Logistics specialist
Alfanar Group
Total years of experience :9 years, 4 Months
• Coordinate with the sales team to open the outbound deliveries and thereby plan the vehicles accordingly.
• Negotiate rates with the 3rd party logistic vendors thereby providing orders to the best quoted ones keeping the business targets in mind.
• Create and maintain contact with vendors and customers to ensure timely delivery of goods.
• Ensure accuracy of all inventories.
• Maintain communication with the loading team and warehouse staff in order to ease the passage of shipment.
• Receive the incoming shipments and ensure both quantity and quality matches after the QC check.
• Proper arrangement of the warehouse and loading area for outgoing as well as incoming shipments.
• Assist the Sales team with inventory checks so as to run the show.
• Attending meetings with the management to solve different logistical problems and thereby trying to dispatch the maximum number of fleets.
• Providing daily dispatch report to the Management keeping in mind of the required daily targets.
Highlights
• Developed presentations and SOPs related to shipment creation, return order creation and stock transfers.
• Diligently complies with Grainger export policies, procedures and government export regulations.
• Enters export quotes and orders into SAP system compatible to the company’s product offering and foreign market suitability, ensuring unique foreign country-specific destination requirements are satisfied.
• Flawless execution of order entry which directly affects the Export Documentation produced, ensuring uninterrupted customs clearance at the foreign destination and a positive customer experience.
• Assists customers in the selection of Grainger product(s) while ensuring foreign compliance requirements are met as well as other country specific requirements.
• Accurately determine estimated delivery date per shipment, referencing product availability, inventory schedule, product lead time, DC fulfillment schedule, and multi-modal transport times. Coordinate with Field Inventory Specialists (FIS) to ensure delivery requirements are met and continually apprise customers of any delays in product availability due to vendor rescheduling.
• Support Over-Seas Export Territory Managers with quotations and developing relationships with key customers and partners with in-country sales representatives to provide superior customer service to key commercial accounts.
• Works effectively with others in a team based environment to accomplish organizational goals and to identify and resolve problems.
Highlights
Bestowed as ‘Employee of the Month’ twice in 2015 for my high productivity and standing high on monthly scorecard.
Assigned the task of training the new joiners by my Manager due to my specialization in some major process.
Responsibilities
▪ Handling the exports and leads in the Middle East region.
▪ Managing Market Research and identifying new potential customers in the Middle East and assisting
them with their Hydraulics and Stainless Steel component requirements.
▪ Coordinating with the manufacturers and arranging shipments till the end destination.
▪ Assisting customers with proper quotations keeping the Sales team in loop.
▪ Handling Order processing in SAP after receiving customer’s PO and Payment follow-ups.
▪ Coordinating with the forwarders and CHAs and ensuring timely arrival of shipments to the end user.
▪ Direct reporting to the Manager during monthly reviews and getting feedbacks on monthly
performance of the team.
▪ Conducting weekly coaching for the Export team and thereby helping them to achieve monthly
targets.
Highlights:
• Increased sales by $50, 000 through aggressive selling techniques during slow summer months.
• Rehashed 90 dormant accounts which brought about 22% increase on overall sales.
• Developed and implemented an aggressive sales campaign by gathering market trends which resulted
Specialization in International Business