Hesham Taher

• Lead end-to-end Procurement & Planning operations, managing AED 2.6B
annual spend across raw materials, spares, CAPEX, and services.
• Reduced the Excess & Obsolete inventory to be 1.5% from the total
inventory value
• Improved credit payment terms for 92% of spend to 60-90 days.
• Implemented e-Procurement and RPA to automate Source-to-Pay (S2P)
processes.
• Reclassified 50, 000 SKUs with advanced ABC/XYZ analysis and optimized
MRP parameters and recalculated more dynamic Safety Stock Levels, Re
Order Points.
• Leading Strategic Sourcing Program, mitigating the risks of single source
vendors, maximizing cost reduction opportunities, mitigated geographical
risk, and resulted in developing 34 new suppliers, covering 210M AED of
annual spend.
• Created a Vendor Performance Evaluation System, and established vendor
management process across a comprehensive vendor life cycle, which
resulted in maintaining 80% of strategic spend under vendors rated above
85% of performance evaluation score.
• Developed KPI dashboards and performance-based culture with 95% target
achievement rate.

Key Deliverables:
- Lead a team of 6 professional buyers & managing all procurement & logistic activities of all raw materials, spare parts, production consumables, machines, production lines, and maintenance services with overall department annual spend of 2.2 Billion SAR.
- Forecasted requirements & planned procurement schedules to meet variation of demand, ensured uninterrupted supply by optimizing processes and capitalized on cost saving opportunities.
- Reviewed existing systems & procedures and designed internal controls/quality audit checks for various operational areas for achieving higher operational efficiency, resource rationalization and cost reduction.
- Implemented key procurement strategies, ensuring that these strategies and schedules are aligned with organizational objectives and buyers’ commitment analysis.
- Deployed improvement plans with cross functional teams to improve quality and the delivery functions by leading time reduction, capacity allocation agreement and improving suppliers order management process.
- Planned and controlled all phases of purchasing, including cost-benefit analysis and reviewing the operational practices, identifying the areas of quality failures and processing changes for qualitative improvement.
- Formulated budgets for timely procurement of materials to ensure smooth execution of projects and planning, negotiating & finalizing orders and handling its documentation.
- Created new contact’s and negotiated prices with suppliers, supported the sales team by coordinating customer requisitions.
- Attained the optimal stock level by managing the accountability of inventory management.
- Developed key relationships with strategic supply partners and establish effective programs to ensure “best in class” supplier performance.
- Implemented change and develop new processes to better procure goods and services.
- Conducted business review meetings with key stakeholders to assess risk, review future strategies, and identify potential cost down and improvement opportunities.
- Developed and maintained healthy and mutually beneficial relationship with the suppliers, kept the suppliers informed of new products and services required as well as resolved vendor payment discrepancies and assisted with goods receipt reconciliation.
- Improved employee engagement by training and mentoring managers and associates about the procurement process control.
- Enhanced overall productivity by contributing in interviewing, hiring, and training personnel for procurement-related activities.

Key Achievements:
- Played a major role in managing over 2.2 Billion SAR in annualized procurement spend.
- Executed Procurement plans using SAP ARIBA Module and applied it in daily procurement activities such as Sourcing, Supplier Information Management & PO Automation.
- Functioned as Chemicals & Insulations Category Manager with a transverse responsibility of supporting other 10 business units among the organization, in terms of managing the contracting, sourcing, vendor development &evaluation.
- Saved yearly cost of 11.7 MSAR in 2020 &12.2 MSAR in 2021 as overall saving value (contract + non-contract)
- Increased procurement contracting trend to be 85% in 2021.
- Augmented the credit payment facility, where 85% of all procurement volume in 2021 was paid in credit of 60-120 days.
- Reduced single-source volume of 11.4 MSAR in 2021, by developing 13 new suppliers and covering 25 MSAR purchase value.
- Abridged the cost of the main raw materials of (XLPE-LV, XLPE-MV, LLDPE, Steel Wire, Mica Tape) by an average of 15% reduction, which resulted in a tangible reduction in cable cost.
- Applied the supply chain financing payment terms with the major suppliers of Copper & Aluminium which generated financial savings of nearly 2.2 MSAR.

• Handled sourcing, logistics, and customs compliance for copper, steel,
chemicals, machines, and spares.

- Significantly contributed to purchasing raw materials required for production in Egypt
Transformer Factory including metals like Copper, Silicon Steel, Aluminium, Transformer Oil.

- Purchased machines and equipment for Egypt, Zambia, and Nigeria Transformer factories.

- Instrumental in preparing different payments like L/C, CAD, T/T to vendors in coordination with Finance Department either it is advances or deferred payment.

- Made long‐term agreements with pre‐set delivery schedule according to a planned
consumption.

- Prepared procurement reports of quarterly procurements volume, savings reports, on‐time
deliveries and monthly KPI’s.