Deputy Manager, Supply Chain
Dawlance Group of Companies
Total years of experience :4 years, 10 Months
Dawlance Group of Companies
Deputy Manager, Supply Chain July 2011 - Sep 2012
This exposure familiarized me with the practical aspects of managing suppliers and indenters comprehensively, increasing my negotiation and communication expertise and implementing purchase control procedures to improve procurement practices and techniques.
I also look after the whole range of operational activities from purchase requisition to purchase order using Oracle 11i as the ERP System. My goal here is to make the procedures system dependent rather than individual dependent. Negotiating and building healthy relationships with suppliers, inspecting and monitoring monthly shipments and claims, and finding multiple sources for import items are also a key areas under my KPIs.
Key responsibilities handled: • Issuance of Production plans for all products and factories.
• Updating and monitoring PSI files (Production, Sales & Inventory)
• ASCP and MRP Run
• Order placement to Suppliers: o Relationship building with existing and at the same time finding new sources.
o Price negotiations and value buying.
o Follow up for shipments status and claims.
o Monitoring suppliers overall performance and managing contracts
Achievements and Implementation: • Checklist and Price variation module for correct pricing and sourcing
• Purchase Control procedures and Suppliers/Indenter's KPI implementation
• Daily Commodity and Forex prices
• Achieved benchmark of finding 3 Suppliers each for all top 20 Import Items
• More than 1 Million USD saving in Import Purchases over last fiscal year from negotiations
• Achieved 90% shipments on/before time in the fiscal year 2011-2012.
Dawlance Group of Companies
Assistant Manager, Supply Chain June 2009 - July 2011
Key responsibilities handled: • Collects requirements from the production department and designs specifications and budget for the raw material.
• Day to day management of procurement operations, to ensure workload is being prioritized in the most efficient manner.
• Regular interactions with the China based Vendor team, who are focused on delivering product as quickly and accurately as possible.
• Taking ownership of the communications around inbound goods processing at Dawlance.
• Developing relationships with cross functional partners, external vendors and customers
• Management of Transportation - both inbound and outbound. This will include performance reporting, cost management and regular supplier reviews.
• Implement approved procurement and contract management strategies, policies and procedure for the organization to minimize risk and ensure that the company meets the requirements for open, fair and transparent procurement practices.
Macter Pharmaceutical,
Senior Officer, Material Management Feb 2008 - June 2009
Key responsibilities handled: • Supported Corporate Relationship Manager in all their day-to-day distribution needs.
• Develops and implements effective methodologies and procedures for vendor evaluation.
• Negotiates with the vendors and places order for the raw materials and makes sure that the placed orders are delivered on time
• Supervises shipping of the materials to ensure that they there are no defective items in the materials
• Measure vendor performance, cancel contract, suspend or implement department proceeding on vendor not meeting performance requirements
• Supervises the inventory available and generates monthly inventory report to be presented to the higher officials
Pakistan State Oil Dec 2007 - March 2008
Management Trainee, Supply Chain
Key responsibilities handled: • To create purchase order in Oracle 11i.
• Respond to factory issues regarding purchase orders and receipts.
• To coordinate Oracle issues with CCD and MIS Dept.
• Reporting material management for ordering purpose.
• Resolving problems and reporting issues as necessary.
Aston University 2012-2013 MSc International Business - Good Pass Awarded: Aston Business School's Scholarship Core Modules: Marketing Management, Operations Management, International Business, International Marketing, Economic Environment in Business, Operations Strategy for Industry, Strategic Marketing Dissertation Project: Effects of Retail Price fluctuation on Retail Sales at Tesco. - the six-month research project aimed to do detailed quantitative analysis on sales figures of Tesco in different categories and comparing it with overall retail price movement for same category, for which I did correlation, regression and dependency analysis with retail price fluctuation over last 5 years period.
University of Karachi 2003-2007 BSc Software Engineering - 1st class First Division Core Modules: Project Management, Process Management, Object-Oriented Programming, Consumer Behaviour, Macro Economics, Micro Economics, Web-Designing, Business Strategy, Corporate Strategy, People Management. Project: Design of a Web-based Knowledge Management - the idea behind the system was to use the mass collaboration by different users. This study has exposed me to the fascinating field of wikinomics and its immense potential which can be capitalized by mass collaboration of people around the globe using Web 2.0. This online portal helps quick and secure identification, acquisition, development and sharing of explicit and tacit knowledge, thus benefiting individuals & organizations at micro level and society at macro level.