Category Manager
Total years of experience :15 years, 0 Months
Budgeting and Forecasting
* Inventory Management
* Distribution Planning
* IT skills - MS Office, SAP, APO, Tableau and SQL
* Analytics and data mining
Careem, Jeddah KSA
Sales and Operations Planning
* Demand, Supply, Production, Material Planning
* New product launch
* Leading cross functional process improvement initiatives
* Collaborative and consensus building skill
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Rough Cut Capacity Planning to commit sales volumes for annual operating plan
* Lead the Supply Review as part of monthly S&OP cycle
* Prepare and signoff of Master Production Schedule with Operations Manager
* Align weekly detailed schedule with Production managers to support service level to sales team
* Decision on Build/Chase strategy to balance production and manpower capacity over 3 months’ horizon
* Monitoring production outputs to accurately map exhibited capacities on a quarterly frequency
* Review of Slow Moving, Obsolete and near expiry materials and recommendation for liquidation
* Responsible for Master schedule adherence, and aligning with Operations for contingency planning
* Working closely with Projects and Maintenance team for scheduling capacity enhancement projects
* Supporting Make to Order export business by servicing orders within lead time of 1 month
* Packaging material planning to support weekly production schedules
* Minimizing write offs by supporting phase in/out of SKUs or change in artworks of packaging material
* Monitoring and communicating supplier performance for Quality and Delivery
* Inventory Management for finished goods and packaging materials as per stock norms in inventory policy
Noteworthy Achievements:
* Debottlenecking of critical production line to support extra sales worth 5 million SAR
* Use of Liner Programming Problem technique to maximize profit of cream biscuits line by 3 Million SAR annually
* Meticulous planning to phase in/out SKUs with grammage reduction as a part of VAT impact mitigation project
by minimizing material write off cost
* PM days of inventory reduced from 25 days to 21 days
Demand Planning (Agro Chemicals)
Noteworthy Achievements:
* Forecast accuracy improvement from 62% to 71%
* Service Level Improvement from 92% to 98%
Demand Planning
Noteworthy Achievements:
* Implementation of 4 step integrated S&OP process
* Forecast accuracy improvement from 64% to 75%
* Stock Shortage reduction from 6.5% to 0.5%
* Kinder Joy stock freshness improvement (Stock
Demand Planning
Noteworthy Achievements:
* Awarded as the “Icon of the Quarter” for the period Apr to Jun’11
* Design & Development of user-friendly web enabled Forecast System for sales teams
* Design & Development of Query Resolution system, a web enabled platform for resolving sales team queries
Demand Planning
Noteworthy Achievements:
* Setting up Demand Planning Process from scratch for 2 Make-to-Order Businesses
* On time delivery performance
Emphasis on data driven decision making and process-oriented approach
courses: Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) from American Production and Inventory Control Society (