Ibrahim Rashdan, Supply Chain and DISTRIBUTION MANAGER

Ibrahim Rashdan

Supply Chain and DISTRIBUTION MANAGER

Eli Lilly and Company

Location
Egypt
Education
Master's degree, Global Managemnet
Experience
26 years, 6 Months

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Total years of experience :26 years, 6 Months

Supply Chain and DISTRIBUTION MANAGER at Eli Lilly and Company
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since May 2010

 SUPPLY CHAIN AND DISTRIBUTION MANAGER NORTH EAST AFRICA HUB, SSA AND FWA COUNTRIES AT ELI LILLY AND COMPANY
DECEMBER 2010 - PRESENT
Responsible for comprehensive supply chain management, including sourcing, purchasing, transport, warehousing, distribution, and tenders, as well as leadership of a team of Eight resources, including 3 Logistic associates, 3 Warehouse Coordinators, 2 Order to Cash analyst dotted line reporting in SSC in Cork.
•Projects management:
Led a project of transformation from Air to Ocean freight for all imported items from global manufacturing sites to Egypt.
Led a project of change source of Raw materials from USA and France to Greece and Italy through creating a road map with the needed actions all over the implementation process
Chose the responsible, accountable, and consulted persons and follow up with all stakeholders, set the corrective actions, manage all pop-up issues, until finalization of all required tasks through the implementation process.
Led a project of Inventory management and high obsolescence at Moviento through Inventory Losses Issues diagnosis and implementation of solutions and follow up on status until solving the issue.
Led the Project of Charter shipments consolidation to Libya from many manufacturing sites to Benghazi because of the political instability situation through define risks, opportunities, roles and responsibilities to reach both important goals, deliver medicines to Patients and decrease cost of shipping.
•Supply Chain management:
Successfully managed decreasing lead time for imports to shelf from 55 to 10 days through effective management of a strategic products source change from France to USA, avoiding costly penalties and enabling contracted replenishment of hospitals.
Successfully Reduced the overall supply chain cost base through identification and implementation of improvement initiatives.
•Selected Accomplishments:
Generated saving in D&I $375K resulting from negotiating warehouse fees, freight fees……
Generated savings of $450K annually through renegotiation the price offer with Custom clearance agent.
Creating and Implement a new shipping process to Libya to deliver medicine to our patients in spite of political instability and high shipping cost which led to $0.75M saving in shipping cost per year.
Improved operational efficiency through effective management and governance of all company functions to address goals and performance requirements and facilitate cross-functional teamwork.
Improved logistics efficiency through effective management of logistics functions.
Effective leading of 8 people to manage sales and distribution of $75M across Egypt, Libya, Sudan and SSA.
Ensuring staff comply with all company policies, process, and procedures, and addressing any shortfalls.
Developed and implemented an action plan for improved management of distributors stock levels.
•Selected Accomplishments:
Generated Saving with $2M through avoiding tender penalties and loss of sales opportunities.
Decrease total value of expired Products received from Distributors from $1.5M per year in 2015 to reach $0.04M per year in 2017 until 2020.
Designed a new and detailed forecasting Model linked with the forecasting accuracy metrics of the company to ensure availability of reasonable days of stocks to avoid out of stock situation of inventory losses.
•People Management:
Manage, Coach, and develop Staff, work with employees to set goals in training and development, performance, and career planning.
Established annual team goals and objectives that aligned with corporate objectives, and effectively managed performance to achieve established goals.

DISTRICT SALES MANAGER
  • January 2005 to January 2010
SALES COORDINATOR at Eli lilly and company
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2003 to January 2007
Professional Medical Representative at E lilly and company
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 1997 to January 2003

Education

Master's degree, Global Managemnet
  • at ESLSCA UNIVERSITY
  • June 2011

MBA in Global Management

Bachelor's degree, Vetrinary medicine
  • at School Of Veterinary Medicine And Zootechnology
  • May 1995

BSC of Veterinary Medicine Cairo university

Specialties & Skills

General Communications
Leadership
Problem Solving
Planning
Strategic Thinking
FORECASTING
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
DATA MANAGEMENT
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
Continuous Improvement
Distribution Management
Project Management
Resource Management
Change Management
Strategy Setting
People Management

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker