Supply Chain Manager
Kudu Company For Food And Catering
Total years of experience :15 years, 7 Months
• Strategic sourcing and controlling of SR 250 million annually spent categories.
• Meat factory production planning.
• Leading the team operating inventory control and strategic settlements.
• Supplier management through Research, negotiation, maintenance and regularly enhancing and evaluating relationships and contracts with both local and international suppliers in order to achieve a reliable supply which meets the standards of the company. Mainly managing the strategical supplier who can serve company's best interest accordingly.
• To ensure consistent supplies of all the products to our Restaurants supported by cost savings and by having handy alignment with the DC at the same time support the Marketing calendar to boost the Sales.
Operations Management: -
• Monitoring day to day deliveries of Fresh, Frozen, Chilled and dry products to the stores on daily basis.
• Handling 500 million SAR inventory for both perishable and non-perishable products.
• Monitoring stock levels both in DC and stores.
• Generating pre-alerts for operations for any critical situation in stocks of food and paper.
• On call 24/7 for any issues incurred in stores related to logistics and supplies of food and paper.
• Generating allocations for any new/regular products system wide keeping in view the distance, patch size, profit center, drop points and stocks.
• Time to time eradicating issues arouse between finance and stores in relation to food and paper cost charging.
• Generating and presenting stores supply issue report for weekly Operations, Marketing & Supply chain management meeting.
• Monitoring store’s ordering schedules in order for them to abide the given ordering deadlines.
• Make sure that all new promotional items reach the stores before the launch time and avoid to the max any requirement of special delivery to save the extra costs.
• Main contact between DC customer service and stores and rest of the MCD operations team.
• Monitoring and analyzing the Running & Upcoming promotion report, Product Aging report, Weekly sales per store & per item report, sales pcs & KG report provided by DC operations on weekly basis.
• Monitoring and analyzing and generating comparisons for the Price list shared by DC operations on Monthly basis.
• Creating and sharing the projections for new/regular promotional/regular items related to any new promotion.
• Placing the orders for new/regular promotional/regular items related to any new promotion.
• Introducing and registering the new/contingencies suppliers based on the guide lines from concerned MCD authorities.
• Monitoring DC logistics personnel in order for them to adhere store delivery schedules on time also in case of emergency/accident.
• Make sure ETA’s are compatible for all products related to any new promotion with its launch date in order to make smooth distribution of the products among the stores before launch date.
Marketing Support: -
• Preparation of projections for all related products of any new of promotion initiated by marketing team.
• Arranging/sourcing samples of new products (food) globally for marketing testing.
• After confirmations of projections of promotions from concern authorities in Marketing, placing the orders with DC and make sure ETA’s are compatible for all products with promotion’s launch date.
• Consulting the reports of running and upcoming promotions on weekly basis.
• Preparing Food & Paper cost for any new product related to any new promotion.
• Sending pre-alerts for any near expiry items to marketing in order to avail them take quick decisions and avoid wastage/loss.
• Recalling products from stores to DC in situations like cancellation of promotion, damage product or any other unpredicted issue occurred.
• Follow up on Shipments from Suppliers based on the communication from Procurement. .
• Ensure timely execution of Sales Orders and the Order requests across the Kingdom.
• Ensure the Inbound process function at the ground as per the set work flow.
• Ensure the Outbound process function at the ground as per the set work flow.
• Conducting periodical stock count daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly & yearly to ensure stock
Having with no discrepancies
• Ensure proper documentation procedures are in place and monitor them.
• Responsible for preparing and sending the stock report, Inbound & Outbound report
To management on daily, weekly, monthly & quarterly bases
• Responding to all customer complaints or queries in an efficient manner.
• Coordination with 3PL partners to ensure the deliveries of goods to customer in efficient manner
• Ensure systematic record keeping and storage of files in line with Finance department requirements.
• Ensure proper maintenance of resources available and optimum utilization of the same for increased productivity. (viz., Fork Lifts, Trucks, Vans etc)
• Ensure all relational functions are completed on time by proper and smooth Inter Departmental Co-ordination (Viz., IT Dept., Finance Dept., Personnel and Administration, etc).
• Handling and maintaining the complete database of the employees and their
families to enroll them in medical insurance policy for both ZONIK & TRACK.
• Follow ups with the finance for premium payments.
• Handling travel bookings such as air travel, hotel booking, train travel, etc.
• Maintaining healthy business relationships with the suppliers related to Medical insurance, air travel, hotel bookings, fleet (AVIS), STC and courier services (SmSa) in order to let related work proceedings in difficult situation.
• Coping with the company policy limits of budget for travel bookings.
• Establishing contracts with manpower suppliers
• Processing Salaries for outsource employees.
• Allocating the costs as per departments.
• Supervising utility bill payments such as SEC and STC for all organization outlets, warehouses and branch offices.
• Authorized for applying and cancelling STC services.
• Looking after the fleet section such as renting vehicles for employees on Business trips based on the company policy directives.
Also completed first year of Post graduation in the field of Finance, HR & Marketing.