Procurement and Logistics Analyst
Procter and Gamble FZE
Total years of experience :17 years, 0 Months
Procurement Analyst:
Purchasing of Flexibles and Rigid packaging Materials for P&G MEA ( Middle East, Europe and Asia )
Manage all procurement files to ensure they meet all certifications required by the government and all customers
Influences stake holders (Procurement Operations team, Planning team, R&D packaging team) on the strategy and executes the strategy with speed
Understand cost drivers, do competitive bench-marking and constantly work to improve value delivery to the organization
Improvement Plans, Payment Term Extensions, Inflation reductions, complexity reduction
Strategically manage relationships with key and potential suppliers to develop/maintain joint business plans.
Develop and implement sourcing strategies for chemicals in EMEA region; in collaboration with global stakeholders.
Link and leverage external/internal capabilities to meet business needs and strategically drive best total value.
Run should cost analysis, benchmark, negotiate & conclude commercial agreements in line with policies/guidelines.
Establish contingency plans and ensure sound commercial judgments in risk assessments.
Contribute in building organizational capability through on-boarding, coaching, training, and mentoring.
Logistics Analyst:
Smoothly carry out the flow of products from the factory to the customer.
Managing DPS (Direct Plant Shipments) for entire AP (Arabian Peninsula).In charge of arranging, verifying and providing shipping documents to distributors for customs clearance.
Ensuring smooth flow of shipping and import documents with compliance to the destination customs and customers.
Negotiating demurrages and port charges with distributors and shipping lines to generate cost savings and achieving zero demurrage.
Demand planning with alignment to sales and order management.
Performing order entry management using SAP, analyzing the correctness and accuracy of details of the orders.
Communicating the final approved Orders with the plants as per calendar to enable timely execution of the shipment.
Responsible for maintaining and distribution of the shipping instructions for various lines.
Ensuring and verifying the completion of standard requirements of orders received from the customers
Incorporating and driving the policy of RTFT (Right Time First Time) documentation.
Responsible for MIS like OTD (On Time Delivery) for plants and OSR (Order Status Report) for the customers, analyzing repetitive problems and applying systematic fix for the root causes.
Daily interaction with the P&G plants across the globe to resolve any document issues.
Export Shipment Back-up of logistics assistant for Exports
As a FICO Consultant Is was involved in support to the end users of different sectors and regions in the group Companies.
Creation and Manual testing of General posting and Parked Document and Feedback analysis and intensive training in FI Sub Modules GL, AP, AR & AA.
Creation of various payment terms as per the client specific requirements for Accounts Receivables.
Creation of Asset master data and processing the Asset transactions like acquisitions and transfer and retirement and process the year end and month end activities.
Involved in configuring the required settings for VAT with respect to Vendors (AP-MM) & Customers (AR-SD).
Involved in creation of Cost Centers and creation of Assessment cycle and execution.
Creation of Internal orders and transfer of Internal order cost WBS element and settlement of Internal orders
Involved in creation of profit center Accounts and Profitability Analysis (CO - PA).
Used Report painter to generate reports of PCA needed by the Business Owner.
Tested Z-Transactions as per the user requirements and worked closely with users for creating scripts for Quarter/ year-end procedures.
Preparation of Functional specifications for modification and enhancement of standard reports. Development of Custom Reports as per client requirements.
Enhancements and Development of Reports according to business requirements.
Guiding users in Report Generation, Variant & Layout Creation and Month End/Year End processing.
Supported in resolving day-to-day end-user issues pertaining to FI (sub-modules include General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Asset Accounting)
Providing the first level support on SAP FICO issues raised by end users.
Created new roles for ECC 6 systems: FI, CO, TL, HR, MM, and SD modules, based on concepts of task roles and position roles
Responsible for gathering business requirements, participating in system design, configuring and testing existing system and providing post implementation support for enhancements to the current system.
System configuration and testing in the areas of FI-GL transactions, configuring adjustment accounts for GL, AP.
Configured settings for Company code, posting period variant, assigned document number ranges, tolerance groups for customers, G/L accounts and users.
Maintained required settings in Accounts Payable viz. Configuration for payment program, Payment terms.
Configured End to End AP module including the Vendor Groups / Number Ranges, Automatic Payment Program, Configured Special Ledger Withholding Taxes, Check Settings Configured AP integrations to MM for various material movements (Automatic Account Assignments), Worked on LIV (Logistics Invoice verification), linking of Vendor documents with EDI.
Created & Maintained Customer Master data along with, Customer Groups, Payment Terms, Reporting, AR Aging.
Have worked on Partial, Residual Payment types.
Meet regularly with Business Owners to evaluate and or suggest changes in processes that will enhance the use of SAP.
Preparation of Business Processes Requirements Analysis and User Requirement Specifications.
Interaction with Client Business Users for Requirements Gathering and Analysis.
Participate in Super User meetings, preparation of meeting materials and delivering of presentations as required.
assets and the future depreciations etc., - Support and Maintenance of the System
Handheld major Configuration tasks of the Organizational structure of GL, AP, AR, CO-CCA.
Coordinated the integration experts of FI/CO with SD, MM, based on functional requirements, automatic account assignment, maintaining the revenue account determinations & revenue recognition which is useful in integrating AR-SD.
Configured required settings for automatic postings to FI-Payroll area, (FI-HR Integration).
Provide the technical oversight, input and supervision to coordinate the staff support to, delivery of, and implementation of, all logistics support systems according to Logistics policies and procedures.
Ensure that local market surveys are regularly carried out, to ensure a full knowledge of the availability and price of local items.
Ensure that all procurements are tracked and recorded to identify items that should be part of a pre-approved tender process, and ensure that open and free competition for procurements is adhered too.
Ensure timely reporting on stock status, to help Program staff with planning of stock replenishment and that tracking through to end-user has occurred.
Capture, plan and regularly update preparedness reporting for the logistic systems in place at your mission to include a current Logistic Concept of Operations.
Coordinate the delivery of training for national staff to increase their responsibilities in order to build capacity, and ensure sustainability of programs.
Ensure that staff supervised by you are evaluated regularly, trained and/or mentored in a structured accountable manner, and written records of such are retained.
Financial Management
Master of business Administration - Specialization in Finance.