Jafar Banat, SUPPLY CHAIN CONSULTANT

Jafar Banat

SUPPLY CHAIN CONSULTANT

Bace Partners Consultants

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Bachelor's degree, B.A. IN ECONOMICS,
Experience
26 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :26 years, 2 Months

SUPPLY CHAIN CONSULTANT at Bace Partners Consultants
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since January 2022

• Deliver procurement advice to the clients
• Create appropriate bids for new projects.
• Support clients relationships with suppliers and negotiations.
• Communicate progress between the project team and clients.
• Advise on compliance with contracts
• Manage deadlines and deliverables to clients.
• Report projects results and present recommendations, including continual evaluation on projects performance against budget and deadlines, and implement corrective actions if there are variations
• Evaluate the clients existing business process, identify gaps, issues, impact on business.
• Design and implement solutions driving change in operations process, SLAs, SOPs, KPIs, OKRs to improve performance.
• Identify opportunities, areas of improvement, and document the proposed changes as well as the reasoning and
anticipated impact.
• Assist clients in budging their end-to-end supply chain and logistics operations
• Develop appropriate tools, programs to increase effectiveness and efficiency
• Train client staff on new tools and programs.

Logistics And Supply Chain Manager at Saudi Bell Group
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • October 2019 to October 2021

LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER
• Created supply chain and logistics sections
• Created the supply chain / procurement policy and processes
• Negotiated and obtained best rates, payment terms from vendors
• Established the Vendor Management system, policies and processes
• Managed the Demand and Supply Planning
• Reorganized the warehouse operations as per best practices
• Inventory management: periodic count and reconciliation
• Liquidated the non-moving and project left-over inventories
• Revamped the fleet: repair, disposal, and replacement. Introduced diesel-engine vehicles to save on fuel costs.

LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER at Saudi Telecommunications Co.
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • July 2013 to June 2019

• Managed a 5, 000 square meter warehouse holding inventory worth over SAR. 1 billion.
• Managed, oversaw, and coordinated the efforts of a warehouse team consisting of 45 members. Managed shipping and delivery operations of over 300 daily shipments.
• Oversaw all the warehouse management, inventory management, and budgeting of the facility - Vendor and Contracts Management
• Demand and Supply Planning
• Headed over product recalls and product return management processes
• Coordinated and handled all third-party delivery contracts (third-party contract management)
• Oversaw all shipping (import, export, customs clearance) and transportation management initiatives
• Chosen to represent the supply chain team in the old inventory cleanup project committee that led to liquidating all slow and non-moving products

LOGISTICS MANAGER at Etihad atheeb telecom
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2010 to March 2013

• Managed over third-party warehousing holding inventory worth approximately SAR. 150 million.
• Oversaw inventory and delivery services contracts. Duties included warehouse and inventory management, budgeting, order processing, delivery management, product recalls, and contract management.
• Assisted with supporting sales operations initiatives
• Created and led outdated/returned routers refurbishing and reinstating into inventory and sales that saved
purchases of over SAR. 3 million

REGIONAL WAREHOUSE MANAGER at Frito-Lay (PepsiCo Inc.)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • March 2007 to September 2009

• Managed a 10, 000 square meter warehouse, functioning 24 hours a day- 7 days a week, which stocked inventory worth SAR. 500 million.
• Managed three warehouse teams consisting of 100 members on three separate shifts. Duties included warehouse
management, inventory management, budgeting, order processing, delivery management, product recalls and
disposal, and product return management.
• Management the inventory of Raw and packaging materials.
• Responsible for relocating Madinah regional warehouse with zero business interruption

REGIONAL LOGISTICS AND DISTRIBUTION SPECIALIST at General Motors Middle Eas
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • July 1996 to September 2006

• Assisted with client orders, and managed over the planning of production and shipping.
• Assisted by providing customer service support, order processing and delivery management
• Participated in inventory management, production planning and sales support initiatives
• Assisted with shipping management efforts (3PL, import, export, customs clearance. and transportation)
• Assisted with preparing invoices and client orders, managed over production and shipping planning. Duties included customer service support, order processing, delivery management, and inventory management, production planning sales support and shipping management.

Education

Bachelor's degree, B.A. IN ECONOMICS,
  • at Bangalore University
  • June 1996
Diploma, Diploma in Computer Applications/MS Office,
  • at Marian School for Computers
  • June 1996

Specialties & Skills

Negotiation
Time Management
Team Motivator
Project Management
Problem Solving
SUPPLY CHAIN
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
Vendor Management
Problem Solving
Analytical Skills

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Arabic
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English
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