Mohammad Karam Hafeez Kidwai

- Successfully managed all aspects of the Supply Chain from the inception of customer orders and internal demand, through final product distribution, with overall responsibility for Planning, Procurement, Logistics, Inventory, and Operations to support the organization's average annual revenue of 200 million dollars.
- Developed and implemented an integrated S&OP process, aligning sales, marketing, finance, and operations teams to improve demand visibility and optimize inventory levels.
- Leveraged supply chain knowledge to drive the creation, modification, and implementation of planning, procurement, and order processing strategies, which resulted in improving KPIs by 25%.
- Utilized advanced planning systems and analytics tools to analyze demand patterns, market trends, and historical data, enabling accurate forecasting and inventory planning.
- Conducted regular demand planning meetings with sales and marketing teams to review market trends, promotional activities, and new product launches.
- Implemented demand-driven replenishment strategies, resulting in a 15% reduction in stockouts and a 10% improvement in on-time delivery.
- Achieved cost-effective procurement outcomes by establishing strong relationships with vendors and partners, and negotiating well.
- Leading digitization/automation by conceptualizing and automating processes.
- Successfully automated 15+ processes, interlinking and streamlining all the sections of the business resulting in reducing the processing time by 20%.
- Implemented RPA (Robotic Process Automation) in various supply chain processes to improve efficiency by 30%.
- Collaborated with suppliers and logistics partners to optimize inventory holding and improve supply chain responsiveness.
- Developed and delivered training programs to enhance planning capabilities across the organization.

- Developed an inventory standard and consistently achieved 99.99 % stock accuracy.
- Perform inventory analysis of fast, slow, and non-moving articles which culminated in increasing the healthy stock by 40%.
- Blueprinted the processes, warehouse structure, and system for a new principal whose business evolve around Loaner & Direct orders.
- Ensure inventory control needs are being met consistently by improving and developing inventory management process and procedures.
- Established barcode scanning and RFID technology to streamline inventory tracking and reduce manual errors.
- Collaborated with purchasing and production teams to ensure adequate stock levels to meet customer demands while minimizing carrying costs.

- Developed a baseline demand forecast at the country, brand, and SKU level (3000+).
- Established the S&OP process for all GCC countries, along with Africa & Levant countries resulting in improving the overall forecast accuracy by 25%.
- Managed the end-to-end supply chain, ensuring optimal inventory levels, minimizing stock-outs, and reducing excess inventory.
- Defined safety stock strategy, ABC classification and managed inventory throughout all regions, which has helped in maintaining the right mixture of SKUs in inventory.
- Implemented advanced planning software, resulting in improved forecast accuracy by 15% and reduced stock-outs by 20%.
- Monitored key performance indicators (KPIs) to track planning and S&OP performance, identifying areas for improvement and implementing corrective actions.

• Analyze Rolling Sales forecast, develop the process and manage the demand arising from GCC countries.
• Establish production forecast, utilizing capacity through effective planning and uniform loading distribution.
• Trend analysis, capacity allocation to the sales region on the basis past trend and forecast.
• Liaise with cross functional team to develop better process to meet the demand arising from the Americas, Middle East and Asian countries.
• New product analysis and looking into the feasibility of it in accordance with the market.
• Logistics planning while taking INCOTERM, flight availability, commercial & legal constraints into consideration.
• Maintained KPI and dashboard, improved KPI by exceeding TAT target of 95% and OTD target of 90% on most of occasions.
• Material requirement planning, uninterrupted coordination with vendor for capacity planning, lead time and order prioritization.