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Muhammad Arslan Tariq,  Purchase & Logistics Manager

Muhammad Arslan Tariq

Purchase & Logistics Manager · Multi Keys General Trading L.L.C

United Arab Emirates

Master's degree, Logistics and supply chain management

Work experience

Total years of experience: 16 years, 3 months

Purchase & Logistics Manager

July 2018 - Present

Multi Keys General Trading L.L.C

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

July 2018 - Present

➢ Managing daily purchasing activities, supervising staff, and allocating tasks. ➢ Managing supplier relations and negotiating contracts, prices, timelines, etc ➢ Maintaining the supplier database, purchase records, and related documentation. ➢ Coordinating with inventory control to determine and manage inventory needs. ➢ Develop and implement purchasing and contract management instructions, policies, and procedures. ➢ Resolve vendor or contractor grievances and claims against suppliers. ➢ Represent companies in negotiating contracts and formulating policies with suppliers. ➢ Direct and coordinate activities of personnel engaged in buying, selling, and distributing materials, equipment, machinery, and supplies. ➢ Select carriers and negotiate contracts and rates. ➢ Research ideal shipping techniques, routing, and carriers. ➢ Work with other departments to incorporate logistics with company procedures and operations.

Company industry:
Construction & Building
Job role:
Purchasing and Procurement

Purchase & Logistics Manager

July 2018 - Present

Multi Keys General Trading L.L.C

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

July 2018 - Present

➢ Managing daily purchasing activities, supervising staff, and allocating tasks. ➢ Managing supplier relations and negotiating contracts, prices, timelines, etc ➢ Maintaining the supplier database, purchase records, and related documentation. ➢ Coordinating with inventory control to determine and manage inventory needs. ➢ Develop and implement purchasing and contract management instructions, policies, and procedures. ➢ Resolve vendor or contractor grievances and claims against suppliers. ➢ Represent companies in negotiating contracts and formulating policies with suppliers. ➢ Direct and coordinate activities of personnel engaged in buying, selling, and distributing materials, equipment, machinery, and supplies. ➢ Select carriers and negotiate contracts and rates. ➢ Research ideal shipping techniques, routing, and carriers. ➢ Work with other departments to incorporate logistics with company procedures and operations.

Company industry:
Construction & Building
Job role:
Purchasing and Procurement

Operations and Logistics Manager / SAF Concrete Blocks Manufacturing LLC

June 2017 - July 2018

SCP Group DWC LLC

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

June 2017 - July 2018

Responsibilities:
➢ Locate vendors of materials, equipment or supplies, and interview them to determine product availability and terms of sales.
➢ Process material requisitions and raise purchase orders to meet factory’s production requirements.
➢ Schedule the material for production with concern suppliers through coordination with project manager and commercial manager and help to arrange deliveries based on their call offs / requirements.
➢ Administer all import and export of goods, supervise delivery and manage distribution of all goods to various geographical locations efficiently.
➢ Develop methods and procedures for scheduling of raw materials from suppliers to support manufacturing in achieving customer demand and minimizing cost impacts to production.
➢ Develop and implement project execution strategy, ensure the implementation of quality control standards and cost control on project for on time completion.
➢ Monitor product import/export processes to ensure compliance with regulatory or legal requirements.
➢ Apply for the duty exemption through Ministry of Economy for all the raw material sourced for production.
➢ Resolve problems concerning logistics systems, imports and exports, and customer complaints.

Company industry:
Civil Engineering
Job role:
Logistics and Transportation

GCC - Operations Assistant

November 2015 - June 2017

SIG Middle east LLC

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

November 2015 - June 2017

Responsibilities:
➢ Interface with Product Line Planning Manager to plan and prioritize purchasing activities.
➢ Review planned orders, create requisitions for purchased items (Local & Intl), and manage approval process.
➢ Track order acknowledgement, prepare and communicate shortages and backlog reports, and provide visibility of potential interruptions to internal customers.
➢ Track orders (Local & Intl), and confirms system lead times, delivery dates, and costs.
➢ Assist finance and logistics staff in resolving reception and invoice discrepancies.
➢ Manage vendor relationships (e.g., third party logistics)
➢ Help to develop and implement new systems, best practices, inventory control, demand planning, and other optimizations to grow the business.
➢ Generate the Delivery Note based on pick note created and verify with customer through signature, then hand over the signed originals to Accounts Dept. on daily basis for Invoicing.
➢ Handle all cash / walk-in customers & keep the track of sales made & reconcile weekly with Finance team.
➢ Create new Item codes in the system, associate cost and copy into all relevant Depots and allocate suppliers accordingly.
➢ Stock adjustments (if required) and internal stock transfer adjustments to all GCC depots and provide support when required.

Company industry:
Distribution, Supply Chain & Logistics
Job role:
Construction and Building

Sales & Purchasing Supervisor

January 2015 - October 2015

Bateel International

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

January 2015 - October 2015

Key Achievements
➢ Created and implemented a training plan to re-train staff, minimizing operational inefficiencies.
Responsibilities:
➢ Assist team to achieve the weekly and monthly sales targets set by Area sales manager.
➢ Create Purchase requisitions based on current Inventory movements / levels, customer’s buying trend and weekly sales projections.
➢ Move inventory by scheduling materials to be moved to and from warehouse; coordinating inventory transfers with related departments.
➢ Maintain inventory by conducting monthly physical counts; reconciling variances; inputting data. ➢ Maintain storage area by organizing floor space; adhering to storage design principles; recommending improvements.
➢ To supervise that all environmental conditions as cleanliness, illumination, temperature, humidity emergency equipment's are maintained and parameters are logged as per schedule.

Company industry:
FMCG
Job role:
Purchasing and Procurement

Team Manager

August 2013 - November 2014

Welcome Break Services, UK

London, United Kingdom

August 2013 - November 2014

Key Achievements ➢ ERP implementation for warehouse and supply chain. Responsibilities:
➢ Stores Procurement: Contribute to timely procurement of store goods and services accordance with customer's needs. To monitor and control the reorder level of materials. To verify all the L/C documents of received material for payments
➢ Deport security/Operational management: Ensure that all activities and operations at the deported are conducted safely, with due security and in accordance with the objectives of the depot function. Ensure any chemical, dangerous goods and inflammables are stored and handled in accordance with the Dangerous Goods and Occupational Health and Safety Acts and Regulations. Ensure all necessary safety records and information relating to products up-to-date and that customers are aware of any special handling requirements of such products
➢ Team Contribution: Positive personal contribution to successful operation of the deport function. To participate in the development of staff into an efficient and effective and implementing continually improved quality service in line with site and customer needs. Correspondence with procurement team and Logistics Manager for the correct and exact deliveries.
➢ Vendor relation: Pursue excellence in customer relations through identifying and implementing continually improved quality service in line with site needs. Coordinating with Venders for the Material required on the basis of purchase order raised.
➢ Inventory: Contribute to development of achieving a minimum inventory investment along with continued service support to our department. This would include incorporating principles through supplier partnership arrangements to monitor and control the store inventories. Inventory control of over 5, 000 items
➢ Purchasing: Assist the Purchasing Section with positive support with a personal contribution in the procurement of goods and services. To coordinate with purchase department for the local purchase and foreign purchase.
➢ Training: Ensure that all stores staff is competent in the application of stores skills and procedure.

Company industry:
FMCG
Job role:
Purchasing and Procurement

store and inventory controller

February 2010 - July 2013

CJR, Oxford, UK

London, United Kingdom

February 2010 - July 2013

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Company industry:
Food & Beverage Production
Job role:
Purchasing and Procurement

Volunteer

May 2010 - December 2010

Oxfam GB

London, United Kingdom

May 2010 - December 2010

Worked on Amazon Moonsoon project

Company industry:
Non-profit Organization
Job role:
Management

Education

University of Sunderland

August 2014

August 2014

Master's degree, Logistics and supply chain management

United Kingdom

MBA in Logistics and supply chain management
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Association of Business Executives

August 2013

August 2013

Bachelor's degree, Business and Management

United Kingdom

Skills

Inventory Control
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Customer Service Skills
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Diversity
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People Management
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People Management
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Teamwork
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CUSTOMER RELATIONS
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CUSTOMER RELATIONS
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ERP
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ERP
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INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
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INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
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LOGISTICS
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LOGISTICS
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MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
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MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
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PROCUREMENT
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PROCUREMENT
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PURCHASING
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QUALITY
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QUALITY
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SAFETY
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SAFETY
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Import & Export
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Import & Export
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team management
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team management
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operations management
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operations management
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supply chain management
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supply chain management
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Teamwork
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Teamwork
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People Management
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People Management
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Diversity
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Diversity
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Customer Service Skills
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Customer Service Skills
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Inventory Control
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Inventory Control
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Languages

English

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Punjabi

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Urdu

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Hindi

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