Hassan Altaf

Looking after world class manufacturing standards implementation in E2E supply chain functions

Leading mechanical, electrical & civil maintenance of Unilever Pakistan foods factory. Responsible for site capex & projects execution while liaising with projects. Additionally looking after repair & maintenance material store

Lead for Icecream Category E2E product delivery. Heading a team of factory planners to ensure volumes delivery as per business need.
Key Projects and Achievements:
• Country Business Waste Champion: Development of Business waste loss tree category wise for Unilever Pakistan Limited - to identify areas of improvement.
• Capacity Utilization: Development of threshold model for Icecream category capacity utilization, determining revised thresholds, triggering investment requirements.
• Inventory Modelling: Implementation of Inventory planning model based on statistically calculated safety stock for FG, RM & PM - Icecream category resulting in PKR 200 million release from working capital
• Supply chain Strategy: Responsiveness project for developing strategy to reduce production lead times for A class finished goods - Lead time for more (LTFM)
• Low-Cost Business Model: Core member for implementation for Icecream category.
• SAP: Supplier service performance automation through SAP for automated performance measurement.
• Regional Category S&OP Meeting: Represent Pakistan in Regional Demand & Supply S&OP meeting for Icecream category for South Asia region.

Currently working as Assistant Manager Supply Planning for Ice-cream business of Unilever Pakistan Limited. Managing & planning output for a portfolio with 11 production lines, over 100 different SKU's & the largest Icecream business in Pakistan. Summary includes:

• Making the 18 month production plan with the production & warehousing constraints; driving the capacity analysis. Also utilizing mathematical modelling for optimization
• Ensuring the execution of subsequent monthly & weekly production plans for demand & supply reconciliation.
• Evaluated & ensuring compliance of the SKU-wise stock cover policy (by optimizing stock components of pipeline, safety, cycle, build & slack stock).
• Working with operations to ensure efficiency throughout the system including water & energy usage.

An on going problem solving role. Responsible for 6 Manufacturing & supply lines on plant and keeping the lines going at optimum levels, maintaining output & planned capacity utilization, liaising with Demand planning & sales department to ensure the availability of product to end consumer.

Current responsibilities & work areas are:

• Production Planning (Weekly & Monthly basis)
• Master production scheduling (MPS)
• Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) - Manual & SAP reports
• Raise & follow up Purchase Requisitions (PR’s).
• Pipeline Management as per the changing business needs & to ensure minimal losses.
• Capacity Planning - was involved in 5 years Capex for Ice-cream Business
• Corporate plan working for Ice-cream business - 2011
• Successfully delivered Launch volumes for Karachi region
• Developed mathematical models for Safety stocks calculation & Inventory classifications
• Coordination Leader of Ice Cream division for the purpose of coordination and troubleshooting of all issues regarding materials movement through different stages till conversion to FG.
• Key user of PP & MM modules of SAP for EFL Ice-cream business.
• Key person for the new business developments & changes. Coordination with the Brands, Sales, Finance and Plant teams for meeting the timelines.
• Working on development of the Supply Chain Planning, Process Maps and SOP’s as a part of the Company’s effort for ISO Implementation
• Working on developing the SCOR Model of Supply Chain for EFL as per the Supply Chain Operations Reference Model 9.0
• SKU rationalization for Icecream business - sharing detailed working with brands, finance & marketing for every SKU’s portfolio.

Worked as shift manager to understand & implement the following three projects in operations:

• OEE structure & loss tree development
• Machinewise costing & loss analysis
• Output reliability (OR) structure & loss tree