Regional Shipping officer
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Total years of experience :7 years, 5 Months
(ICRC) an NGO, ensuring humanitarian protection and assistance for victims of war and other situations of violence. Below are some of my duties:
- Briefs logistics staff leaving for field assignments about shipping rules and regulations.
- Commissions and follows up on air, sea, and road transport services.
- Checks the credentials of contracted shipping companies.
- Participate to the tendering process raising Invitations to Tender and Selection Table.
- Participates in writing of Transport Contracts and follow up the Contracts duration in order to propose a new Invitation to tender or an extension.
- Keeps contact with the LSC warehouse and CSD, the manufacturer/supplier and the transporter to enable smooth support for the colleagues.
- Establishes weekly progress reports on shipments status and be the transport’s unit representative at the Supply Chain weekly meeting
- Prepares the P/O files for transportation and submits them for validation to the Regional Transport Manager before they are dispatched to HQ.
Pine Tree is a cloths manufacturer for NIKE brand.
-Builds, leads and develops a highly motivated oriented logistics team.
- Update data base for trusted supplier (foreign & local) and set KPI's.
- Standardize procurement and logistics procedures for easy track and audit.
- Monitor daily shipments and make sure to be cleared and deliver before deadlines
- Maintain good relationship with suppliers, forwarders, clearance agents and any related third parties.
- Providing weekly and monthly analysis for all activates to be shared in order to discuss any improvements, challenges and solutions.
- Link between planning requirements and warehouse capacity
- Managing exemptions and temporary admission processes in order to keep bank guarantee in healthy status.
- Provide JFTA & destruction team with any supporting documents and track their work.
- Follow up with logistics team to insure that all activities updated in our ERP system.
-Achieved Bronze rating on NIKE Standard related to credibility in delivery.
Orkila is a Distribution, Sales and Marketing organization, specialized in food, paint, home and personal care sectors.
- Prepare weekly sales reports and set a forecast for future sales
- Order to invoice process and manage the timely flow of customer orders.
- Responsible for stock management, including discharging and receiving material, maintaining accurate stock data, and preparing periodical reports to top management.
- Managing automobiles and goods delivery from warehouse to customers, and making new agreements with several courier services to increase the benefit of sourcing.
- Following up with FDA and clearance companies.
- Financial responsibilities including preparing checks for due amounts, managing wire transfers to HQ, handling petty cash for the office.
- Administrative responsibilities including office management, handling bills, health insurance and HR duties.
SAM operates in mechanical, instruments, controls and electrical parts.
- Issue purchase orders, choose ship mode, arrange international shipments and maintain records.
- Coordinate with different departments in the company such as finance to insure that all payments to manufactures are paid when due to avoid any delays in production/delivery.
- Check inventory for required materials before ordering, and reserve it if available.
- Find new shipping agencies and open accounts with them to increase the benefit of sourcing.
- Manage import and export related activities with shipping agents, customs clearance officials to ensure smooth and on time clearance without any demurrage and/or detention.
- Prepare weekly reports and submitting them to the project manager showing status of each shipment.
Subjects studied: - Management: Project management, quality control, time and motion, human resources, reliability and maintenance, operation research, simulation and automation, six sigma, production planning and control, facility, logistics and supply chain. -Manufacturing: Material science, manufacturing process, metallurgical process, design of machines, safety, polymers, metrology and measurements.