Ayman Mokhtar

Cost savings and efficiency by reducing inventory and procurement costs through strategic vendor negotiations and bulk purchasing.
•Managing relationships with 1500+ suppliers, ensuring quality, timely delivery, and cost efficiency.
•Lead supplier evaluation and selection processes, improving vendor performance.
•Negotiating favorable contracts with key suppliers, while maintaining quality.
•Drafted and reviewed procurement agreements, minimizing legal and financial risks.
•Streamlined procurement workflows, reducing order processing time.
•Ensuring compliance with company policies, industry regulations, and ethical sourcing standards.
•Mitigating supply chain risks by diversifying suppliers and creating contingency plans.
•Optimizing inventory levels, reducing carrying costs while maintaining stock availability.
•Collaborating with stakeholders to forecast demand and align procurement strategies.
•Lead MRP and procurement teams to implement a new ERP system (MD365).
•Ensuring that raw materials are available in sufficient quantities to meet production demands and that work orders are processed correctly by suppliers.
•Managing inventory levels and for ensuring that materials are used efficiently.
•Identifying opportunities to reduce costs through more efficient use of raw materials or by reducing waste in production processes.
•Making procurement plan for categorized and classified items.
•Reducing costs by negotiating better rates with vendors and implementing new sourcing strategies.
•Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and requirements.
•Lead and manage a team of 4 sections and their staff, with an overall total of 28 employees, whom I classified by different scopes of items based on their abilities and experiences using objectives and KPIs.
•Responsible with my team to ensure local and imported items like raw and packaging materials, feed materials and additives, poultry drugs, vaccines, agricultural needs, spare parts (mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, handling units, hand tools, generators, means of transportation, painting materials, constructions needs, plumbing, steam, fittings, iron, cooling and heating systems, machineries, production lines, operating systems… etc.), IT, office furniture, food for site labours… etc.

• Delivered sustainable cost leadership by negotiating long
term contracts and consolidating supplier base, achieving
15% annual savings while safeguarding quality and
compliance.
• Secured supply continuity for critical inputs (raw materials,
feed, pharmaceuticals, packaging .. etc.) with an annual
spend exceeding $70M, mitigating risks of market volatility
and single-source dependency.
• Transformed procurement operations through the
implementation of Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP, cutting
order cycle time by 30%, increasing transparency, and
enabling data-driven decision-making for executives.
• Strengthened supplier ecosystem by managing
relationships with 1, 500+ vendors, introducing structured
evaluation frameworks that improved vendor performance
by 25% and reduced lead times.
• Optimized working capital by reducing inventory carrying
costs by 20% while maintaining 98% stock availability,
directly supporting production efficiency and financial
health.
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Aligned procurement with corporate strategy by
collaborating with production, finance, and logistics teams
to integrate demand forecasts, ensuring supply chain
resilience and supporting capacity expansion.
• Built organizational capability by leading and mentoring a
team of 30+ employees across functional sections, instilling
KPI-driven culture and enhancing cross-functional
collaboration.
• Protected business interests by drafting and reviewing
procurement agreements, minimizing contractual risks, and
ensuring compliance with governance and ethical sourcing
standards.
• Drove operational excellence by introducing waste
reduction initiatives, improving raw material utilization, and
lowering production losses.

• Secured uninterrupted production by aligning supply
schedules with MPS and sales forecasts, eliminating costly
downtime.
• Enhanced financial performance by improving inventory
accuracy to 99% and reducing carrying costs by 20%, freeing
up working capital.
• Established planning discipline by developing best
practice MRP policies, increasing forecast reliability and
cross-departmental efficiency.
• Supported strategic growth by integrating planning with
sales and operations, ensuring supply readiness for capacity
expansion.

• Find out suitable sources of supply.
• Ensuring the purchase of needed items with a suitable level of quality, the
lowest price, calculated quantities, planned delivery dates, and a convenient
place of delivery.
• Lead and manage a team of twelve specialists and two supervisors, whom I
classified by different scopes of items based on their abilities and experiences,
using objectives and KPIs.
• Complete daily follow-up with the staff, monitor their reports, and instruct them
according to priorities in order to avoid any delay in the lead time.
• Giving a lead time for each PR while taking into account the item category, stock
level, consumption rate, delivery time, and market availability.
• Doing extreme efforts to avoid dealing with sole suppliers to avoid their chances
of overpricing or imposing their conditions.
• Hold a weekly open meeting with the staff to discuss any opportunities, risks,
suggestions, or problems.
• Revise and approve POs after giving a hand in the negotiation process before
getting the approval of Procurement manager.
• Follow up with the staff to ensure closing POs safely until GRNs.
• Open a hotline with production planning, MRP, warehousing, financial, and
technical people to facilitate the transfer of any needed data and solve any
problems smoothly.
• Conduct spend analysis to identify opportunities for cost reduction.
• Manage supplier relationships to ensure quality, delivery, and cost targets are
met.
• Monitoring the performance of suppliers to ensure that they are meeting quality
standards and delivering products on time.
• Establish Approved suppliers list with classifications of ABC.
• Prepare reports and presentations for senior management.
• Ensuring that conditions are met for the annual ISO revision.
• Key user with IT department of all concerns related to Microsoft AX Dynamics
2009, 2012, D365.

• Reduced operational bottlenecks by cutting lead times by
20% through supplier performance monitoring and
proactive negotiations.
• Built procurement capability by directing a team of 14
specialists, embedding KPI-driven culture and continuous
improvement practices.
• Protected business continuity by diversifying supplier base
and implementing weekly risk/opportunity reviews.
• Delivered measurable savings in indirect procurement
categories, directly improving cost structure.

• Built strategic sourcing intelligence by establishing
supplier databases and benchmarking systems, enabling
leadership to make informed procurement decisions.
• Enhanced negotiation leverage through market analysis
and supplier performance tracking, directly contributing to
cost reduction initiatives.
• Supported corporate governance by standardizing
sourcing processes, improving transparency, and reducing
compliance risks.

•Responsible for issuing inquiries to foreign suppliers.
•Following up suppliers offers with factory engineers.
•Preparing prices comparison between the suppliers.
•Issuing up purchasing orders.
•Following up time of shipment of the orders.
•Following up effecting payment to suppliers (LC, CAD, TT).
•Preparing of foreign tenders (Public, Limited).

• Handled international procurement, securing competitive
pricing and ensuring compliance with import/export
regulations.