Head of Supply Chain
Lotte Akhtar Beverages (Pvt.) Ltd. (PepsiCo LHR)
Total years of experience :18 years, 8 Months
• Day to day Demand Planning on the basis of RSF and materials availability.
• Successfully converted MS Excel based Demand Planning into Advanced Supply Chain Program (ASCP) for more accuracy and productivity.
• Create accurate forecasting models based on specific industry trends and spending levels.
• Gather the forecasts, examine them for outliers, and then discuss and evaluate them.
• Maintain the Production Planning schedule as per weekly S&OP and AOP plans.
• Develop and maintain an accurate rolling 12-month supply and demand forecast by analyzing historical sales data and market trends, considering external factors that have the potential to cause disruptions, such as seasonal changes, promotional activities, economic conditions, product changes, raw material and packaging updates, and regulatory requirements.
• Keep track of significant adjustments to budgets, company plans, and sales projections, and report on them.
• Managing Toll Manufacturing to meet day to day sales target.
• Managing Procurement (Imports & Local of Spare Parts, IT equipments, Machinery, New Plants and Direct & Indirect Materials as per their Min Stock Level).
• Working on Digitalization in Procurement (Automation in P2P, Digital Sourcing) for improvisation of time & money.
• AOP for Procurement for better planning & decision making.
• Key focus on Annual Cost Saving Plan.
• Close liaison with Project Team to help them for timely execution in their different Projects.
• Managing Freight Forwarding and Custom Clearance by 3PLs.
• Responsible for Negotiation for Contracts Renewal. (Insurance, 3PL Contracts & Rental Contracts)
• Key member of Sourcing Committee.
• Vendors Selection and Developments as well as Material Developments before time to meet on time production plan.
• Quarterly Suppliers Ledgers Reconciliation.
• Managing Primary and Secondary Distribution.
• Managing 3PL Transporters to support all distribution channels.
• Managing Plant Warehouse and Remote Warehouses for Finished Goods, Raw & Packaging Materials.
• HSE & Fire Fighting Training to Warehouse Staff
• Daily Cross Functional meeting for Production Plan as per Sales Trend and available materials.
• Collaborate with Sales, Finance to meet Sales targets and Vendors payments.
• Responsible for Annual Appraisals of team members.
Responsibilities:
• Strategically plan and manage logistics, warehouse, transportation and customer services.
• Direct, optimize and coordinate full order cycle.
• Liaise and negotiate with 3PL transporters to minimize the distribution cost within agreed Lead Times.
• Keep track of quality, quantity, stock levels, delivery times, transport costs and efficiency.
• Arrange warehouse, catalog goods, plan routes and process shipments.
• Resolve any arising problems or complaints
• Meet the daily compliance of all dispatches
• Meet cost, productivity, accuracy and timelines targets
• Maintain metrics and analyze data to assess performance and implement improvements
• Comply with laws, regulations, ISO and DRAP Act, 1976 requirements
• Monitor products export processes to ensure compliance with regularity requirement.
• Effective planning and execution of Distribution of goods to all local shops and international destinations according to dispatch order.
• Verification of all shipments before dispatching regarding the address, palletization and other details required for Air, sea and by road cargo
• Liaise with ERP/IT Team for monitoring the WMS accuracy
• Supervise, coach and train warehouse workforce
• Responsible for Appraisals of all Warehouse Team
Responsibilities:
• Implement the best warehouse practices, especially at distributors setup across all Pakistan as per Drug Act, 1976.
• Maintain Inventory Levels at all Finish Goods Warehouses as well as at Distributor Levels throughout the Pakistan.
• Make efficient and effective Strategies to Control Expiry. (May use IST Strategy).
• Arrange warehouse, catalog goods, plan routes and process shipments.
• Negotiation with 3PL Transporters for Stocks Movement (Raw Material & Finished Goods).
• Make Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) to manage overall Distribution Cost.
• Managing 70 Distributors across Pakistan. (Contracts Management, Inventory Management, Cash Management, Replenishment, Sales & Distribution Management and Implementation of SOPs and Policies).
• Production planning by close liaison with 2 own manufacturing units and 7 contract manufacturers on the basis of Sales Data.
• Push Sales and Marketing Team for fast Liquidation of Slow Moving Products.
• Process the expired products from retailers & distributors accordingly.
• Maintain good, professional relationship with all the customers, both internal and external. Develop a customer complaint handling system for service levels and effectively resolve all complaints received within agreed timeline.
• Continuous visits at Primary & Secondary Distributors throughout the Pakistan.
• Conduct the Training for Distributors at different cities.
• Close Liaison with Sales Team and Distributors for efficient and effective supplies.
• Working to integrate all stakeholders (Horizon, Primary Distributors, and Secondary Distributor etc) to get the real time data.
• Managing Complete Warehousing, Replenishment of Distributors Sale Order Fortnightly & Complete Logistics.
• Route Mapping for company owned fleet to reduce distribution cost.
• Provide leadership to reporting staff to develop them into a high-performance team and managing their KPIs and performance appraisal.
Position : Logistics & Warehouse Executive
Reporting to: Head of Sourcing and Logistics Responsibilities:
• Successfully Managed Central Distribution Center (CDC) and Warehouse, product inflow from sources, outflow to 500+ retail outlets and 13 wholesale depots.
• Stock Put away as per Inventory Classification (ABC) to make eficient and efective daily operations.
• Dispatch Order Management (Master Order, Pick & Pack, Consolidation of shipments, Dispatch).
• Manage the Returned Stocks from Market against Customer Claims.
• Monitoring return stock percentage with reverse logistics cost.
• Monitor the product aging report according to FIFO Inventory method and to save extra carrying cost.
• Monitor the space utilization of warehouse to reduce the warehousing cost per month.
• Daily Cycle Count of random SKUs.
• Allocation vs. dispatch vs. receiving lead time comparison to maintain the productivity of warehouse team.
• Coordinate with Planning, Production, Sourcing, and Accounts & Budgeting sections for necessary objective synchronization leading to achievement of companys overall objective.
• Participate in planning function to improve supply chain eficiency & achieving departmental goals & objectives.
• To monitor product delivery accuracy, lead time and maintain overall logistics operations.
• Dealing with Third Party Logistics (3PLs) and logistics operations to deliver the product at 500+ retail outlets, 13 wholesale depots and nationwide institutional sales.
• Provide transportation solutions and support for the supply chain and commercial organizations supporting the needs of the business.
• Lead and support in establishing agreed logistics processes, KPIs and cost reduction targets.
• Manage freight movements and 3rd party logistics (3PL) contractors.
• Constantly monitor internal decision-making processes for transport mode selection and suggest/implement adjustments.
• Implement 3rd party contract management and utilization strategies and report on both qualitative and quantitative performance of contracted parties.
• Maintain up to date contract database of all logistics contracts including proactive alerts and timelines.
• Negotiation of Freight and warehousing cost with 3PLs.
• Monthly Transporters Evaluation Report of Zone Wise according to Agreed Lead Times.
• Responsible for performance assessment, training & development of my team.
• Key member of cross functional team regarding the elimination of ONWAY Inventories.
• Introduce the new horizons of Supply Chain Models for the smooth operations efectively & eficiently.
• Strong follows up on queries and complaints of customers.
Responsibilities:
• Responsible to maintain the minimum stock levels of all Warehouse Inventory.
• Process the Purchase Orders for Procure the required materials.
• Coordination with all other departments for smooth operations.
• Manage the Auction for scraped materials.
• Issue the Inventory to all other departments.
• Distribute the Inventory to all Campuses, situated all over the Pakistan after their demands.
• Conduct the Internal Audits monthly basis or suddenly to maintain the accuracy of
Inventory.
Position : Warehouse Coordinator
Responsibilities:
• Setup layout & space management, work organization chart, procedures such as SOP.
• Manage stock control, the self-assured receipt, storage, retrieval and timely delivery of goods, shipment loading & transferring, document record keeping and data entry into system.
• Planning, organizing and controlling of Warehouse over-all operations.
• Constantly plan out all warehouse resources and activities in relation to company objectives and set targets.
• Follow up & control daily absence and over time.
• Ensure that workplaces health and safety requirements are met and take responsibility for the security of the building and stock.
• Maintain housekeeping of warehouse and surrounding area.
• Issue Inventory report, IN/OUT status report, dead stock report, goods aging report, consumption report and manpower status report to Warehouse Manager.
• Follow up Oracle program against with actual activities.
• Implement cost reduction principle in all aspects of warehouse transactions and activities.
• Audit of daily labor and billing reports.
• Keep an eye on whole warehouse operations.
Achievements:
• PKR 154 Millions Saving for the 2023 by hard negotiation against Budget.
• Implemented of Automation in Procurement System to get the maximum efficiency in complete P2P system and in Custom Duty Taxes at Lotte Akhtar Beverages PepsiCo.
• Improved the Annual maintenance time by 25% through efficient planning of Import and with International suppliers, which helped to complete Annual maintenance before agreed timelines to meet Sales Target.
• Increased the existing warehouse space by 44% within available resources by re-engineering of racking system at CCL Pharma.
• Introduced Master Order (Wave) to increase the Order Processing efficiency at CCL Pharma.
• Completed a mega project to establish a centralized mega warehouse in Islamabad to save the distribution cost and other miscellaneous expenses for Horizon Pharmaceuticals (Pvt.) Ltd.
• Introduced the integration concept among all distributors to get real time data for many others analysis in Horizon Pharmaceuticals (Pvt.) Ltd.
• Decreased all LTL & FTL freight rates nationwide for SSC business (shoe distribution) by Avg. 34% for the year 2015 as compare to 2014 by hard negotiation. And it will be a big saving in monetary terms (in Million) at the end of 2015. That is my big achievement.
• Saved PKR 18.6 Million by best negotiating with 3PL transporters as Logistician in SSC for the year 2013.
• I joined SSC in Oct-2010. There was manual freight forwarding. I have converted this model to computerize since 2011 and now freight is being checked by just one click by applying MS applications.
• Developed online integrated system with the help of IT department for Warehousing Management System in VU of Pakistan.
• I joined RBL (Riaz Bottlers Pvt Ltd.) in May, 2005 as shift Incharge Raw Materials, I exhibited attitude of professionalism and led our department on new excelsior competitive footing. I came out as a team leader who is capable of leading and driving the team coherently aligned with the company vision and perspective. In
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