Responsible for overall supply-chain management including Inbound/Outbound transportation. three Distribution facilities.• Designing, planning, implementation, and management of the routing of all the domestic inbound shipments to the distribution centers, and the delivery to all store locations.• Reduced overall carrier rates by leveraging my relationships with major carriers, understanding carrier pricing models and using general negotiation.• Managing inbound/ outbound transportation of regional distribution centers to support 250 stores throughout the US market and Puerto Rico to meet the high demand of retail sales industry. • Successfully managed 3PL business partners (warehousing, transportation and temporary labor) to achieve the company’s highest sales growth especially during the retail holiday seasons.• Improved communications upstream/ downstream (buyer/ merchants and logistics) by taking proactive measures to meet periodic promotions’ dates, and support the growth of new store openings/ the reallocation of goods and fixtures in case of store closings. • Enhanced performance metrics to identify gaps/ opportunities within supply chains and taking measures with vendors to shorten the lead time.• Analyzed, controlled and maintained operational costs while maximizing efficiency within the supply chain. • Manage Logistics and Distribution productivity by auditing invoices (including: DC supplies, labor, equipment maintenance, transportation and Parcel) and by tracking multiple KPIs.• Leveraged information technology to gain complete oversight of the supply chain allowing my team to forecast, reduce unloading delays and become a leaner operation.

• Receipt of purchase orders from purchasing department, based on the sales orders in process.• Contact the supplier chain for preferencing, i.e. highest quality, lowest price.• Issuance of purchase order, and agree of shipping details, dates, shipping term, documents needed for customs, requested time, and communicate to purchasing department on estimated receipt dates.• Contact the forwarder for shipping execution after contacting the supplier, and communicate for delivery terms, shipment collection, and packing.• Receipt of shipment documents from forwarder, and forwarding to broker, and completion of clearance process, after insuring completion, and accuracy of shipments documents.• Review of clearance, and customs fees, and insured the adequate calculation of applicable customs.• Receipt of shipment in company warehouses, and insures the safety of the shipment physical status.• Cost the shipment value, and communicate to accounting for accurate costing of shipment.• Filling of all shipment details for future references, and historical measurements.

Followed on shipments details, varies from incoming, and outgoing shipments:• Meet with customer shipment needs of transport, arranged with forwarder agent for receipt of shipments.• Managed the shipments logistics; consolidation of shipments, bill of lading issuance, insurance handling, monitored shipping dates, and ensured the accuracy of delivery schedules, and followed up on completion of shipments needed documents.• Handled the shipments receipts in ports, and followed up on safe receipt of shipments, and supervise the insurance claim cases, and ensured timely compensation.• Managed the delivery of the shipments documents to the customer for customs, and authorities logistical purposes, and ensured the timely clearance of shipments.• Prepared the customers freight charges, and fees for services provided. Followed up on customers open balances, and collections ownership.

Responsible for importing all the IT equipment to Cairo International Airport, Terminal 3 Project.• Contact the vendor and determine the mode of shipment, agree of shipping details, documents needs for customs, requested time, and communicate to purchasing department on estimated receipt dates.• Contact the forwarder for shipping execution after contacting the supplier, and communicate for delivery terms, shipment collection, and packing.• Receipt of shipment documents from forwarder, and forwarding to broker, and completion of clearance process, after insuring completion, and accuracy of shipments documents.• Review of clearance, customs tariff fees and duties, and insured the adequate calculation of applicable customs.• Managed the delivery process at the customer’s warehouse, follow up all the government official receipts procedures and inspections.• Insure receiving a proof of delivery with payment release for the delivered equipment to the project.• Filling of all shipments details for future references, and submit all the needed documents to close the project.