creators (standalone and synergies). Delivers highest of either RFA value creation commitment or savings target as identified in first 90 days. Responsible to deliver upon the deal synergies.
Safeguards supply: identifies and ensures mitigation of supply risks & drives compliance roll-out
Implements Philips procurement processes in a phased way
Ensures that integration plan allows that current business is monitored and maintained during integration period.
Co-defines a procurement retention program for the procurement team of the acquisition

 Supplier contract & risk management, purchasing excellence, cost savings, relationship management.
 Managing commodity requirements across business unit and/or Product Lines or Services with an understanding of product life cycles.
 First Level of escalation internally and externally
 Leading a multi-functional team (e.g. supplier quality, CE-T's and Strategic buyers).
 First time supplier evaluation and review for the assigned scope
 Responsible for sourcing process for suppliers (scouting and procurement part in make or buy process)
 Developing local / regional/global commodity strategic and sourcing plans with a short to medium term 1-3 year sight line.
 Responsible for stakeholder management (CEO/CFO and other functional executives) in the assigned organizational scope.
 Discover new leverage opportunities in portfolio.

Manage all project related supplier relations (meetings, documents, feed-back)
Member in applicable project cross-functional team(s)
Bring Purchasing expertise in estimating supplier tooling cost throughout the project phase
Ensure deliverables from suppliers to fulfil APQP activities handled by SQA
Negotiate changes between contract and actual project needs; Product Change Requests (PCR) in project phase and ensure alignment to cost objectives
Implement raw material updates based on contracts/negotiations made by the Sourcing buyer during the project phase
Answer the Calculation Requests and ensure decided changes to cost- and lead time are updated in the system
Manage orders (SIPD, tooling, prototype, PPAP notification, blanket/contract orders…) in project phase
Ensure that supplier is prepared for production, including all needed system updates; require actions from Supplier Host when needed
Plan and drive the purchasing related SIPD (Supplier Involvement in Product Development) activities after supplier selection
Contribute to Business Review Meetings (BRMs) with project performance input
Give regular input to the Sourcing buyer/Supplier Host on supplier performance during the project phase
Based on the pre-requisites from Project Manager purchasing, gather cross-functional input and provide a high level plan for the sourcing cases in the sourcing plan, compile RFQ requirements (incl RVC requirements) and secure timely hand-over to the Sourcing buyer (Hand-over 1)
Support the Sourcing buyer in the sourcing phase with project expertise
Compile and deliver QDCF results from project phase and secure a timely hand-over to the Operation buyer (Hand-over 3)
Ensure collaboration with the other buyer roles within the respective segment(s)


Responsible for a purchasing for Air management 1 component Globally for all sites and local buyers.
Support product development and product modifications in the portfolio
Perform the activities required for the portfolio: sourcing, negotiations, optimization of total cost, requisition handling and ordering, tooling investments etc
Support projects, in-house and at internal customers
Support in developing and implementing strategies
Report and forecast commercial and technical rationalizations
Search for opportunities to improve the items cost and take action to implement them
Contribute to the achievement to the global KPIs by implementing strategies and cost saving activities
Manage day-to-day site operations within quality, projects, cost reductions, delivery and supplier relation

Responsible for a purchasing of components with full P&L responsibility. Support product development and product modifications. Perform the activities like negotiations; optimize the total cost (Quality, logistics, manufacturing, etc.), purchasing requisitions. Searches for opportunities to improve the items cost and take action to implement them. Contribute to the achievement of the KPI’s by implementing strategies and cost saving activities. Manage the working relationships with suppliers: solve quality, delivery, cost problems, perform customer evaluations. Manage day-to-day operations within quality, projects; cost reductions, delivery and supplier relations. Along with that I was responsible for managing the warehouse and stock levels in it. Managing ERP issue, Supply chain issue is daily routine of my job. I was also taking care of accounts payable function in finance and cost accounting in accounting department.

Perform all the purchasing, activities for following major US cities customers (City and county of San Francisco, Tigard, Portland, Austin) through Local USA and international vendors e.g. China, Japan, India etc
To settle the reimbursement issues between technicians and different US and international vendors such as IBM, Apple, HP & HP / Compaq, Fujitsu,
To work as Team Coordinator between GL, purchasing, Account payable and billing department (To help in smooth flow of work procedures of GL for preparing financial statements, GMD and P&L analysis reports on monthly basis, to place orders for purchasing department, to reconcile vendors payable statements for AP & to provide cost and billing information for billing department to recognize revenue for different customers each month and also with SOX compliance team to redefine processes and reduce risk associated with processes)