محمد المهدي El Hjouji

• Responsible of analyzing revenue and cost streamlines which allows identifying and monitoring areas of marginal improvements financially and operationally.
• Monthly reporting total spend and material consumption cost variance analysis (purchase price, volume, currency and efficiency impact) compared to budget and supervising action plans for cost reduction.
• Monitoring the international commodities market and analyzing trends.
• Establishing and monthly reporting KPIs for each department while conveying comparative analysis with Budget and previous year.
• Preparing and reporting detailed data-driven divisional business reviews to senior management, through comparing Crown Emirates KPIs to the regional performance of each plant, in order to assess improvement projects.
• Creating and developing analytical models for procurement and production planning based on supply/demand forecasts to reduce working capital and enhance line production efficiency.
• Preparing the yearly financial procurement budgets BUD and quarterly Rolling Forecasts RFQ in close collaboration with finance department.

• Managed and standardized all planning and procurement activities for raw materials and packaging materials through automation while optimizing the inventory levels and developing just-in-time suppliers.
• Periodically negotiated contracts with suppliers to achieve best customer service, at lowest total cost of ownership, taking into account sales forecast, plant capacities, technical and quality constraints.
• Constantly interacted with commercial, production, quality and engineering departments to ensure cross-functional synergy in achieving short term and long term objectives.
• Managed and evaluated performance of external partners (suppliers, sister plants, transportation companies, shipping lines and clearing agents) to ensure compliance with established Crown Operations processes.
• Monitored raw material and finished goods life cycles to reduce slow-moving stocks.
• Initiated and actively contributed to Continuous Improvement projects in Supply-Chain and Commercial activities including optimization of logistics dispatches (25% trailer utilization improvement) and label change optimization (time reduction by 20% through optimization of production planning and sequences) using Six-Sigma methodology.
• Prepared the yearly financial procurement budgets BUD and quarterly Rolling Forecasts RFQ with in depth variance analysis and scenario comparisons in close collaboration with finance department.

• Supervised production operations in line with internal policies and procedures, while implementing best practice processes.
• Revised and implemented maintenance procedures in all defective stations within PET3 in collaboration with maintenance department.
• Analyzed the bottling production line PET3 and contributed in enhancing its productivity rate by 15% using DMAIC, PARETO, fish bone diagram, critical path analysis and design of experiment DOE methodologies.
• Identified and supervised the allocated direct and indirect cost drivers using the Activity Based Costing (ABC) approach in collaboration with the accounting department.
• Exercised quality checks at various production stages of different products to ensure the conformity of finished product to all specifications.