Key Result Areas:• Developed and executed demand forecasts by SKU, incorporating the Sales & Marketing Action Plan, in alignment with company policies.• Ensured stock covers were within target levels and facilitated seamless product transfers.• Verified that incoming goods had the necessary purchase orders in advance and investigated discrepancies, reporting variances.• Collaborated with various departments, including Retail, trade, marketing, and B2B, to maintain an accurate and timely activity overview.• Managed portfolio and product life cycle, optimizing inventory levels, and implementing launch and phase-out programs.• Calculated quantities for transfer to retail location (through min-max), coordinating with warehouse team and transport teams.• Monitor expiry date of Coffee and Food items and alert in advance for any potential expiry issues, Manage Inventory write-off process across all locations. Highlight critical SKUs that are overstock or under stock to take necessary actions.Highlights:• Established POWER BI reports which help management to view live information and optimized decision-making capacity. Like Sales Performance Report, Promotion Tracker, Inventory Overview Report.• Developed automated Excel reports using SQL and Power Query which help to work with more efficiently with grate accuracy.• Monthly reports - Sales Dashboard for Retail, Trade, Ecommerce, and B2B channel, Joint Business Plan for Top Management, and NORA reporting (Weekly and Monthly).

• Develop effective forecast models for GCC (UAE, KSA, Bahrain, Lebanon, Kuwait, and Oman) based on industry trends and demand patterns.• Successfully communicate forecast and inventory estimations to management, monitor, and report on essential changes in sales forecasts, budgets, and business strategies.• Making purchase orders and follow-up of orders with the third-party logistics provider (3PL) and ensuring 99% on-time delivery is accurate.Highlights:• Optimizes inventory level at all GCC locations based on forecast and lead time, reducing stock out and excess inventory.

Growth Path:Mar’14- Jan’17: Supply Chain PlannerSince Jan’17:Sr. Supply Chain PlannerTeam Size: 2Key Result Areas:• Prepared statistical forecasts to support new product launches, special promotions, and regular sales volume using historical data, consumer trends, and marketing/sales input.• Successfully managing supply chain of distributing goods in warehouse from manufacturing unit to achievement of targets within specified parameters.• Pivotal conducts gap analysis, assessing production capacities, inventory levels, and unit-based contribution margins to foster alignment among business functions.• Created production schedules by considering deadlines for customer orders and sales forecasting.• Ensuring maintenance of optimum customer service level OTIF above 90% for five Business Unit.Highlights:• Drive the whole S&OP cycle via demand review, supply review, pre-S&OP, and final S&OP meetings.• Created various excel based planning tools like production and demand plan template for five business, I.e., Pasta & Noodles, Flour, Semolina, Oats, Feed Mill, and Poultry Farms.• Performed pivotal role in successful outsourcing of raw material to IFFCO and finished goods to Emirates Macaroni Factory.

Key Result Areas:• Delivered optimal finished material inventory targets through incorporating supply chain strategies, product characteristics, price tiers, service goals, lead-time, and supply chain cost.• Managed Inventory Analyst Tool and provided a recommendation on inventory level by running what-if scenario to understand the effect while changing various parameters like manufacture cycle time, receipt period & so on.• Established direct communication with U.S. supply chain partners and acquired information to work out the total landed cost of a material needed and eliminate gaps in supply chain performance.Highlights:• Successfully optimized inventory level of Big G division by changing supply chain parameters like cycle time, MOQ, and so on, resulting in the reduction of inventory level from 32 Days of supply to 28 Days of supply, which turns into significant dollar savings.• The merit of developing an EXCEL based template to track down the performance of inventory on a month-on-month basis also helped to understand the trend and taking proactive actions to deal with the future short comings.• Gained standardization of work processes by Using CI tools Like 5-S, Why – Why, OPLs.• Leveraged Inventory Analyst Tool - a multi-echelon inventory optimization solution to achieve both strategic and tactical inventory objectives.

Key Result Areas:• Ensured maintenance of inventory level (for E-commerce) and purchase raw materials for production every week.• Managed three departments, such as Refinery, Casting, and Machine Shop, to provide production orders and maintain line balancing through planning and scheduling for the new sales order.• Developed and presented Sales & Operational Planning (S & OP) presentation every month, which includes Sales Forecast, Master Production Schedule (MPS), Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP), and DashBoard containing different parameter like MAPE (Mean Absolute Percentage Error), line-item fill rate (LIFR), Dispatch item Fill Rate (DIFR), Plan attainment and First Pass Yield.Achievements:• Successfully implemented cost-saving measures to achieve a substantial reduction in worker days, production cost, raw materials, and energy consumption.• Pivotal in implementing inventory control management techniques: ABC Analysis & MUSIC 3D (Multiple Unit Selective Inventory Control 3 Dimensions).• Managed 200 products while maintaining a customer service level of 95% with a minimum inventory level. These products are tie-up with www.Pepperfry.com, www.Ebay.com, www.naaptol.com, www.yebhi.com & www.shopclues.com, which helps us to brand minted products.

Key Result Areas:- Handled all the documents regarding the setting up monthly and quarterly procurement plan. Done ABC classification of vendors on the basis of criteria like cost, quality, timely delivery etc and also the development of new vendors. - Evaluated vendors & negotiating the price, delivery schedule and terms and conditions with them. Handled the timely clearance of payments & handling vendor inquiries.- Development of Programming and Graphics PLC (Flex Logix) for various projects which involved Panel Designing in AUTOCAD, Logic Development (Rs logix 5000) and Creating Graphics for HMI (Factory view talk).Projects Handled: RCF Project - The main objective of the Project was based on making automation of section of plant using PLC.