Executive Logistics Manager
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Total years of experience :30 years, 1 Months
As an Executive Supply Chain Manager, i am building up the company stratigy in the supply chain side of the business, which contain 5 warehouses in 3 countries, for a big manufacturing & production / retail & whole sale /importing / stock & material management to achieve the best performance to deliver the availability of the stocks in both sides (retail end users & the production), , monitored by a professional KPIs System, with a strategy for an ambitious plan .
• More than 140 employees, managing a 22 K warehouse facility in 3 Racking system and a 27 MHE with adding to that a 5K display material warehouse.
• Running a high-volume daily distributions operation and implementing a new Warehouse Management System for the Company.
• Creating the logistics SOPs for the DC (distribution center).
• Handling the logistics budget as one of the KPIs.
• Assure the implementations of the SOPs.
• Running a huge operation like this in parallel with systemizes the FMCG Process is a great challenge I am enjoying it successfully.
• Controlling the storage strategy as per P&G quality elements.
• Managing the targeted KPIs and assure achieving the objectives planned.
• Implementing the WMS in the company warehousing operations, with all the faces of the warehousing management system implementation.
• Supervise the inbound / outbound performance and assure the ongoing improvements.
Handling the supply Chain & warehouses & distribution centers, Fleet management, importation and the transfers between branches for the company in different countries
• Strategically planning to improve the logistics sides of the business.
• Responsible for the availability on shelf for all the SKUs.
• Evaluating the retail logistics activities.
• Set up the e-commerce supply chain demands.
• Handling the Omni Channels systems.
• Set up and EMS for the retail operations activities.
• Build up the smooth picking methods for the costumer flows.
• Put a hand on the availability on shelf KPIs.
• Handling the dock to stock productivity.
• Set up a transfer system between branches for the IGs.
• Restructuring the manpower in the warehouses and the DCs.
• Create a man/ hour module to handle the cost of the logistics manpower.
• Managing the Import team for the reordering points and planning not to miss any of the items.
• Managing the delivery teams for the costumers’ satisfactions in a systematic way.
• Managing the warehousing & logistics teams with all the man-hour productivity.
• Handling all the B2B commitments.
• Building an affective costing module for all the points
• Creating the team spirit between all parts of the supply chain to clear any week point.
• Support the management in any promotion plans,
• Many others., like managing any services providers in the business, and others ..
Managing to open a new Logistics (warehousing) company; with all the related huge details and tasks.
From:
• Setting the company strategy and Defining and articulating the organization’s vision.
• Putting the Warehouse layout design with all the related details.
• Create the VAS area layout.
• Choosing the MHE (Material Handling Equipment) for the operations.
• Resource the MHE and the purchasing process .
• Creating the company SOPs.
• Org Chart building
• Work flow chart building.
• Job descriptions for all levels.
• Building the professional team to run the operations.
• Choose the international ERP System and supervise the implementation in a proper way .
• Choose the WMS that has to be compatible and ready with any interface with any other international operating system for any company.
• Putting up the Vision and Mission with the team for the company.
• Developing operational plans that support the company’s strategic direction and correlate with the annual operating budget.
• Developing and monitoring performance, to assure the long-term financial feasibility of the organization.
• Provide / apply valuable continuous improvement initiatives.
• Evaluate the teams and the staff’s performance on regular basis.
… many other, to the daily operational work and the costing modules & Financials statements for a group of shareholders & investors.
Now I am the Contract Logistics Developments Manager for El-Amir Group, which is the main: Distributer/service provider and 3ed part Logistics including the customizations services for P&G / Nestle & Pepsi in the whole Egypt region with more than 1600 employees, 220 trucks & more than 100.000 square meter of warehousing.
Some of the responsibilities :
Preparing the coming year’s strategy plan in the Egyptian economics market in contract logistics. As it is a very potential market in the country & the region.
Evaluating &Re-constructing the current situation (warehouses - fleet).
Interacting with the multinational brands in the market as a 3d part logistics & service provider.
Negotiating with the potential clients.
Preparing the SLA & the SOP s for the targeted clients.
others...
The warehousing operations I have managed is the first in Egypt and one of the biggest in the Middle East, its 43, 200 square meter.
Working 24/7, and with around 200 persons subordinators, 48 MHE unit, 6 level racking system, 52 docks leveler and a huge VAS area.
Opening such a project (considered the first in the country) is a big challenge holding a lot of experiences:
-Planning for the daily /weekly / monthly...Targeted orders (inbound & outbound), which is the biggest in the Middle East.
-daily follow up on the performance of all the parts.
-daily meetings with the clients, to assure the consumers satisfactions.
-daily evaluate the performance for and on each level; shifts / members /team of activity.
-Ongoing updates for the SOP and WI forms.
-Problems solving for every details in the daily operations.
-assure the safety & quality procedures are followed by all.
-daily reporting and analyzing all the steps, to get to the best utilization for man-power & man-hour.
Other….
The role was G.M. (Commercial General Manager) for big General Merchandise Retail chain stores with 3500 employees (200 in each store).
I was responsible for a quick retail actions for develop the sales and the performance in each store and restructuring the big stores as so after receiving the stores mainly in Cairo area on behave of the new company for the chain and manage it .
Manage all aspects of the showroom to ensure high standards in the layout, display, housekeeping and product information to convey the desired image of the brand and the Company.
Contribute towards overall sales strategy and prepare the sales plan and budget for the given brand
- Study market trends and consumer preferences to understand and specify customer expectations and adopt a suitable approach for brand management.
A lot of growth achievements been achieved with an average of 150% of the daily sales, and 90 % of clearing all the sleeping stock.
And ij the same time with my experiences in Carrefour as a commercial manager, helped the purchasing of the organization to get the best deals ever to achieve the fast/best financial cycle, with the highest financial margin + the commercial margin .
Helped the new company implementing the best stock &inventory control system .
A lot of other challenges and achievements.
•purchase, retail sales and marketing activities performance in accordance with product range survey, customer needs, corporate policy and standards as well as the annual company/section plan
•maintaining and developing suppliers database through holding negotiations on regular basis
•statistics/analysis:
•carrying out of price and range surveys on regular basis to keep the margin at the highest possible level and to achieve the targeted budget
•subsistence of various internal reports to the managements
•Annual/monthly forecast for product sales in physical and value terms.
•Logistics and warehouse:
•constant control of promotional and regular items stock
•warehouse arrangement on daily basis
•arrangement of deliveries (through weekly/daily plan)
•internal product movement and transfers
•Merchandising and sales activities:
•section design and products implementation
•product promotions
•labeling/pricing
•customer service
I owned and ran a private business, in different sides in the Egyptian market, specially in the fashion and clothes career and many others ...
I used to be an importer to variable accessories for the clothes factories from many places around the world but mainly from the far east .
I also was an importer for many other things to the local market .because of the huge business relations and personal skills in forecasting the market needs and of course managing my business.
it was a big cafe (34 employees ), thats why i didnt have time to run it with my main Merchandising in the fasion and importing careers .
the company was working in : Furniture, Electrical machines, and mainly in cares .
i was mainly work in the cars department .
sales in time share career .
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