Tahir Yousufi,  (Procurement & material control)

Tahir Yousufi

(Procurement & material control)

Abdullah Abdul Aziz Suleman Contracting Es

Location
Pakistan - Karachi
Education
Master's degree, Marketing
Experience
24 years, 10 Months

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Total years of experience :24 years, 10 Months

(Procurement & material control) at Abdullah Abdul Aziz Suleman Contracting Es
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since October 2017

 Liaison with all respective divisions and maintain demand & Supply and inventory levels and generate
requisitions to procure raw /finished material and ensure deliveries on time followed by frequent visits,
meetings and follow ups.
 Working closely with Supply Team, Warehouse and Logistics in order to plan capacity, safety measures,
movement of goods and updated correspondence with all relevant divisions and suppliers.
 Close coordination with finance & marketing division to keep an eye on the monthly reports and keep working
on continuous improvement / negotiation on contracts with suppliers for cost efficiency that gives ultimate
profitability in the accounts.
 Managing team to get the desired results on routine basis and provide relevant guidance and coaching to
them.
 Managing all reports for monthly stock, budgeting, performance presentations on system.

Manager / Sr. Manager Operations at Al-Karam Textile Mills (Pvt.) Ltd. ……………Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • March 2011 to May 2017

• Liaison with all respective departments and plan & streamline things to finalize monthly planning as per the set export targets.
• Lead a team to supervise USA and Europe customers like Ikea, Walmart, Hollander, Tisa, Robert Allen, Revman, West Elm, Pottery Barn, JCPenny and monitor their Replenishment demands.
• Learn a lot with Hotel and institutional customers and developed number of new qualities, blends, weaves, processes, confection and packaging.
• Ensure to follow good practices of Supply Chain Management.
• Ensure all orders are executed timely and efficiently.
• Lead to resolve marketing & business operational issues on daily basis and taking decisions to avoid delays in the process.
• Review cost sheet thoroughly and negotiate rigidly with relevant suppliers in order to set price competitive for customer.
• Participation in the meeting with respective departments for brainstorming sessions and in making strategies/policies and to make system Lean.
• Outsourced resource-intensive activities of order management and fulfilment to a 3PL provider in order to lower the cost per unit
• Engaged in sales and technical consultancy and trainings for excellence in work.
• Review of targets, budgets, inventory levels, KPIs and finalize reports. Also assess the process and strategy to increase turns per year.

Manager Marketing at Al-Karam Textile Mills (Pvt) Ltd
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • May 2007 to February 2011

• Worked with many customers for USA directly (Westpoint Home, JCPenny and many) or through buying offices and headed a team.
• Worked as a Replenishment Analyst for Walmart and Ikea and performed merchandising responsibilities up to remarkable satisfaction with the team.
• Responsible for costing/pricing, product development of Home Textile products (Duvet, Sheet sets, Curtains, Kitchen Linen, Comforters etc).
• Monitor and ensure that execution against targets is made efficiently.
• 100% retention of customers and ensure ONTIME DELIVERY in 95% of the case.
• Developed new business / customers

Marketing Executive at Al-Karam Textile Mills (Pvt) Ltd
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • March 1999 to April 2007

Handling inquiries and price quotation.
Sample development, follow up.
working on orders & execution on system.
Coordinating with all production units and customer.
updated correspondence with units and customers.
weekly & monthly report for customers and management.

Education

Master's degree, Marketing
  • at Preston University
  • September 2004

Completed extensive regular program of 2 years comprising thesis, projects, presentations and great conceptual activities. Covered major interesting subjects relevant to professional career.

Specialties & Skills

Hometextile Merchandising
Business Management
Supply Chain Management
Negotiation
Analytical Approach
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
FINANCE
LOGISTICS
MANAGEMENT
MARKETING
MEETING FACILITATION
BUDGETING
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
COACHING
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

Diploma Supply Chain Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2013
Diploma Certified Supply Chain Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2017

Hobbies

  • Business Process Re-engineering
    Worked with consultants for different projects of different departments and successfully achieved results by improving working efficiently for staff for routine works. Also worked in detail and for long term basis for IT system utilities, making it user friendly with logical conditions and improved system a lot for marketing and other production staff.