Althaf Hussain Shaik

• Generating replenishment reports for 5 countries (UAE, KSA, Oman, Qatar, Lebanon) by checking Sales History, Market Share, Price Levels, Project Pipeline, Forecast, Inventory and confirming the Qty to be purchased with respective country GM’s
• Creating projection plan for each SKU based on the yearly projected agreement with the supplier
• Handling a team of 3 and checking there day to day activities and completing the tasks allocated
• Generating reports on Projected Sales Vs Actual Sales and reporting the analysis to the Supply chain manager and country GM’s in Monthly/Quarterly meetings
• Participating in monthly, quarterly and yearly meetings to monitor the forecasts and updating the changes if there are any modifications in the demand
• Reducing over stocks by applying appropriate demand planning techniques
• Negotiating with the supplier in terms of change in prices, new product launches and quality issues
• Creating integrated Supplier service Scorecard by predefined KPI’s agreed with the supplier
• Managing all 3PL activities and responsible in checking the space availability, issues in day to day routine and calculating monthly expenses as per policy
• Working with freight forwarders by receiving, approving quotations as per predefined policies shipments and coordinating with 3PL team on the by processing ASN and clearing documents
• Creating lesson learnt sheets on the issues and using it for training and quality
• Expert in MS office and presentation skills

As Supply Chain Coordinator
Period : Jan-2015 to Oct-2016
Key Result Areas
• Worked in UK as part of Rolls Royce central purchasing team for a year, understanding the regular processes and activities on forecasts of parts
• Contacting suppliers and vendors regularly in requesting quotations, renegotiating prices and resolving claims and issues
• Creating projection plan for every item/Component which covers all the savings/year in a shared area, makes the data easily accessible and visible to all stakeholders and placing purchase orders in a defined time frame
• Expert in dealing with all Purchase order’s (PO), Change Order’s (CO) and entire cycle of procurement (RFI, RFP, RFQ)
• Creating a Global physical Logistic map, which maps each step of the supply chain to show & eliminate unnecessary movements of components around the world, reduce costs and increase profits
• Making integrated Supplier Scorecard by predefined KPI’s and Supplier Engagement Plans along with the creation and updating of commodity strategies, for supplier selection and in supply chain design activities
• Raising purchase orders on Raw Materials/Items using Synthesis2 and SAP to let supplier know on latest required parts
• Defining or modifying global physical logistics map in case of newly added parts or on new vendor availability
• Sound working knowledge of Letters of Credit, Documentary Credits, UCP 600 and INCOTERMS.
• Discussions with design, Config teams on the status of NPI engines and defining or updating forecasts as per the plan
• Discussions with marketing and service teams on existing engines and finalizing the forecasts reports in a fixed time frame
• Participating in monthly, quarterly and yearly meetings to monitor the forecasts to update the changes if there are any modifications in the demand
• Creating lesson learnt sheets as per previous issues and using it for training and quality
• Experience in project management activities such as managing the billing related activities for all the onsite associates and training them on Rolls Royce policies and procedures
• Performance evaluation of onsite associates and handling employee issues
• Involved in discussions with Clients in case of billing hours, escalations, DPMO and process improvements

As Strategic Analyst (Inventory Control):
Period : July-2013 to Dec 2014
Key Result Areas
• Understanding inventory requirements and provide recommend solutions from offshore.
• Analyzing sales and performance records interpret results as well as publish findings from proactive analysis and generate quarterly, yearly procurement reports along with supplier quality issues.
• Conducting quantitative analysis including ROI, trending, identification and assessment of inventory.
• Gathering necessary information from other Engine Units and cross functional teams to assist future inventory and reporting to managers in case of issues.
• Supporting the research process and knowledge sharing within the global team by setting up research calls and summarizing multi-member online or phone discussions.

Project : Product Assessment and Support Services (PASS)
Customer : CISCO SYSTEMS INC.
Period : Mar-2011 to Jun-2013
Role : Team Member
Product Life Cycle Program Manager (Cisco Business Units)
Key Result Areas
• Leading a team of 5 members and delivering end to end project deliverables as per the quality standards.
• Excellent knowledge on Product structuring, and coordinate design release in conjunction with Product Data Management/Product Lifecycle Management in both Oracle and Agile environments.
• Analyzing impact of End of Life(EOL) manufacturing change notices on current projects and NPIE projects
• Strong knowledge of in and out of Supply chain Process, strategy and manufacturing techniques/processes.
• Conceptualized and implemented material requirement plan as per production floor needs and placing purchase orders for the required parts if necessary
• Assured the cost saving measures by Value Engineering(VE) to gain the substantial reduction in terms of man days, production cost, raw materials and energy consumption
• Assessing and analyzing incoming Engineering Changes and tapping the impact of Engineering Change on Product & Process
• Actively involved in:
o Discussions with suppliers in case of extension of EOL notification
o Discussing with marketing & service teams on inventory levels
o Arranging for discussion with design team in case of adding new vendors or lead free parts
• Developed and implemented sourcing strategies, encompassed vendor identification, development and analytical assessment, to strengthen supply chain effectiveness.
• Preparing charts and monthly metrics on EOL MCN’s to Cisco PLPM.
• Looked after the timely placement of purchase orders with different shipment details, etc.
• Expert in managing BOM's by checking with design team, engineering drawings
• Developing new ideas to increase ROI
• Offering the overall estimated work effort and cost-sizing for executing mid-sized and enhancement projects & sending weekly reports to manager as well as customer.