Hussain Lakhani, Supply Chain Manager

Hussain Lakhani

Supply Chain Manager

Confidential

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Bachelor's degree, Commerce
Experience
15 years, 2 Months

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Total years of experience :15 years, 2 Months

Supply Chain Manager at Confidential
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since June 2016

• Responsible for the complete gamut of Inventory, logistics and Procurement functions for the company and to ensure that the right material is made available at the right time and place in the most cost effective manner.
• Provide procurement leadership to lead & oversee the procurement of Electronic IT materials & equipment.
• Implement the Organization’s purchasing policies, procedures and contractual arrangements to ensure the procurement function is carried out with maximum efficiency.
• Works closely with management and operations staff to provide up to date information about materials and systems election, thus contributing effectively to cost minimization.
• Responsible for appropriate supplier selection/bidding processes and negotiation of third party contracts including Drafting, Evaluation, Negotiation and Execution.
• Responsible for managing track of Tenders/RFPS/Renewals/AMCs and facilitating Bid Bonds and Performance Bonds.
• Develop tender evaluation methodology with input from the procurement cross-functional team and manage the tender process, including the communication with tenderers, participating in contract negotiations as required to resolve commercial conditions, ensuring value for money outcomes and facilitating the timely award of contracts.
• Coordinate with the warehouses, freight forwarders, and carriers for smooth import-export movement of goods.
• Adept at negotiations with freight forwarders on the RFQ’s and fixing of competitive freight rates for inbound and outbound shipments.

Senior Logistics & Procurement Executive at Archimedia
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • April 2014 to May 2016

• Responsible for the complete gamut of logistics and Procurement functions for the company and to ensure that the right material is made available at the right time and place in the most cost effective manner.
• Responsible to source, negotiate and purchase materials from both local and overseas vendor and obtain competitive pricing for more than 3 bids for specifications as directed.
• Well versed in managing multiple procurement projects in accordance to company, s strategic, financial and operational requirements.
• Responsible to prepare documents through software like Purchase orders, Goods receiving notes and Delivery notes.
• Coordinate with the warehouses, freight forwarders, and carriers for smooth import-export movement of goods.
• Evaluate vendor’s quotation to ensure that they are in line with the technical and commercial specifications required for the project.
• Resolve Supply, Cost and Quality, Lead time, Credit approval and invoicing issues with vendors.
• Verticals and levels like principals, vendors, carriers, freight forwarders, customs, warehouse, sales/Operations team and service centers.
• Reporting to the Director and responsible for end to end logistics and Procurement management.
• Adept at negotiations with freight forwarders on the RFQ’s and fixing of competitive freight rates for inbound and outbound shipments.

Inventory Management Specialist at BIN HENDI ENTERPRISES
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • November 2013 to March 2014

• Supervision of received inventory & stored in an efficient and economical manner, and maintain records in conformance with company policy in ERP system.
• Develop the company’s inventory management strategy with the aim of controlling costs within budgetary limits, generating savings, rationalizing inventory and maximizing available working capital.
• Monitor Procurement records both local and international procurement to ensure that each procurement request is fully and clearly documented as per standards.
• Controls inventory levels by conducting physical counts, reconciling with data storage system.
• Achieves financial objectives by preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Manage and maintain the companies Raw materials and finished goods inventory including recipes, stock profiles and stock locations.
• Run and analyze monthly physical inventory reports for each location and adjust variances, notify inventory deployment as required to prevent stock outages.
• Providing MIS reports relating to inventory of each location wise to the management
• Maintain monthly inventory report with graphical presentation to share the clear picture of available Inventory.

Inventory Controller / MIS Executive (ERP) at AL KHAJA HOSPITALITY UAE (Retail & F& B)
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • August 2010 to October 2013

AL KHAJA HOSPITALITY UAE (Dubai)
Inventory Controller / MIS Executive (ERP)
08-2010 to 09-2013

JOB DESCRIPTION:
 Coordination with all Retail & F&B outlets regarding sales, purchase, transfers, wrong punching, exchange and refunds
 Update item master and discount in outlet systems and server through Ms Dynamics Navision.
 Monthly sales reconciliation, resolving the variances and submission of final accurate sales report to group CFO.
 Making data accuracy and daily sales posting.
 Inventory controls, adjustments of special discounts and shortages in system.
 Updating the local company website by executing the SQL queries for monthly inventory closing and other detail.
 Making attendance report of all Retail outlet staff and submit to HR.
 Versatile with point of sales (POS) systems and software’s.
 Responsible for providing support for Ms Dynamics Navision, LS Retail, Purchase, Warehouse Application and resolving all related issues.
 Manage all Navision / LS Retail Projects across the Group.
 MIS reporting by using Ms Excel, Ms Access & Aloha at Operational and Client level.
 Generate timely and accurate reports for analysis. Creating MIS/ Dashboard report and presenting it to the concern Department.
 Implement and analysis data to create daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports
 Design/develop the agreed upon solution in MS Excel/ MS Access.
 Deliver end products maintaining quick turnaround times and highest quality standards execute quick turnaround work in MS Excel/MS Access which involves Database.
 Handling SQL queries for data manipulation and retrieve on SQL server.
 Managing the Monthly, Weekly & Daily Report Creating in MS-Excel and MS-Access through in depth analysis and producing the actionable information.
 Generating & maintaining day to day MIS Data and updating the management.
Determined required data by analyzing MS-Access databases and created customized reports.

Inventory Controller & Admin Officer at PREMIER DISTRIBUTORS PAKISTAN (Karachi)
  • Pakistan
  • March 2009 to June 2010

PREMIER GROUP PAKISTAN (Karachi) 03-2009 to 06-2010 Internal Auditor / Accounts Executive
 Perform duties as an admin office & Inventory Controller and verify accuracy in accounting and inventory records.
 Perform retail & Fnb auditing and compute concrete values for sales volume and sales trend.
 Visit Branches and Carry out systems auditing and figure out discrepancies and inefficiencies.
 Conduct cost analysis for marketing, promotion and customer service functions.
 Inspect if the Branches & production maintains minimum levels of stocks in quantities, as required.
 Make certain the Group records are accurate, updated and complete.
 Verify the sales and purchases accounts by compiling the bills and receipts and computing the amount.
 Draw comparisons with actual stocks present in the warehouses to verify inventory accounts.
 Analyze and evaluate the marketing systems and practices employed by the organization
 Determine the effectiveness of the implemented promotion plans and methodologies
 Make recommendations on altering the systems, procedures and methodologies to improve sales

Education

Bachelor's degree, Commerce
  • at Karachi University
  • May 2012

Completed Bachelors Degree from Karachi University.

Specialties & Skills

Procurement
Logistics
Cost Control
MIS Reporting
Inventory Control
Visual Enterprises
Aloha POS
Ms Excel
SQl Server 2008
Ms Dynamics Navision
Ms Access
Quick books

Languages

Urdu
Expert
Arabic
Intermediate
English
Expert
French
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Learning English Language (Training)
Training Institute:
Domino English Language Learning Institue
Date Attended:
January 2010

Hobbies

  • Snooker, Swimming