Merchandising.Executive
Boutique 1 Group LLC
Total years of experience :23 years, 11 Months
January 2013 - to present
Boutique 1 - Clothing, Apparel, Beauty, Books and Living (Luxury Fashion Brands)
RETAIL / E-COMMERCE INDUSTRY
TECOM - DUBAI, UAE
Position: Senior Merchandising and Supply Chain Executive
• Reporting directly to the Merchandising Director and managing the multi-brand section of our Dubai, Beirut, and London operations for high fashion brands such as Missoni, Chloe, Elie Saab, DVF, Y-3, Isabel Marant, Furla, Paul Joe and Monica Vinader, among 200 other brands in our portfolio
Merchandising and Supply Chain Planning and Inventory Management:
• Communicate with the brands and follow up with their representatives for orders, bookings, invoices, payments, shipments.
• Provide analysis reports to achieve business mark-ups, including liaising with buyers, brand and assistant merchandisers to ensure mark-ups are achieved.
• Provide sales & promotions Support (Stores & Outlets) - Prepare line list of promotion / municipality list as per guidelines set by line manager. Analysis - OTB analysis / by brand / by category / by product / by size, etc. to identify merchandising SWOT.
• Generate delivery reports - Summarize weekly delivery updates; resolve concerns raised by assistant merchandisers & buyers to expedite deliveries and highlight difficult issues.
• Prepare Consignment Returns list / Returns - Coordinate with buyers / suppliers / stores / to facilitate return GRN / arrange credit notes
• Gather information from section managers on customer preferences and buying behavior
• Work with store managers and section managers to optimize the merchandise and brand mix and add/remove/replace categories/brands.
• Responsible for all levels of stock control from receipt of the initial order to delivery at store level.
• Variance clearing and resolution (Store / Warehouse)
• System adjustment (Store /Warehouse)
• Moving and Non Moving from the store (Merchandising)
• Supervise goods allocation for all stores
• Responsible for the negotiation of and control of supplier delivery windows. Providing reports of delivery windows and order status on a regular basis to key departments including accounts, logistics, stockroom, store managers.
• Work closely with the buying team to develop range plans and produce range reviews.
• Improve management of supply chain by constantly negotiating preferential rates with suppliers. Providing sell thru reports when necessary. Liaising closely with suppliers to promote and ensure strong relationships are maintained.
• Product analysis by department, brand, style, colour, size to enable accurate feedback for buying and reordering as well as forecasting for budgets and future sales and growth.
• Work closely with accounts, logistics and stockroom to ensure the smooth running of the business, especially supplier payments, debits and credits, shipping details as requested by logistics and also ensuring clear and correct deliveries are received by the stockroom and dealing with any discrepancies.
• Re-ordering on basics and repeats.
• Ensure regular competitor and market analysis is carried out by the shop floor but price comparisons then need to be analyzed and necessary action taken with the buying team, supplier, accounts and stockroom to ensure that all competitors are in line.
• Conduct cycle counts.
• Perform merchandising analysis by category and product with the aim of understanding sales trends and send to brand and internal head of department
• Analyze and monitor inventory flow
• Actively collaborate with all division teams (Buying, Retail planning, E-Commerce, ERP) in order to build the most efficient season product strategy.
E-commerce:
• Resolution of non-online concerns; coordinate with buyers for lists exclusive to markets / web / locations / positive negative adjustments / fixing gaps between Magento E-commerce system & Navision etc. Uploading of GTIN/ EAN / UPC codes.
February 2012 - to present
Gallery One LLC ( Manufacturing for Wholesale & Retail ) British Company
Al Quoz 4, Dubai UAE
Position: Inventory Controller / Manager
Inventories Concerns:
• Generates established weekly / monthly reporting for consumption, physical inventory and sales report per store in monthly basis
• Maintains report scheduling and distribution
• Builds new reporting to support department metrics
• Maintains data to facilitate good forecasting and reasonable inventory levels
• Assists in the investigation of inventory discrepancies found during picking and replenishment, additionally cycle count planning, applying and investigating.
• Reviews system(s) reports and summarizes key financial information and information related to significant transactions.
•Performs data analysis for on-going identification of process
improvement opportunities.
• Ensures products and materials are ordered and in stock to meet company .
requirements, while maintaining acceptable inventory levels
• Collects, evaluates, and reports data in order to manage inventory.
• Analyzes inventory records.
• Interprets results of overall inventory .
• Collaborates with management to implement key initiatives.
Warehouse Operations Concerns:
• Ensure warehouse operation processes execution continuously.
• Track and improve warehouse measures and control warehouse cost.
• Cycle count and ensure warehouse record accuracy.
• Improve warehouse management and operation.
• Handle complains process for supplier delivery and quality issues.
• Be familiar with all warehouse operation.
Position: Inventory Controller
• Responsible for maintaining of acceptable and accurate inventory in ERP Focus system versus actual inventory stock in a daily basis.
• Generates Inventory report from ERP Focus System Stock Evaluation entry for the status of negative quantity then reconcile and give the correct adjusting entry intended for the negative balances and also check the stock ledger report per item to evaluate the history or movement of the transaction.
• Prepares production process entry for materials transfer from code to code and location to other location
• Maintain a record of all transfer materials to other warehouse or branches
• Monitoring of inventory materials coding and enter in ERP system .
• Responsible in preparing shortages and overages reports for all inventoriable items
• Responsible for correction of inventory coding, classifying of materials and updates location in ERP Focus System for easy retrievals
• Coordinates and communicates with operation manager, sales department, purchasing department and yard supervisor on inventory records, levels and locations.
Submits monthly reports on inter-company transactions such as Raw Materials and Finished Goods transfers
Ensures correctness and accuracy of Goods Receipt and Material Issue Notes.
Prepares monthly journal vouchers for consumption of Direct and Indirect Materials.
Oversees monthly floor check of inventories. Evaluates discrepancies and recommend adjustment when deemed necessary.
Assists the Finance Manager in the preparation of MS Powerpoint presentation for Cost of Goods Manufactured (Direct and Direct Materials, Direct labor and Overhead Expenses) for quarterly Board Meeting.
Analyzes and monitor the inventory turn over and inventory days.
Analyzes and monitor the increase /decrease of materials unit cost.
Prepares and analyzes the purchase price variance and materials cost variance.
Accumulates purchases and prepares payment for Packaging and Raw Materials and other inventory items purchased with Goldilocks BakeShop, Inc.(affiliates company
Supervises disposal of materials and make sure that all disposals are properly documented and taken up in the books.
Coordinates with external auditors (Earnst and Young Co.) regarding Annual Inventory taking.
Other Task: Logistic Spot Audit, Tray Audit, Fixed asset Audit