Warehouse Manager - Operations Supply Chain
Almarai Company - Western Bakery
Total years of experience :22 years, 6 Months
Manage two owned and three hired warehouses for packaging and raw material for the Bakery Division.
• Responsible for receipt and storage of material as per AIB and HAACP standards.
• Direct five supervisors, 75 warehouse and support staff.
• Assisted in 2012 budget preparation by providing relevant inputs and data.
Responsible for SAR 73 million inventory, 350 line items, 15, 000 pallet position warehouses.
• Manage receiving, picking, packing, and shipping of 1, 000 pallets daily.
• Operate facility in compliance with Almarai standards for quality and health and safety as per AIB, HAACP, OSHA, and ISO-22000.
Major Projects
Initiated reporting of nonmoving, expired, and obsolete material
Weekly circulation of report and follow up to highlight nonproductive storage expenses.
Improved the scrap collection and disposal procedure
Took over and completely revamped the procedure to identify scrap generation and disposal resulting in more than 100% increase in scrap revenue.
Increased manpower performance by redefining roles
Reallocated warehouse positions, established responsibilities, increased manpower efficiency, enabling manpower reduction.
Streamlined inventory identification and tracking system.
Increased focus on accuracy of documentation and daily cycle count.
Standardized receiving, stocking, checking, and housekeeping procedures.
Achievements
• Successfully pushed through approvals for disposal of 475 pallets of nonmoving and obsolete packaging material.
• Scrap revenue averaging approximately SAR 64, 000 from SAR 30, 000 in 2011.
• Reduced by 10% manpower costs by retaining efficient resources.
• Reduced inventory discrepancies to less than 1% of total value from a previous range of 1.5% to 2%.
• Increased the focus on health and safety by regular toolbox talks and meetings.
• Consistently maintained targets of material issue to Production without delays.
Managed two cold storage warehouses of 100, 000 pallets
• Responsible for receipt and storage of fresh dairy and juice products as per Almarai standards.
• Directed three supervisors, 85 warehousepersons and support staff.
• Managed receiving, picking, and shipping of 60, 000 pallets per shift.
• Operated facility in compliance with Almarai standards for quality and health and safety as per HAACP, OSHA, and ISO-22000.
Major Projects/Achievements
• Maintained 99.5% service levels serving 45 depots across KSA and GCC region.
• Maintained 98% GMP score and safe working environment throughout the warehouse as per ISO 9001 standards.
• Developed checking system to attain 99.5% accuracy in product picking and dispatch.
• Maintained improvement in KPIs continuously through staff motivation.
Medical transcription
Developed the infrastructure for a new set up as stockist for M/s. Thermax Ltd.
Executed multiple functions as Commercial and Warehouse Manager, inventory control, supervision of receipt and distribution, assisting budget development, account receivables, liaison with Government agencies, all human resource functions including hiring, training, supervising, performance and compensation evaluation, staff development and welfare.
Managed complete operations of the Cold Stores, supervising a a task force of Stock Controllers, Auditors, Loaders, Warehousemen and Pickers, a total of 32 men per shift.
Supervising Distribution operations covering 28 depots all over the Kingdom, the Gulf states as well as Yemen, Eritrea, Libya, Lebanon and Egypt.
Co-ordination with Production and Planning departments as to depot allocations and availability of products within the scheduled Reefer departure times.
Supervising the documentation, Pick Lists, Final Issue Dockets and Reports using Proman system and co-ordination with the Transport Division as to availability of Reefers and other related matters.
Airline revenue accounting and revenue recovery.
Managed complete warehouse operations for different warehouses in the organization.
Managing a task force of 15 helpers and 6 drivers.
Managing an inventory of over R.O. 2 million in the Electronic and Home Appliances Division.
Initiated a better and coordinated distribution system for our operations all over Oman in the Hardware and Building Materials Division.
Managing Personnel and Fleet records of the Central Warehouse.
Arranging transportation and contract labour for receipt of Container cargo and subsequent distribution, in the IECC Tyres Division.
Initiated, developed and set up the MIS (MS Excel based) for better co-ordination between various divisions of the Organisation.
Procurement of certain C class items in the Hardware division.
Ensuring compliance with Central Excise Rules and Regulations, with regard to Documentation and maintenance of various Statutory records.
Supervising and maintaining all records as to incoming and outgoing material in accordance with Central Excise regulations.
Replying Show Cause Notices and representing the Company in cases requiring clarifications on the same.
Liaison with Central Excise Authorities.
Procurement of Packing Material and Wooden boxes as per Company and Customer specifications.
Responsible for switching over from a Manual system of Excise Accounting and Documentation to a FoxPro based Computer System.
