Demand Planning Supervisor
Al Futtaim Automotive & Machinery Company
Total years of experience :16 years, 10 Months
• Ensuring timely and cost-effective supply of spare parts for 7 brands.
• Ownership of the inventory budget, freight budget and OTIF (On-time-in-full) KPIs.
• Supervising order processing, resolving issues with internal customers and suppliers.
• Building a robust communication and integrated planning structure with internal customers. Process optimization.
• Reviewing contract terms and SLAs with suppliers, resolving issues.
• AGILE Product Owner for development of AI-Enabled Product-Lifecycle-Management Tools for spare parts of 560 Dubai city public buses.
• Leading the Six Sigma DMAIC implementation in the department.
• • Leading the demand planning and inventory team for the MEA Region.
• Ownership of the inventory budget and OTIF (On-time-in-full) KPIs.
• Building comprehensive inventory & transport tools/ models, organizing JIT logistics.
• Leading process optimization across logistics/inventory departments and with distributors.
• Introduction of DD-MRP inventory control system.
• Leading a new Data Management / Master Data project
• Support of product life cycle management function.
• Slow-moving stock prevention and elimination.
Projects for: USAID, Saipem ENI, Burren Energy, Dresser-Rand.
• Managing 3PL operations world-wide, via air and sea, railways and trucking.
• Project budgets, routings, risk assessments, load plans, schedules, execution.
• Oil Rig mobilizations, heavy-lift and oversize cargoes.
• Supervision of logistics and warehouse teams.
• World-wide free-zone and bonded warehousing
• Account management
• Negotiation of contracts with providers.
• Vendor evaluation.
Projects for Petronas Carigali, TengizChevroil, Lukoil, BELAZ, governments, etc.
• Handing every aspect of order processing and international freight from sending the order to the manufacturer thro delivery to the end user.
• Problem solving with manufacturers, forwarders and clients, ensuring conformance to agreed terms, schedules and documentation requirements.
• Land, sea and air freight cargo movements across EU, USA, Middle East, Russia+CIS.
• Consolidations and warehousing in free-zones and bonded warehouses.
• Procurement, Order Processing and claims management.
• Owning the logistics budget and on-time-delivery KPIs.
• Offering improvements to the existing inter-department QMS-ISO procedures.
• Organizing Factory Acceptance Tests and third-party inspections.
• Set up project schedules, staff and delivery time-tables.
• Facility and Fleet management.
• Supervision of class-С warehouse, of 800 sq.m.
• Technical and safety setup of premises.
• Procurement of materials and services.
• Handling customer complaints.
• Coordination of inbound logistics.
