Jai Fernandes, Transformation Project Manager

Jai Fernandes

Transformation Project Manager

Asyad

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Master's degree, Operations & Finance
Experience
9 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :9 years, 11 Months

Transformation Project Manager at Asyad
  • Oman - Muscat
  • My current job since August 2018

• Lead e-commerce orders fulfilment project.
• Implemented Digital Logistics platform for e-commerce orders fulfillment.
• Implemented Cash on delivery with multiple payment methods such as integration with mPOS terminals for card payments.
• Financial reconciliation and billing.
• Tableau report and dashboards.
• IT Integration with e-commerce market place.

Consultant at Self Employed
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2017 to July 2018
Manager Operations & Logistics Projects at BRF
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2014 to October 2016

OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

• Manage vehicles planning and stock allocation team.
• Manage freight payables.
• Manage delivery vehicles planning in system.
• Manage end to end outbound Operations in SAP for approx. 2000 daily sales orders. (Orders Stock allocation -> Vehicle routing -> Shipment creation -> Loading Request -> Loading Confirmation -> PGI -> Invoicing -> Driver Manifest)
• Provide an interface to control tower operations for delivery management and route compliance.
• Improved Cost and Performance KPI’s such as distribution cost per ton, on time delivery, OTIF, vehicle utilization, route compliance, warehouse productivity, space utilization, inventory freshness, inventory accuracy, case fill rate, inventory losses and storage costs.
• Aligned with commercials to implement daily operations dashboards related to customer service levels, orders fulfillment, Route compliance, and warehouse operations.
• Analyzed and automated the work processes/applications to process stock allocation and parallel vehicles planning for more than 2, 000 orders to complete the entire planning of deliveries and TSP Containers within 2.30 hours. The first batch of orders are integrated to WMS operations within 30 mins of sales order cutoff time. This improved the warehousing efficiency and productivity to load all the vehicles on time.



LOGISTICS PROJECTS:
• Global SAP INBOUND, OUTBOUND & INVENTORY in UAE, KUWAIT & QATAR.

o Kick-off meetings to present “to be” logistics process and analyze any potential gaps in operations.
o Manage Risk Register
o Map end to end process flows for stock allocation, handling rejections, vehicle routing, vehicle loading, loading confirmation, handling pick denials, PGI, Invoicing, pre-route post-route activities and reverse logistics.
o Align with commercials to implement shelf life batch determination strategy for sales channels.
o Work with IT to Implemented EDI’s messages to integrate SAP to WMS (Loading Requests, Loading Confirmation, ASN Requests, Stock Movements, Sales Returns and Production orders for co-packing operations)
o Sign-off blueprints.
o Work on SAP upload templates related to operations (Inventory, vehicles, drivers, customer shipments)
o Align with commercials team to finalize operations “Go-Live cut-off plan”.
o Test logistics integrated scenarios in SAP
o Provide training to key users on logistics systems.
o Support the local operations team to achieve and raise the performance bars after go live in Global SAP.

• ROAD NET in UAE, KUWAIT & QATAR.
o Delivered centralized Road Net for vehicle routing in all regions.
o Worked with sales to geocode all customers, collect information on delivery time windows, service time, and delivery priority.
o Implemented dynamic planning of customer deliveries.
o Trained the transport team on road net system and planning process.
o Minimize the vehicle planning time with 100% automated routing in Road Net.

• TELOGIS TMS
o Conducted operational feasibility with delivery drivers to demonstrate POC to management.
o Implemented Telogis to track customer service level and delivery route compliance.
o Trained the drivers and delivery helpers on work plan app.
o Trained the delivery coordinators to track the deliveries with the Telogis progression tool.
o Analyze the data to optimize the planning system and to improve delivery route compliance.
o Implemented dashboards to share delivery compliance information to sales on a daily basis.

• Road Net Territory Planning & GTM implementation.
o Worked with the commercial team to convert Van Sales to presales operations.
o Simulated sales routes in Road Net territory planning in line with the requirements from the sales team.
o Worked with the IT team to upgrade old GTM application to Android application, integrate with SAP order processing and Telogis driver’s work plan.

Education

Master's degree, Operations & Finance
  • at XLRI Jamshedpur
  • March 2011

Dubai campus at knowledge village.

Bachelor's degree, IT
  • at Sikkim Manipal University
  • October 2006

Specialties & Skills

SAP ERP
Project Management
Change Management
Logistics Management
SAP Inbound
Logistics Management
Business Analysis
SAP Outbound
Road Net Operations
SAP Inventory Management
Telogis Operations
Advance Excel
Project Management
Change Management
SAP EWM

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert

Training and Certifications

SAP MM (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2011
Valid Until:
December 2011
PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2008
Valid Until:
September 2008
Road Net (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2012
Valid Until:
May 2012
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2002
Valid Until:
November 2002