Site Supply Planning Manager – KSA Factory
Unilever - Saudi Arabia
Total years of experience :13 years, 5 Months
Key Roles & Responsibilities
o Leading the function of supply planning including material planning, production planning, innovation planning along with customer service for local market, GCC and over 45 countries of export.
o Lead strategic service and capacity reviews for KSA factory.
o Lead the operational delivery for cash, service and speed to market.
o Develop a business continuity plan for critical materials/suppliers with procurement support.
o Liaison with factory operational teams to drive saving agenda through optimizing inventory, production leveling, production run strategy and materials localization.
Major Achievements
o Over-achieve service and cash KPIs for KSA factory during covid’19 by developing a full plan with support of operations and procurement teams.
o Fast-track covid’19 related project to be landed within 25 days in market through massive collaboration with all relative functions.
o Drive factory growth agenda for export business with +15%.
Manage the full portfolio of material and production planning for Jeddah site.
•Manage factory inventory level and service delivery.
•Drive world class manufacturing agenda for customer service pillar.
Major Achievements
•Department restructure to be in line with factory blueprint to drive focus and accountability.
•Massive improvement in term of output reliability +15%, service and 50% reduction in FG stocks level through process revamp, IPM enhancement and localization initiatives.
Food, Refreshment and Home care forecast through S&OP process.
•Managing the innovations and initiatives planning in order to achieve projects OITF (on time in full).
•Drive S&OP continues improvement initiatives in KSA.
Major Achievements
•Manage business waste reduction agenda with +60% improvement.
•Led S&OP revamp initiatives for KSA business unit successfully.
S&OP cycle at corporate level and ensure conducting the required monthly reviews and initiatives.
•Finalize the annual targeted growth with principals and ensure full alignment with corporate development plans & building blocks.
Major Achievements
•Centralize the demand function with clear roles and responsibilities to be in line with business dynamics.
•Improve the forecast accuracy and initiatives readiness by driving the discipline in the S&OP process and develop an integrated planning cycle with customers.
the functions of supply chain, demand planning, merchandising, customer logistics and trade marketing services.
•Manage service level agreements (SLA) with other strategic business units (SBU).
•Create integrated processes among operations, purchasing, logistics, and execute the planning/replenishment process.
•Design & implement sales force incentives in line with the organization direction.
Key Achievements
•Department structure optimization with 50% manpower reduction taking into consideration same deliverables & expectations.
•Develop a daily/weekly tracker for all operation functions including branch replenishment, lost sales, customer deliveries and shelf stock out at outlet level which led to breakthrough in term of reporting and indentifying all gaps.
•Successfully designed & executed Sales Force Incentive Scheme & SBU’s scorecards aligned with organization OGSM & allocated budget.
the annual volume forecast through detailed analysis in alignment with the principals (Goody, General Mills, SC Johnson, Perfetto, Perrier, Velor, Cofique).
•Planning for new products volume and generating the forecast at Customer Item level.
•Monitor forecast accuracy performance along with service and inventory level.
Key Achievements
•Improve on-shelf availability of consistent out of stock items by 20% through an integrated project with merchandising company.
•Optimize data accuracy by automating all tracking tools.
•Standardizing main department processes
courses: Third Honor Degree •Successfully completed BSC and MPR CPIM modules from APCIS. •Pursuing supply chain micro master program (online) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MITx). •Certified Supply Chain Manager from International Supply Chain Education Alliance (ISCEA) since June’11.