Mohammed Wadee

• Responsible for coordinating the supply planning & supply review processes for a 24 months period within the CBM Supply organisation
• Integral in the delivery of the annual business plan through soliciting business inputs
• Overall accountability for:
o Develop optimised Supply plan (Supply-Demand Balance)
o Custodian of the Supply Optimisation model
o Coordinates and facilitates the monthly planning meetings
o Accountable for identifying business risks and opportunities, in consultation with the business,
o Leading performance management analysis and interventions on the execution of the supply plan
• Manage Drivers of Cash and Working Capital Management
• Partake in and lead strategic projects that enhance continuous improvement, delivery strategy and shape the future of the organisation.
• Managing of staff and resource requirements that reports to the role

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development of global processes for the Supply Chain Management (SCM) function ensuring alignment in approach and standards. Ensures the seamless integration of cross functional processes with the SCM solution and leverages leading practice insights across MTN.
• Manages the global design and implementation of standard end-to-end processes for SCM to be delivered across the Shared Services Centre, Centers of Excellence and the 22 Operating Companies and drive the business rule changes required to support the new global solution.
• Works closely with the Opco SCM HODs to ensure that the processes are in-line with local Tax, Legal and Regulatory Requirements.
• Validate the SCM processes and application controls across the 22 Operating Companies.

Focus areas in Supply Chain Management:

• Sourcing & Procurement (Global & Local)
• Supplier Management (Global & Local)
• Demand & Planning Management (Sales and Operation Planning, Projects planning and Resource and Capacity Planning)
• Requisition to Order (end to end P2P process)
• Inventory Management (Trading stock, Capex stock and promo/marketing stock)
• Customer Order Management (Customer service management including B2B/B2C)
• Physical Logistics Management (Warehousing and Transport)

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead Demand & Supply Planning (S&OP and Inventory Planning) processes by monitoring and manage the demand and supply planning processes and produce accurate demand plans and efficient supply plans to achieve the targeted customer service level
• Ensure integrity of different databases i.e. IMSP, APO & R3.
• Ensure that D&SP best practices are implemented and understood.
• Optimized stock cover policies are implemented and respected focusing on working capital targets.
• Establish and ensure collaborative and efficient relationship with Sales, Marketing, Technical and Nestle affiliated.
• Monitor and lead projects and key meetings that involves a number of activities across functions to achieve a business goal.
• Attending monthly meetings and provide support for exception management resolution through key MBP meetings.
• Managing staff including setting and reviewing objectives and conducting performance appraisals/PDG.
• Manage administrative tasks, recruit, develop and manage DSP teams.
• Assist with continuous improvement projects by monitoring and analyzing Demand and Supply Planning KPIs and PPIs and identifying potential areas of improvement.
• Key KPIs include. Customer service level, Demand planning accuracy, Working Capital (finished goods and Raw material) & freshness.
• Had 5 resources reporting to me.
• Present monthly operations review to senior management - includes CEO and directors.

I was part part of the Project Thuthuka Team that is tasked with providing the “cradle to grave” supply chain solution for Ellerines Holdings in the retail furniture industry.

My responsibilities are split across the following areas and are interdependent:

The ROI (Return On Investment) Team - Conducting analysis and process definition and re-
engineering in order to asses when cost savings can be achieved and processes be made more
efficient and effective.

The Transition Team - Provide the link between current state and end state tasks. This is to ensure
that the transition to the new solution is done in a seamless manner as possible. My main focus is on
facilities, transportation and IT readiness.

The Operations Team - Assist the operations team in determining whether all suggested processors
and procedures are practical and relevant to the day to day operations of the supply chain solution.
This includes conduction user acceptance testing (UAT), operations readiness testing and training.

As a consultant my duties include assisting an organization is realizing its full potential and ultimately operating more efficiently and effectively. I am also required to manage and contribute to the various lifecycle steps that a project goes through and essentially assist with smooth change management taking place.

The areas of my responsibility are as follows:

· Consultation and Advice: analyzing on industry norms, best practices and minimum standards required.
· Scoping and research: determining the needs of the organization and its current processes and procedures by facilitating and conducting workshops.
· Design: this includes process analysis, JAD facilitation, identification and optimization.
· Configuration and Implementation: matching the defined needs of the business and implementing into the management systems of the business.
· Testing: as a consultant am responsible of making sure that all processes fit the business and are practical and feasible.
· Training: the training of both high and low level users.
· Trouble Shooting and Support
· Documentation and communication with clients is essential.

Clients for which I have done work include:
Coca - Cola Canners of Southern Africa: Manufacturing Implementation (2005 - 2006).
Then Scientific Group: Support services for distribution modules (2006 - 2007).
Murray and Roberts Construction: Distribution support (2007).
The Momentum Group: Applications enhancements support (2006 - 2007).
CN Business Furniture: Manufacturing and Distribution implementation and support (2007 - 2009).
Murray and Roberts ESF Medupi: Distribution Implementation (2008).
South African Bank Note Company: Manufacturing, Capital Asset Management and Distribution implementation (Current project).
Oracle South Africa: Conducting training at Oracle for various clients and users on various modules.