Syed Ahsan Ahmed

• Achieved €9.5M savings through Inventory mix optimization and strategic supplier negotiations.
• Achieved additional €12.5M cash saving by moving seasonal stock inventory under VMI model.
• Developed a global spend cost forecasting system, reducing net material cost impact cycle time by 27%.
• Secured €8M cash flow by leading cross-functional teams to mitigate SC disruptions during the Red Sea Crisis.
• Reduced raw tea inventory by 73%, releasing €12.82M in cash and closure of 3P warehouses.
• Analysed agricultural commodity trends i.e. tea and raw materials, for strategic sourcing & Price forecasting.
• Maintained 100% Rainforest Alliance compliance across the site.
• Mitigated a critical supply risk for a key raw material, ensuring zero production disruptions by qualifying and
onboarding an alternative supplier within a 60-day timeframe, securing a dual-source strategy.

• Delivered 15% YoY TCO reduction in strategic packaging via value engineering and performance-linked negotiations.
• Drove OTIF from 88% to 93.5% in 6 months through scorecard implementation and supplier collaboration.
• Achieved $2.5M annual savings via cross-functional packaging and logistics optimization initiatives.
• Accelerated strategic supplier integration by 25%, ensuring full compliance from first delivery
• Led comprehensive supplier evaluations USQS (Unilever Sustainable Qualifying Standards) and SMETA audits, ensuring 100% compliance and driving 40% improvement in ethical/sustainability metrics.

• Achieved €5.3M savings through Inventory mix optimization and strategic supplier negotiations
• Increase RA & sustainable RM sourcing from 62% to 100% and support Rainforest Alliance Road map
• Day on Hand reduction by 11 Day & releasing €11.2M cash flow by reducing long distance Origin complexity
• Mentored 10+ team members on Digital transformaƟon
• Lead S4 Hana (SAP) system deployment

• Achieved annual saving on POS items by €2.50M.
• Complexity reductions Purchase Requisition till supplier payment through Ariba spend management system
• Eliminated bulk orders through, comprehensive research, identifying alternative suppliers that offered better
pricing and quality freeing up €73K in cash flow, reducing lead times by 22%
• Implementation Ariba Spend Management System with the integration of Ariba PO in SAP.
• Catalogue management of 630 suppliers containing +25000 items.

• Achieved €0.09M savings in Cisco system deployment in all factories.
• Achieved €0.12M saving during office space renovaƟon & IT equipment installation.