Mohmad Sarfaraj Vora, head supply chain

Mohmad Sarfaraj Vora

head supply chain

The industrial group

البلد
المملكة العربية السعودية - جدة
التعليم
ماجستير, Operations
الخبرات
14 years, 5 أشهر

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مجموع سنوات الخبرة :14 years, 5 أشهر

head supply chain في The industrial group
  • المملكة العربية السعودية - جدة
  • مايو 2019 إلى أكتوبر 2019

Supply chain strategy for next 5 years
Procurement and demand /supply planning
S&OP
Digitization

Head Supply Chain - Asia Pacific في BASF
  • سنغافورة
  • يونيو 2011 إلى مايو 2019

Planning:

 Demand Planning - APO DP (SAP), Analyze historical data for all customer base, facilitate monthly forecast, agreeing & signing off forecast with country management, communicating long term forecast to all stake holders.
 Supply Planning - MRP (SAP), Demand / Supply balancing and Production Planning & Scheduling, maintaining strong resonance with sites and securing timely production & shipments.
 Lead S&OP process& discuss various Demand, Supply, Inventory, Operations bottlenecks & issues which have impact on working capital & business with Management Team and arrive at mitigating strategies.
 Tolling (3rd Party Mfg) - End to End planning of all Tolling locations - Identification of toller, feasibility study, setting up SOPs, analysing non value added products / activities which can be off-loaded to tollers, setting up products, and execution production schedule against plan.
 Long term Production planning & short term production scheduling for all sites & tolling locations.
 Ensuring maximum utilization of assets in orders have lower idle cost.
 EHS Audit coordination for tolling sites.
 Procurement - Raw Material / Merchandise goods from Europe, U.S, & Asian countries.
 Vendor scheduling and communication with suppliers.
 Collaboration with all stake holders (manufacturing, procurement, Logistics, QC/ QA, Technical / Product Development) across all sites for achievement of production plan, optimize equipment, New Product Launch, customer service.
 Build relationships with global planning, sourcing, logistics, customer service, technical, teams for the coordination and support of supply chain service level efficiencies & strategic projects.
 Taking input from OTC (Order to Cash) team about order book & distribution of FG as per orders.

Analysis / Management / Project:

 Reengineer / Improve Supply Chain model & Processes in order to keep Supply Chain cost with budget.
 Annual Planning - Capacity, Distribution Network, Procurement, Inventory Budgeting, Manpower.
 Design & implement strategic Supply Chain projects.
 Defining the performance matrices & monitoring the score.
 Optimizing process & creating supply reliability by outsourcing / contracting non value adding activity to Toller.
 Calculate service level indicator & report.
 Drive root cause analysis & corrective actions for gaps between actual and planned performance.
 Leading team of 5 direct reports.





Inventory Management:

 Inventory planning to maintain at a target of 65 DIV Days.
 Keeping tab on slow moving, dead inventory.
 Analysis of Age stock & preventative & corrective action for reduction.

Dimension of Job Role

 Functions - Supply / Demand Planning, Production Planning, Import, Tolling & Merchandize Products.
 Products - Total Products (RM & FG) Group of 45 & SKU level article list of 1000+.
 Manufacturing Sites - 5 Own & 13 Third Party Tolling Sites.
 6 Distribution Warehouses across India.
 Supply service level of more than 85%.

Major Achievements

 Design Planning processes from ground zero & making SOPs.
 Designed & Implemented S&OP.
 Implementation of APO - DP and MRP.
 Supply Chain process set up at BASF Malaysia.
 Reduction in Age stock (>270 Days) from 525, 000 Euro in 2011 to 75, 000 Euro in 2016.
 Reduce Port Detention / Demurrage from 187, 000 Euro - 2011 to Euro 45, 000 -2016.
 Setting up Tolling Network - 4 Tollers in 2011 to 13 Tollers in 2016.
 Maintaining health of Inventory by controlling CZCZ2 inventory 4-5% of OIV & X category of material above 60%.
 Lead cross functional team - Green field plant (Nellore in South India) for operational readiness & on time go live.

Assistant Manager - Supply chain في Virgin Mobile India
  • الهند - أحمد اباد
  • يونيو 2008 إلى يونيو 2011

 Design Demand Planning process.
 Co-ordinate with Sales/Marketing Team in getting Forecast numbers and Promos/Schemes/new activities and making Demand Plan / Supply Plan.
 Distribution Network Design
 Distribution planning of finished products.
 Inventory Planning & keeping the stock at Optimum level so to avoid stock out situation and avoid excess inventory at all stock points.
 Warehouse & Logistics procurement
 End to End Warehouse Management.
 Setting up SOPs for distribution operations.
 Defining matrices to evaluate performance of service providers.
 Ensuring zero variance against physical stock.
 Drive various initiatives related to Cost Optimization at regional and country level.
 Works with regional / national teams to implement key distribution restructuring projects and builds logistics network for Virgin India.
 Ensuring on time in full (OTIF).




Major Achievements

 Restructure distribution network by rationalising warehouses.
 Achieved saving of 60 Lacs Indian Rupees in rationalisation of warehouse.
 Introduce common Recharge Voucher for all the circles to create common Inventory pool & reduce inventory to 7 days from 20 days.

Assistant Manager - Supply chain في Reliance Retail Ltd
  • الهند - مومباي
  • ديسمبر 2006 إلى يونيو 2008

 Supply chain process design (joined this organisation during launch in India)
 Setting up Demand Management Process & designing templates to capture the data.
 Define sell-out forecasts, parameters for safety stock, and calendar of orders
 Replenishment Planning (Non Food FMCG).
 Ensure optimum stock and SKU level in all the stores of the region & at Warehouses.
 Arriving at the merchandising plan for the existing as well as new stores along with the help of sales teams.
 Development & Monitoring of Supply plans to meet demand of Stores.
 Ensure new store dispatches are managed in most efficient and cost effective manner.
 Reporting on and managing the inventory levels, highlighting risks and actions
 Supervising monthly/weekly actual receipt of suppliers based on schedule receipt & actual sales.
 Inventory Planning & doing ageing analysis.
 Monitoring the Space Utilization of regional DCs.
 Evaluating Performance of Logistic Service provider & provide periodic feedback for further improvements.
 To monitor and track product movement, category contribution and slow movers and distress inventory with regional sales teams and initiate actions.
 Manage the activities required to develop safety stocks levels that support the service level targets by product, while optimizing the inventory investment and targeted inventory turns

Major Achievements
 Successful roll out of Retail operation & supported (Supply Chain) launch of 32 stores in multiple formats

Jr.Executive - Production Planning في Hitachi Home & Life Solution (India) Ltd
  • الهند - أحمد اباد
  • أكتوبر 2002 إلى مارس 2004

 Production Planning for Coil Shop
 Scheduling of the Operations of each Work Station in Coil Shop
 Taking input from supply chain planner about scheduling of Assembly line & deriving production schedule for Coil Shop.
 Providing Coils at Assembly line based on JIT concept.
 Work with minimum level of WIP
 Lead Kanban & 5S Projects for Coil Shop.
 Manpower Planning
 Prepared and submitted MIS reports for the reference of the top management.
 Execution of 30k Plan.
 Arranged the new layout of Coil shop.

Major Achievements

 Achieved 84% increase in productivity by Process Improvement at Leak Test station.
 Successfully installation of a Mechanical Expander & stream line production, which helped us to remove bottleneck & improve productivity by 50%.

الخلفية التعليمية

ماجستير, Operations
  • في Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research
  • مايو 2006
بكالوريوس, Mechanical
  • في Vishweshvaraiah Technological University
  • يونيو 2002
الثانوية العامة أو ما يعادلها, Science
  • في Navchetal
  • أكتوبر 1997

⇨ Represented School & College in Volley Ball

Specialties & Skills

Inventory Management
Production Planning
Demand Planning
Supply Chain Management
FORECASTS
INVENTORY
PETROCHEMICAL
Network Design, Distribution & Warehousing
Chemical & Retail
Supply Chain Management
procurement

اللغات

الانجليزية
متمرّس
الهندية
متمرّس
الغوجاراتية
متمرّس
العربية
مبتدئ

العضويات

Active Member of "Khidmat" an NGO
  • Member

التدريب و الشهادات

CPIM (الشهادة)
تاريخ الدورة:
June 2004
صالحة لغاية:
May 2006