Manager, Stores and Procurement
Etihad Airways
Total years of experience :19 years, 5 Months
- Maintain a secure stores facility that achieves high standards of compliance
- Clearance in Customs of purchased goods
- Define, implement and control department processes and procedures
- Control of the conditions aircraft parts and materials are kept
- Monitor and review parts usage to plan optimum stock levels, considering shelf life, rotation, cost, lead time availability
- Continually review supplier performance to ensure meeting set standards; maintaining active suppliers to assure continuous operations
- Arrange for shipping in/out of parts/tools/equipment, monitor lead times, including items sent for repair/calibration
- Manage to have parts and materials available at any time and with sufficient quantity required
- Ensure all parts received meet the industry highest standards proven by documentation and sourced from approved suppliers
- Analyze periodically all warehouse activities and defining operational issues
- Collaborate with warehouse management to define action plans for solving operational issues and improving daily processes to avoid repetitions
- Monitor manpower usage in terms of cost vs. time and implement optimization actions
- Follow up on ongoing action plans to meet the projects` objectives and deadlines
- Organize periodic focus groups with participants from different departments, summarize results and discuss with management for action plans
- Monitor and improve warehouse optimization in terms of using manpower, space, stock displacement, stock type
- Control routine jobs and safety by performing daily audit; simplify repeated tasks wherever possible
- Communicate to warehouse supervisors and managers, discuss problems and provide consultation and advice to maintain and develop the standards
Ensured achieving supply chain specific targets by keeping contact with suppliers in regards to deliveries, analyzing cost and time effective modes of shipment, root cause analysis of late deliveries, etc.
- Planning and execution of procurement processes
- Analysis through RCA of delayed lines and actions to meet KPI’s
- Vendor performance assessment and improvement
- Maintaining clear visibility of on time delivery to customers
- Actions to improve on time delivery through best cost/result balance
Additionally:
- Fire Marshall
- Excel trainer (advanced level, quarterly)
- Taskforce member in various projects (w/h relocation, health & safety, environment, employee experience)
arranging packing instructions to warehouse, ensuring proper documentation is done in compliance with Customs regulations, solving customers issues regarding logistics/Supply Chain, contributing to improving the logistics/Supply Chain processes/procedures for smooth and painless operation.
- Sales order processing
- Communication with customers on order planning and execution
- Purchase orders conversion and processing
- Communication with factories on required delivery dates
- Documentation arrangements for customs clearance considering INCO-terms and payment terms (incl. Letter of Credit, Certificate of Origin, SASO, Certificate of Conformity from Intertek, Bureau Veritas)
- Logistics support for customers and suppliers
arranging export sales and shipping process, supporting it with logistics, documentation, operating with SAP software, arranging transportation, giving instructions to warehouse, arranging shipping from overseas warehouse, etc.
- Sales order processing
- Communication with customers on order execution
- Arranging packing details as per customer requirements, and as per container stuffing standards
- Preparation of shipping documents depending on country of destination customs requirements and/or payment terms (incl. Letter of Credit, Certificate of Origin)
- Nomination and/or advisory of freight forwarder to customers
- Solving any type of logistics issues faced by customers
- Creating timings and schedules for cashiers for best coverage during peak hours and special high customer flow days
- Extracting and analyzing sales reports, creating replenishment lists
- Managing distribution of petty-cash and minimizing it’s expense
- Backing-up cashiers by operating cash point, ensuring best customer service
- Opening/closing of store
- Daily depositing cash at the bank
- Ensure enough change is available at any time
- Authorization for exchange/refund
- Negotiation with suppliers
- Organization of production process
- Market study and product positioning, benchmarking and finding solution to increase market share
- Analysis of dealers territorial influence and redistribution of portfolios for a smooth market share, reducing internal competition
- Increasing sales portfolio through direct and indirect marketing tools
- Maintaining and developing relationships with existing dealers
- Operational and legal decisions and actions
4 first years scholarship.
Licentiate in Marketing.