Asif Muhammed

• Managed Daily office operation, maintaining accurate records for hospital inventory.
• Responsible for purchasing materials, components, and/or services consistent with specified levels of quality, delivery, price and total cost.
• Effectively coordinate and communicate requirements with suppliers to ensure timely arrival of materials.
• Reviews purchase requisitions, and place orders to meet hospital guidelines, deadlines and logistics requirements.
• Negotiated pricing with regard to wholesale and contract purchases.
• Perform follow-up functions including resolutions of discrepancies in order fulfillment and invoicing.
• Resolves invoice discrepancies and researches savings opportunities.
• Processes requests for new vendors / items.
• Obtains detail quotes for all Hospital Departments.
• Worked with accounts payable in solving invoicing problems and new vendor set-up
• Communicating with all department representatives for supplies and budget guideline.

• Managing entire spectrum of functions of Purchasing & while ensuring efficacy in working and meeting of targets.
• Instrumental in handling & managing sales operations, developing marketing strategies, studying the elements in a sales promotion plan while considering consumer preference to drive business volumes.
• Playing a pivotal role in finalization of business proposals with partners and keeping track on the profitability of the company as well as business partners in conformity with organizational goals.
• Accountable for maintaining effective coordination and relationship between the Company and Business partners to ensure smooth execution of overall functions; also coordinating with other departments to ensure flawless working.
• Generating report on the progress and operations.
• Strategically devising and implementing strategies pertaining to business development and merchandising to enhance business volume and profitability.
• Selling additional visibility assets at Stores and generating additional revenue.
• Conduct regular review on cost effectiveness and performances of suppliers and vendors by random checks on regular supplier’s price with other supplier’s price.

• Taken care of buying activities of FMCG Food and Beverages for 30 plus stores across the Region.
• Adept at identifying and developing a vendor source for achieving cost effective buying operations and reduction in delivery time while improving quality & reliability.
• Looked after entire buying functions while ensuring adherence to time, quality and budgetary parameters.
• Judiciously scrutinized Category Role Matrix Report while ensuring accuracy.
• New Product Introduction, Monitoring of terms of trade and negotiating with vendors, Monthly promotional scheme negotiation
• Reviewing brand or supplier performances, category sale and vendor payments.
• Reviews and timely actions on weekly store visits.
• Coordinate with logistic department regarding dispatches of daily replenished merchandise.
• To seek and consider the interest of both internal and external customers at all times and to act as a primary point of contact.