Supply Chain Manager
Conslidated Can Manufacturing co
Total years of experience :18 years, 6 Months
Profile: Ball Corporation is a provider of metal packaging for beverages, foods and household products, and of aerospace and other technologies and services to commercial and governmental customers. http://www.ball.com/
Key Responsibilities:
Department: Supply Chain Department
• Deal with production planning by developing schedules for production of products and labels aligned to customer requirements, shipping schedules and to maintain optimum inventory levels.
• Coordinate effectively with sales, operations, warehouse, logistics, procurement and quality teams for synchronized actions to deliver production plans.
• Work with the sales department in producing baseline forecasts, improve the overall accuracy of the demand planning process as well as to minimize business waste and optimize inventories.
• Maintain robust productive relationships with vendors/suppliers to manage orders and inventories of various materials and to provide best levels of service to ensure business continuity.
• Assure successful supply chain operations collaborating with cross functional teams comprising of sales, operations, procurement and finance to monitor performance and resolve all emerging problems and issues.
• Participate in the monthly Sales Inventory and Operations Planning (SIOP) process by generating the demand plan in coordination with sales, managing the internal demand planning process and owning the monthly rolling baseline forecasts.
• Monitor and ensure adherence by sale to deadlines for demand submissions and measure quality to assure achievement of level of forecast accuracy.
• Manage the finished goods inventory using appropriate business stock modeling tools to satisfy obligations under customer contract agreements.
• Produce monthly revised master production schedule (LL) to deliver optimum supply-demand balance in line with operational and inventory parameters in coordination with the operations department.
• Support effective and sound decision making by executing different supply scenarios, assessing cost implications and providing appropriate recommendations.
• Establish optimum inventory targets and planning parameters contributing to the optimum management of cash flows and service levels.
• Work closely with key accounts for review and resolution of issues related to slow moving and obsolete inventory to minimize potential losses.
Profile: Kimberly-Clark is a global FMCG company with leading brands in adult care, child and baby care, feminine care and family care. http://www.kimberly-clark.com/
Key Responsibilities:
Department: Supply Planning Department
• Supported the marketing teams across the GCC region in promotions and launch of new products as per schedule as well as planning phase-in and phase-out of products.
• Worked with the sales and marketing team and led monthly demand meetings to produce demand forecast analysis ensuring incorporation of agreed volumes and initiatives in the sales forecast.
• Monitored sales performance measuring actuals against forecast, identified risks and gaps and recommended effective action plans to address variances.
• Managed ordering of finished goods and packaging materials from vendors in Saudi Arabia and other countries - Turkey, Korea, China, Czech Republic, Colombia, UK, USA, Taiwan, Indonesia and Russia.
• Led weekly meetings with sales teams and distributors in Saudi Arabia and GCC regions to discuss the current month’s forecast, availability issues and formulation of appropriate action plans.
• Participated in weekly calls with sources to discuss and resolve supply issues and constraints and ensure availability of finished goods, raw materials and packaging materials.
• Generated and updated monthly and weekly production plans based on sales and customer requirements; owned master data settings of MRP in SAP and managed inventories of raw materials and packaging materials.
• Ran the MRP and generated purchase orders for suppliers, coordinated with suppliers for scheduling deliveries against purchase orders and ensuring adherence to agreed schedules and reviewed and processes suppliers’ invoices.
• Identified slow and non-moving items and coordinated with marketing and sales team for developing and executing action plans for liquidation of stocks.
• Developed and implemented processes and systems to simplify procedures and improve performance like daily planning report, MRP tool and RCCP tool.
• Participated in implementing SAP R/3 ERP system.
Profile: P&G is one of the largest global FMCG companies with a portfolio of brands in family, personal and household care products. http://www.pg.com/en_AP/
Assignments:
Department: Supply Integrated Planning Department
• Distribution Requirements Planning System Leader
• Master Production Scheduling System Leader
Key Responsibilities:
Distribution Requirements Planning System Leader
• Planned and coordinated shipments to export markets following up and interacting with marketing teams, business partners and the general office.
• Analyzed demand forecasts and worked with the marketing team in producing weekly distribution requirements plan to fulfill sales targets.
• Served as the single point of contact for the module for all interactions with company branches and other departments in the supply chain.
• Ran demonstrations with different scenarios to evaluate supply capacities in the long run and recommended action plans to maintain missed targets within the maximum accepted level of 0.5%.
• Ensured on time launch of new initiatives in the Near East, North West Africa and Pakistan and resolved all issues related to out-of-stock and inventory levels across distribution centers in the region.
• Supported the marketing team in executing promotions for new and existing products across the region.
• Developed and implemented action plans for achieving inventory targets for delivering the best customer service at the least possible cost.
• Participated in development and execution of programs to achieve cost saving targets and in initiatives to enhance capabilities of the planning team.
• Contributed to the integration of business processes and IT systems of several suppliers and customers through SAP to improve business process flows.
• Evaluated shortfalls in service levels and implemented action plans and countermeasures to achieve targeted standard of service to internal and external customers.
• Developed and implemented systems and processes which improved simplicity and enhanced performance of the demand requirements planning function.
• Led daily supply planning meetings and weekly availability meeting with all stakeholders ensuring flawless supply chain operations to support achievement of business objectives.
• Participated in lifecycle planning of products including phase-in phase-out (PIPO) by leading PIPO meetings and development of initiative tool to manage/control PIPO.
• Utilized the Drive out Unhealthy Inventory Tool (DITU) to identify non-performing inventories (NPI) and developed action plans to maintain NPI at less than 5% of the total inventory.
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Key Responsibilities:
Master Production Scheduling System Leader
• Planned and prepared daily production schedules for manufacturing supporting achievement of daily production target of assigned product lines.
• Created master schedules which defined the manufacturing sequence and lead time of each operation and scheduled workflows for each resource and operation to meet shipping dates as per sales forecasts or customer orders.
• Planned the sequence of manufacturing operations for various production lines to guide production workers and coordinated with department supervisors to monitor and evaluate status of assigned tasks.
• Worked with the operations team to achieve the SAP based Master Production Scheduling Performance (MPSP) standards.
• Monitored and expedited operations causing delays in schedules and amended schedules to account for unforeseen circumstances.
• Performed analytical studies of production performance and prepared production reports highlighting areas of concern.
• Reconciled customer demands with manufacturing schedules and facilitated rapid response to changing requirements.
• Conducted studies to evaluate manufacturing capacities, inventory levels and current orders and ensured delivery of predefined service levels.
• Supported advanced automatic replenishment program like distribution resource planning (DRP) systems using appropriate SAP modules.
• Managed SAP Master Data related to MRP parameters, bills of materials (BOM) and recipe & production version and conducted audits to ensure accuracy of the databases.
PREVIOUS ASSIGNMENST:
• Administration Assistant, SABIC, Saudi Arabia, November 2006 to October 2008 (1 Years 11 Months)
Worked in the Networks Department in administering, controlling and coordinating purchase requisitions, work orders, vendor invoices, time sheets of contractors’ employees and IDs of employees and contractors.
Participated in the recruitment of personnel for the Saudi Kayan project from online screening of applications through scheduling interviews of candidates, organizing interview logistics, preparing candidate’s files ensuring availability of all documents, attending/participating in interviews, preparing and completing recommended candidate’s files, performing salary calculations and preparing salary offer approvals, preparing job offers, medical test forms and employment contracts, data entry of the hiring process in SAP HR module, administration of the tracking system and production of recruitment related reports.
• Programmer, Arabian Pipes Company, Saudi Arabia, November 2005 to November 2006 (1 Years 1 Months)
Executed jobs related to database modification and control, generation of reports and process workflow, collection and analysis of statistics, actions related to meeting company requirements for improving/enhancing existing programs, human resources control and IT requirements.