Head of Supply Chain and Procurement-Commodities
Fatima Group
Total years of experience :16 years, 4 Months
• Leading E2E supply chain and procurement of commodities with total annual spend of 225 million USD and the supplier base across 5 continents and serving 5 manufacturing plants whereas handling annual volumes of one million metric tons.
• Initiated S&OP cycle for the first time in petro chemical industry in Pakistan.
• Developed annual demand and supply plans in accordance to the business strategy and share the compliance with management.
• Implemented lean supply chain concept in Fatima Group Supply Chain Function.
• Led and developed sourcing strategies that drive competitive advantage for FG by optimizing total cost-of-ownership without compromising quality and reliability standards.
• Identifying potential opportunities for consolidation and alternate / local sourcing, developing contingency plans, ensuring strategic stock reserves, managing strategic supplier relationships, driving value creation through collaborative partnerships with internal and external customers, and establishing long term contracts to create value within Supply Chain.
• Established core KPIs and reporting mechanism for real time monitoring and decision making.
• Established performance based reward and recognition program.
• Introduced latest procurement related technologies e.g. Reverse E- Auction, E-Sourcing
• Records accurately the inventory and checks inventory rotation; controls and co-ordinates all documents relevant to receipt and despatch of goods.
• Negotiate, influence and Collaborate with key stakeholders Co-ordinate with suppliers to maintain service levels while constantly seeking improvement possibilities with special focus on digitalization.
• Visited China, Central Asia, Egypt and European market for the sourcing and bench-marking activities
• Implemented supply chain and procurement best practices in Fatima Group based on benchmarking with competitive industries and international best practices.
• Presents insights to management based on internal and external inputs for timely decision making
• Train Supply chain staff on six sigma concept and inculcate problem solving culture in supply chain.
• Review or update supply chain and procurement practices in accordance with new or changing environmental policies, standards, regulations, or laws
• Consistently bench mark Fatima Group supply chain practices with local and international organization and strive to implement the best practices.
• Monitors and manages Safety, Health and Environment, Quality and CARE regulations
• Development of careers, succession plans, development and coaching of supply chain personnel in close coordination with Supply Chain Management
• Ensure implementation of organizational strategy by execution of annual operational plans related to MRO
• Provider leadership to MRO team to develop and deploy sourcing strategies of all categories (IT, Machinery, Equipment, E&I and Civil) and Projects with the annual spend of 30 million USD.
• Develop annul procurement plans by category and regularly monitor the inventory levels of critical materials.
• While making decisions, have special focus on total cost of ownership to ensure competitive advantage for the organization.
• Develop a comprehensive Supplier Relationship Management Program with specific focus of critical suppliers e.g. Siemens, Dell, GE, Howden, MAN Energy etc.
• Develop contingency plans to ensure the sustainable supplies without comprising the cost, quality and service after aligning the internal and external stockholders.
• Take measures to reduce the overall cost through forward buying, E-auctions, hedging and other smart initiatives.
• Devise mechanism for real time monitoring of procurement KPIs
• Provide day to day leadership in making negotiation strategies, Cost effective procurement, real time monitoring the KPIs e.g. aging of PRs, outstanding POs, RFQs, RFPs, savings and spend analysis etc.
• Collaborate with Head of Excellence for continuous improvement in business processes by identify the opportunities of digitalization, lean supply chain practices, data driven decision making and introduction of innovative solutions.
• Ensure succession planning and develop bench strength for all key positions. Develop a training and development plan in collaboration with Unit Head Excellence. Develop and lead the coaching and mentoring program for development of team members.
• Develop and regularly update the supply chain and procurement policies, procedures and guidelines as per the business need and new realities.
• Lead the Supply chain and procurement digitalization and automation journey and eliminate manual tasks by introducing ERP based solutions.
• Support chief supply chain & procurement officer on supply chain transformation project by staying abreast with the latest supply chain and procurement trends.
• Develop and drive supply chain and procurement team capability building program by using development need analysis tool and ensure adherence to the plan.
• Ensure full utilization of ERP system and enhance the team capability for data driven decision making.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives, train team on Lean and 6 sigma concepts and ensure that improvement/savings projects are delivered on time.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams for process improvement.
• Lead the supply chain and procurement team restructuring as per global best practices.
• Regularly participate in supply chain and procurement forums and share the insights with team and leadership teams.
• Develop real time functional performance monitoring mechanism and take corrective actions in case of any deviation in KPIs.
• Manage E2E supply chain operations of Starbucks, LPQ, Cheesecake factory, PF Chang, IHOP and all other foods brands operated by ALSHAYA in UAE
• Lead and manage the production planning, MRP, customer services, inventory control, forecasting, warehousing, transportation and procurement.
• Manage, guide and develop the factory supply chain teams to ensure: - Detailed Production Scheduling is consistently delivering achievable plans for both manufacturing and filling/packaging operations within given Master Production Schedule, whilst minimizing production costs.
• Ensure raw & packaging materials availability on time and in excellent quality at best overall costs for seamless manufacturing.
• Assess appropriate material handling equipment needs and staffing levels to load, unload, move, or store materials.
• Collaborate with other departments, such as engineering, and quality assurance, to identify or qualify new supplier.
• Document physical supply chain processes, such as workflows, cycle times, position responsibilities, or system flows.
• Design or implement plant warehousing strategies for production materials or finished products
• Confer with supply chain planners to forecast demand or create supply plans that ensure availability of materials or products
• Manage activities related to strategic or tactical purchasing, material requirements planning, inventory control, warehousing, or receiving.
• Establish Key performance indicator, monitor on going performance and improve performance against set goals.
• Supply planning: Analyze and evaluate the supply plan and net dispatch requirements to satisfy customer needs taking into account the network complexity and the supply constraints.
• Calculate fresh milk requirement at MBS horizon and collaborate with technical team for alignment on fresh milk numbers and its accuracy.
• Devise bulk powder recombination plans to bridge the gap between fresh milk requirement and availability in market
• Collaborate with procurement team in order to ensure the availability of imported powders and fats in our warehouses.
• Make an optimum production plans by balancing the fresh milk and imported powders to minimizing the production cost.
• Inventory Management: Balance the need for product availability versus the need to minimize costs of inventory to ensure optimum stocks of the right material in the right location
• Exceptions management: Analyze exceptions, to take business decisions (based on priorities or after arbitration) and to adjust planning results accordingly.
• Establish production requirements for short and long term and to follow up production plans.
• Consistently achieve sustainable Customer Service Level for domestic and Inter-Market Supply (IMS) customers within the Working Capital and Freshness objectives by ensuring that the weekly planning process is executed on time.
• Establish stock policies for Finished Goods. To do this for Inter Market Supply together with Planners of Receiving Markets
• Periodically review the stock level of the domestic and the receiving markets to pro-actively look for solutions in case of deviations.
• Determine key issues with volume variance that may impact supply, and highlight to MPS Planner by - challenging existing Logistics and Supply Planning processes and tools
- implementing improvements to deliver tangible benefits (e.g.: time savings, increased efficiencies, etc.) - monitoring requirements evolution Analyze and effectively communicate relevant information - Highlighting all supply issues - Detailing impacts of proposed actions and related tradeoffs
• Ensuring actions and Supply Plans are realistic and achievable in accordance with the Business Planning process
• Challenge manufacturing on regular basis to manage lot sizes, cycle times and R&P inventory levels, to drive optimum FG inventory level. Also, to challenge and support Demand Planner (Domestic and IMS) to improve Demand Planning Accuracy
International Assignment as Project Manager in Nestle Equatorial African Region: Jun 2016 to September 2016
• To implement the best practices of supply planning process
• To restructure warehousing and distribution model as per Nestle Best practices.
• To help and coach the team for the true implementation of SAP module.
• To strengthen the Material Requirement Planning process by bridging the knowledge and system gaps
• To monitor the Nestle continuous Excellence model and provide training to the team for better output.
• To highlight and bridge gaps relevant to procurement of direct materials in Nestle EAR
• To support technical team for the monitoring of Factory performance
Supply Planning Manager (Non Dairy Business): Jan 2015 to May 2016 with following responsibilities.
• Supply planning: Analyze and evaluate the supply plan and net dispatch requirements to satisfy customer needs taking into account the network complexity and the supply constraints.
• Load planning: Plan and optimize mixed loads taking into account transportation constraints.
• Inventory Management: Balance the need for product availability versus the need to minimize costs of inventory to ensure optimum stocks of the right material in the right location
• Exceptions management: Analyze exceptions, to take business decisions (based on priorities or after arbitration) and to adjust planning results accordingly.
• Establish production requirements for short and long term and to follow up production plans.
• Consistently achieve sustainable Customer Service Level for domestic and Inter-Market Supply (IMS) customers within the Working Capital and Freshness objectives by ensuring that the weekly planning process is executed on time.
• Establish stock policies for Finished Goods. To do this for Inter Market Supply together with Planners of Receiving Markets
• Periodically review the stock level of the domestic and the receiving markets to pro-actively look for solutions in case of deviations.
• Determine key issues with volume variance that may impact supply, and highlight to MPS Planner by
- challenging existing Logistics and Supply Planning processes and tools
- implementing improvements to deliver tangible benefits (e.g.: time savings, increased efficiencies, etc.)
- monitoring requirements evolution
Analyze and effectively communicate relevant information
- Highlighting all supply issues
- Detailing impacts of proposed actions and related tradeoffs
• Ensuring actions and Supply Plans are realistic and achievable In accordance with the Business Planning process
• Challenge manufacturing on regular basis to manage lot sizes, cycle times and R&P inventory levels, to drive optimum FG inventory level. Also, to challenge and support Demand Planner (Domestic and IMS) to improve Demand Planning Accuracy.
• Deliver sustained IMS performance
Materials and Production Planner (UHT and Confectionary)
Jan 2012 to Dec 2014 with Following Responsibilities.
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To Create a feasible production plan within the DPS period that takes into consideration available capacity, available labor and available materials that respect the product family sequencing as determined by the Supply Planner and best optimizes the factory's ability to produce the SKUs within the families.
Identification of practical issues concerning plant shutdowns, timing of promotion activity within the DPS period
Identification of possible opportunities/issues for the factory within the DPS period
Create an optimized replenishment plan for raw and packaging materials over an 18 month horizon that ensures supply of material to production whilst ensuring that the working capital targets for raw and packaging materials are met.
Monitors supply signals (local and imported materials) through the use of MRP purchase requisitions ensuring delivery dates, lead times and required quantities are correct and finally creating purchase orders and ensuring their fulfillment by the supplier.
Manages directly with the defined supplier the delivery of materials: this includes creating, sending, confirming, receiving, investigating errors and discrepancies on blocked or parked invoice lines and handling all exceptions / issues in those operations, including claims management.
Define the stock policy and management approach to be applied to each SKU within their portfolio.
Identification of practical issues concerning material supply and demand for raw and packaging materials.
Ensures excellent supplier relationships.
Involves the suppliers in Supply Chain improvement exercises that create shared value for both Nestlé and their suppliers.
Team Leader supply chain (Physical Logistics & Warehousing)) - Jan 2008-Dec 2011 with Following Responsibilities.
Effective & proper utilization of all available resources within Warehouse.
Strong leadership to ensure all processes & operations according to SOPs & ensuring a good teamwork of all sections within Distribution Centre.
Proper planning & effective utilization of fixed overhead expenses & continuous monitoring & controlling to remain within the budgeted limits.
Effective liaison of different functions within Supply Chain & factory management to ensure smooth & trouble free operations.
To create environment of continuous improvement & maintain morale of staff to achieve high performance & results.
Handling, investigating, and replying all concerned Abnormalities
To ensure achieving & maintaining given Key Performance Indicators.
Organizing & managing incentive plans for the staff to maintain a culture of excellence based on “Innovation & Renovation”.
Quarterly performance review of staff for specific cases.
Participate in all events & tasks given by the factory management.
To ensure the practical implementation of process description activities based on NIMS objectives and principles, review and improvement of KPIs.
Provide leadership for implementing the Nestle SHE Standards and Instructions and ensure compliance with Safety, Health and Environmental Legislations.
To handle the unionized staff in a skillful way.
Ensured the good warehouse practices.
To manage the team of 50 people in a shift.
To work as DC Manager in the absence of Manager.
Environment Coordinator, May 2005- Dec 2007.
To ensure the compliance of environmental standards as per Regulatory Norms.
To carry out the sampling of Water and air emission through third party.
To present the environmental KPIs in management meeting.
To calculate and enter the monthly KPIs in NEST.
To watch the waste water treatment plant operation in order to keep the effluent water results within norms.