Free Lancer Supply Chain Consultant
Free Lancer Supply Chain Consultant
Total years of experience :19 years, 5 Months
Running freelancer supply chain consultancy service for retail groups or private exporters from Turkey to GCC for cosmetics and kitchenware products
• Consulting companies for products regulations for markets for cosmetics lines
• Running market search for pricing and reporting good, better best scale pricing
• Providing service for companies for store locations swot analysis
• Guiding companies to build up business case or budget forecast.
• Providing forecast service for companies for cosmetics
• Guiding companies for merchandising based on sales density.
Worked closely with GM responsible for managing sales forecast, OTB, margin, inventory, planogram and master data, import and local orders and forecast for ongoing revenue growth and profit.
• Working closely and assisting GM for strategical operational and financial plans KPIs, targets and action plans
• Working closely with commercial team for margin, promotion compensations with vendors, sales and order forecasts to principal brand and local vendors.
• Reviewing category performance and space /sales density and planogram for efficient profitable product and brand portfolio.
• Managing OTB, forecast and orders in line with brand inventory, financial targets and expansion plans
• Managing inventory levels and aged stock inventory in coordination with commercial and marketing team
• Managing warehouse inbound and outbound forecast
• Ensuring regular communication with principal brand which includes performance reports and KPI comparisons
• Ensuring regular country, brand, category, margin, inventory, promotion performance reporting in place
• Ensuring right products on shelves on right time for best customer experience,
managing and developing with principal brand teams for best lead time and cost efficient supply chain workflow
Managing supply chain operation for 5 countries, 6 distribution centers and 150 stores (Direct import orders from UK and Thailand for U.A.E., Kuwait and K.S.A. and managing replenishment from UAE to KSA, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman markets)
• Managing import forecasts and orders to provide best availability at warehouses by following ordering cycle, stock cover, aged stock and OTB.
• Managing 6 distribution centers Boots Pharmacy personal care and healthcare and beauty products volumes 8000 sku / 42 million units of products per year.
• Managing damaged, expired, close to expiry products, Quality issues, RTV, store returns process
• Managing Claims and credit notes from supplier to finance
• Managing annual volume forecast for inbound and outbound for 5 countries and 6 warehouses inbound and outbound tracking
• Coordinate and follow up registration process and manage distribution center allocations regarding country specific requirements per product
• Managing 20 m KWD - 66 m USD of stock.
• Managing store to store transfers
• Managing store stock take discrepancies between warehouse and stores
• Managing orders from UK and Thailand warehouses.
Managing replenishment teams for replenishing import grocery and non-food grocery orders, fresh food orders, frozen food, hard-lines orders, inventory and delivery to stores operations, managing availability at warehouse and stores, ordering calendar according to supplier lead times and custom clearance process, responsible for Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Bahrain, Jordan
• Managing import orders to provide best availability for the countries by following ordering calendar per suppliers
• Managing local orders for Kuwait
• Managing auto replenishment for Kuwait stores by using RMS min and max rules.
• Managing 4 teams grocery food and non-food, fresh food, local, auto-replenishment, admins (19 people)
• Managing 13.5 m kwd - 45m Usd stock of business at stores and warehouse
• Organizing suppliers order and delivery schedules
• Managing value chain with suppliers from ordering to delivery
• Managing import ordering for Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Bahrain, Jordan
• Managing slow moving lines and close to expiry products
Planning of annual Home cook and furnishing trade budget, OTB, managing of stock turnover days, aged stocks and provision gaps, range and availability in stores. planning of annual volumes of import goods in and out volumes in bonded and duty paid warehouses, return to vendor process
• Managing Home cook and furnishing range plans to provide best availability at stores
• Managing of annual buying plans OTB due to stock turnover, aged stock and provision criteria
• Managing 18 million TL - (9 mil. USD) stock business of home cook and furniture for 55 hyper-50 super and 90 express stores
• Managing clearance processes periodically
• Managing equal daily volume planning of hardlines, softlines in promotional and seasonal periods without causing over load of work on warehouses,
• Managing import volumes planning
• Managing stock transfers between warehouses and stores 52 weeks Long term planning including goods in/out/ stock on hand for Turkey Distribution center
• Managing team of 3 merchandise planners with their develeopment plans with smart targets
Planning of annual electronics trade budget, OTB, managing of stock turnover days, aged stocks and provision gaps, range and availability in stores. Planning of annual volumes of import goods in and out volumes in bonded and duty paid warehouses, return to vendor process
• Managing hard-lines electronics range plans to provide best availability at stores
• Managing of annual buying plans, OTB due to stock turnover, aged stock and provision criteria
• Managing 50 million TL-(23 Mil. USD) stock business of electronics for 55 hyper-50 super and 90 express stores
• Managing clearance processes periodically
• Managing equal daily volume planning of hardlines, softlines, frozen in promotional and seasonal periods without causing over load of work at distribution.centers
• Managing goods acceptance and goods out plans for warehouse operations man power, import volume planning and operations time lines, managing stock transfers between warehouses and stores 52 weeks Long term planning including goods in/out/stock on hand for Turkey Distribution Center
• Managing team of 2 merchandise planners with their develeopment plans with smart targets.
• Edi tims adaptation to electronics suppliers.
Forecast goods in & goods out stock volumes for Turkey Distribution Center, OMSAN, HAVI frozen warehouse(bonded “A”, ”C” and duty paid) both for cross-dock and Pick by store - Pick By Line operations to Ensure right stock at the right time is delivered to stores for customers.
• Managing Hard lines& Soft lines import/ local products and frozen products delivery and ordering volume operations.
• Organizing suppliers order and delivery schedules
• Managing equal daily volume planning of hardlines, softlines, frozen in promotional and seasonal periods without causing over load of work on Distribution Center’s
goods acceptance and goods out/replanishment plans for warehouse operations man power
• Managing export volumes planning and operations time lines.
• Managing stock transfers between whs and stores
• 52 weeks Long term planning including goods in/out/stock on hand for Turkey Distribution Center, Omsan and Havi frozen warehouse
• Giving support on x dock project and frozen centralization as member of project team
• Having cross functional planning and forecasting with hardline Distribution Center & clothing Distribution Center and dhl-havi teams
• Managing goods acceptance problems for locals and imports.
• Managing communication between stakeholders by supply chain for clear communication.
• Managing daily/weekly and import/local allocations and replenishment for hypers and express stores,
• Checking the non moving items and ask for exit plan from commercial dept,
• Managing investment buyings process in coorperation with Distribution Center income manager
• Managing seasonal buying planning
• Managing layouts in coorperation with Distribution Center team.
Working as a bridge for hardline, softline teams, stores and Distribution Center to ensure best availability at stores for customers on time within company stock levels and days and drive those stake holder to the way to be followed.
• Managing and Improving the centralization period/rate and ordering with close follow up and ensuring the adaptation of new centralized suppliers and Distribution Center to each other
• Minimize the problems may occur from simple pack, inner case, barcode, boxing, palletting by organizing regular meetings with related departmants before promotions, seasonal events to organize suppliers.(import-local)
• Organizing return to vendor, epw products communication between hardlines commercial and d.c. and store to store IBT’s.
• Managing new stores orders, import allocations and replenishment
• Having meetings with suppliers have low delivery service levels for best availability.
Control and adjust the order quantities, availability at stores and stock days parallel to company targets by agreeing upon common strategy with multiple stake holders;commercial, Distribution Center marketing, stores
• Checking the daily stock and preparing stock list reports for pbs lines and organizing orders parallel to targeted stock days if necessary both for hypers and express stores responsible for food grocery, soft drinks, alcholic drinks, detergents, general cleaning departments including promotions.,
• Controlling deliveries after sending orders and evaluating the suppliers due to delivery on time success and delivery performance and Having meetings with low performance suppliers to increase their service levels,
• Arranging order and delivery schedule for PBL/PBS goods acceptance
• Checking the delisted goods for return and contact with the suppliers for return to vendor process or commercial for clearence,
• Helping to solve goods acceptance problems at d.c. due to barcode, simple pack issues, price differences by contacting commercial or suppliers.
• Managing replenishment orders
Purchasing of 4 millon dollars volume of every printed material based on paper, vacuum, shrinkable bags and foils, food emulators and stabilisers, locally and import
• Making annual purchasing agreements, preparing business volume rebate agreements, for food additives, food packaging materials (printed/unprinted),
• Supplier evaluation, supplier auditing/evaluating ( evaluation of service, quality, delivery dates), preparing business volume reports,
• Following raw material market and prices, value analysis,
• Creating alternative products suppliers, following of samples of alternatives, creating alternative suppliers, Consolidation of suppliers for sustainable quality
• Shipping organization for import/export goods Import regulations
Conducting of grammar, reading, listening, writing courses to the class according to annual lesson plan,
Planning of cargo on board according to passenger loads., Preparing airwaybill for the goods on flightDelivery of airwaybills, preparing of documents needed, filling notoc if necessary
courses: ın Amerıcan Culture and Lıterature Department Faculty of Scıence and Letters
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