Warehouse Operations Managers
Almarai Company
Total years of experience :32 years, 5 Months
Directs the efficient, cost-effective and safe warehouse operation in both Bakery plant & Poultry processing plant where located Hail region
Key Activities
Accomplishes warehouse operations human resource objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees communicating job expectations planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions planning and reviewing compensation actions enforcing policies and procedures.
Achieves warehouse operations operational objectives by contributing warehouse operations information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; monitoring productivity, quality standards resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends.
Meets warehouse operations financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
Roles and responsibilities:- To manage and maintain the effective & and safety work environment of the Warehouse operations and coordinate with distribution centre in Kingdom wide & GCC for total logistics distribution functions.
Overseer both old and new poultry processing plant’s warehouse, and make sure all the shipment to be dispatch according to schedule dispatch plan.
Maintain interrelated Supply Chain relationships between certain functions and ensuring value added support and service, Transport activity arrangements both internal and external customers.
Over looking Capital Project and setting up temperature control warehouses with fully racking for safe work working environment.
Preparing operational SOPs and review existing related to new plant operations
Prepare strategic plan to develop SAP R3 - WMS automated systems by coordinating with IT & SAP support team, shoot to new plant operations.\
Monitoring MHE and other requirements & health & safety activities in operation and raise CAPEX and further process of PR
Team member of ISO 22000 implementation in Transport & logistics Dept
Working as Lead Auditor with under training of Asure Quality New Zealand
1Warehouse expansion project in Nestle PLC Lanka as per next five years their business requirement.
Strategic business solution for Centralizing the existing multi Clients Logistic centres with modern warehouse facility
Responsible for the planning and implementation of continues improving total Warehousing distribution, purchasing budgeting and controlling of retails shop bulk warehouses and yards of below companies
Monitoring of total fleet management approving the quotation for the all maintenance (for 100 vehicles)
Confirm to accounts payable department in HO the receiving of indent items into the different warehouses, seeking clarification of warehouse in charges
Monitoring total purchasing process and approving purchase orders for all local purchasing Guide, Motivate and coaching of Sales and Marketing staff for better performance.
Conducting of stock takes of about 20 branches and super market ware houses and all other super market keeping accurate control of stock.
Monitoring all transaction with export department and organize stuff as per the requirement.
Follow up the early updating of credit notes on sales returns with Accounts Receivable department.
Prepareing all job description for all inventory HOD’s and branch managers.
Prepared SOP for the operation as per the company requirment
To monitor warehousing and distribution operations of Nestle Lanka, Reckkitt Bencisher, Lanka Commodities and another 15 clients at two multi logistics centres Island wide.
Monitoring all the KPI’s those agreed with clients to measures performance of all clients.
Establish KPI’s to monitor Transporter service levels and control cost
Monitor multiple operating functions at the logistics centre facility and maintenance 3PL
Analyse and develop cost effective logistics solutions by identifying best-in-class logistics processes for current customer base and new business opportunities. Co-ordinate and maintain a good relationship with support services i.e.
Internal: Supply chain, Purchasing, Factory, Finance and Legal Departments.
External: Various Independent and Governmental Institutes such as, Export Development Board, Board Of Investment (BOI), Chamber of commerce of Sri Lanka, National Chamber of Exporters, Embassies etc.
Secondary functions
To facilitate continuous process improvement in all areas of operation
Monitor all clients warehouse and multi logistics centres inventory levels and approved variances with analysing the explanation given by branch managers,
To direct proposal development team in identifying key warehouse processes and in calculating staffing, layout solutions, equipment and technology costs.
Project leader for start up of new warehouses and distribution patterns networks
Develop and implement procedures and prepare SOP manual for warehouses.
Identifying transporters, negotiation and finalization of transportation rates
Yearly and Monthly volume projections.
Finding new and potential customers’ and maintain a very good rapport with existing customers.
Maintenance of General Expenses (budgeting, utilization and proper control) total transports fleet about 200 vehicles
To monitor overall operations & KPI ‘s of Nestle Lanka Ltd, . As per the Nestle Lanka Ltd best practices
Provide functional inputs to the Warehouse Managers in their areas of responsibility
To ensure service levels at agreed levels
To ensure vehicle placement and transit reliability at agreed levels
Maintain Transportation service level
Directly involve in initiating and applying of organizational skills in-order to make functions easy and smooth for the department
Monitoring all unconfirmed transfer orders
Open transfer requirements, & change notice
Critical deliveries, negative stocks, interim storage stocks, without movement
ASN receipt & stock in transit
Incoming receipts from external vendors
Inventory controlling
WM stock overview - WM level
Warehouse stock - plant/ Log level shelf-life control & stock counting
Order-to-cash outbound delivery monitor outbound deliveries for picking
Acknowledgement of orders, prepare / despatch weekly production schedule to Supply chain / factory.
Based in Riyadh attached to Main stores and receive all the Products directly from Denmark through Jeddah Seaport.
Allocate all the incoming products Kingdom wide according the Forecast and Budget.
Supervise all the incoming goods and Processes the documents.
Monitor the kingdom wide Date wise stock report and move the products Kingdom wide back and forth accordingly.
Store all the products in their respective temperature Zones in accordance with the civil defense & Municipality (Baladiya) and fire safety guidelines.
Maintain FIFO and FEFO
Maintain the daily check list of the Equipments and all the storage facilities (multiple temperature)
Delegate Manpower Organize Equipment, Storage Space and Transport with the short notice to meet the Market demand.
Authorize all the Return vouchers, Credit notes, and Day end Reports.
Fulfill all the municipality & Health Authority requirement for the facility and for the Staff
Since 1992 I have been working in a fully Computerized environment. I am responsible for the documentation of local and foreign purchases, dispatches and shipments
Maintaining document in accordance with ISO 9001 system procedure and responsible for allocation of spare parts raw materials semi finished goods and finished goods.
I was the active member of implementing of ISO 14001 environment protect certificate
Organise raw & packing material for daily production and update the production schedule as per orders panned.
Supervised a labour work force of twenty personnel and responsible for the quality of the production goods and maintenance of personnel records and production records of the workers.
Subject covered Management of International Health & Safety Health & Safety Practical Application Controlling Workplace Hazards
