Supply Chain Manager
Deef Pharma. Al Qassim
Total years of experience :14 years, 7 Months
Key Duties and Achievements:
Planning
- Achieve optimum stock level through implementing Just-In-Time “JIT” approach within materials planning function which lead to improve materials availability and reduce inventory carrying cost.
- Successfully translate available materials into achievable production plan with min 95% conformance.
- Receive monthly rolling forecast, discuss it with marketing and sales team, and upload it in the ERP system.
- Translate monthly rolling forecast to monthly production plan and discuss it with production and concern departments. Production capacity, utilization, change over considered during production planning.
- Coordinate with marketing team for launching of new products, participated in launching 6 new products to the market during 2019 & 2020.
Inventory Management
- Receive of materials from suppliers and dispense it to production once required, and dispatch of finished goods after release from quality team.
- Make sure that all functions in warehouses are in compliance with current SOPs, cGMP, and SFDA guidelines.
- Maintain warehouse facility and warehouse stock rotation as per company’s policies.
- Optimize and control the levels of finished goods and raw materials to make sure they do not exceed the optimal budgeted levels.
Procurement
- Review and monitor of the annual purchasing budget.
- Achieve 98% On-Time-In-Full “OTIF” for the purchased Raw & Packaging materials.
- Accomplish the annual purchasing budget with average 10% cost saving.
- Review the purchase orders, supplier’s quotation, and approve it through ERP system.
- Assist sales and finance teams in tender pricing, costing, and delivery as per agreed lea-time.
- Coordinate with suppliers to improve the process of procurement and partnership.
- Review and approve purchasing contracts.
- Support Regulatory Affairs “RA” department with required supplier’s qualification documents like CEP and DMF essential for products registration or renewal.
- Review and approve supplier’s evaluation reports prepared by procurement team and monitor supplier’s performance.
Logistics
- Monitor and oversee the import permission process.
- Succeed to get required customs exemption for the imported items.
- Review and monitor raw and packaging materials import form foreign suppliers.
- Succeed to export ordered finished goods to related countries and deliver produced finished goods to related local distributers despite of international crises.
- Delivering 20% saving of transportation cost through singing a contract with new transportation company.
Supply Chain Department Management
- Develop the supply chain polices and related standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Direct, coordinate, assign, and monitor the work of individuals engaged in supply chain related duties.
- Collaborate with staff, other departments, senior management, and decision makers to share information, problem solve, to ensure achievement of the organizational objectives and goals.
- In charge of developing the overall company’s Supply Chain Strategies based on company growth and expansion.
- Define and analyze Key Performance Indicators “KPIs” and work with management teams and business plans alignment to meet or exceed performance targets.
- Define and drive operational best practices and promote operational efficiency through continual process improvement programs and operational benchmarking.
- Ensure all CAPA are as per agreed timeline.
- Conduct level 1 Audit in all area of Supply Chain.
Key Duties:
• Oversee the procurement of raw & packaging materials, CAPEX, and miscellaneous items..
• Review the purchase orders “POs” and approve it through ERP system
• Qualification of new and pre-approved suppliers.
• Review Procurement Key Performance Indicators “KPI’s” like On-Time-In-Full “OTIF” & cost saving.
• Ensure all procurement practices are being followed as per current SOPs.
• Review tenders and bids.
• Set & control the purchasing budget.
• Monitor the delivery of materials to ensure they are on time.
• Deliver cost savings for the company.
• Help to source alternative materials & Suppliers.
• Review the purchasing agreements and contracts.
• Monitor /supervise all Logistic activities.
• Implement an updated and improved strategy for inbound and outbound logistic.
• Ensure all practices are being followed as per current SOPs.
• Ensure all CAPA are as per agreed timeline.
Key Duties:
• Procurement of raw and packaging materials, CAPEX, and miscellaneous items.
• Receive materials purchase request (PR) from the requester to be reviewed.
• Send request for quotation (RFQ) to pre-approved suppliers and follow till receiving of quotations.
• Negotiate with suppliers for the best price, best quality, and appropriate lead time.
• Place the purchase orders through ERP system.
• Send the approved purchase order (PO) to concern supplier and follow till dispatching.
• Prepare the import permissions and customs exemptions for imported items.
• Follow with suppliers for the shipping documents and handle it to the customs clearing agent.
• Follow with customs clearing agent till materials received in company’s warehouse.
• Raise financial claims to the insurance company for the damaged goods during the shipping. and customs clearance process (if any).
• Follow with finance department for supplier’s payment.
• Oversee the in-bound and out-bound logistics.
• Monitor and oversee the import permission process.
• Review and monitor raw and packaging materials import form foreign suppliers.
• Succeed to get required customs exemption for the imported items.
• Oversee finished goods export to related countries and deliver produced finished goods to related local distributers.
Key Duties:
• Procurement of raw and packaging materials, CAPEX, and miscellaneous items.
• Receive materials purchase request (PR) from the requester to be reviewed.
• Send request for quotation (RFQ) to pre-approved suppliers and follow till receiving of quotations.
• Negotiate with suppliers for the best price, best quality, and appropriate lead time.
• Place the purchase orders through ERP system
• Send the approved purchase order (PO) to concern supplier and follow till dispatching.
• Prepare the import permissions and customs exemptions for imported items.
• Follow with suppliers for the shipping documents and handle it to the customs clearing agent
• Follow with customs clearing agent till materials received in company’s warehouse
• Raise financial claims to the insurance company for the damaged goods during the shipping and customs clearance process (if any).
• Follow with finance department for supplier’s payment.