Igor Stepanov Email & Phone Number

Москва, Россия

Principal accountabilities:1. Analysis of current supply chain effectiveness; 2. Defining areas for improvements and making proposals on optimization;3. Supply chain processes modeling; 4. Organizational design and defining KPI’s, performance management;5. Business-processes regulation including creation of regulation documents on target business processes operational model;6. Leading a stream within a project team.Projects completed:Largest postal company in Kazakhstan: - Design of operational model for postal and logistics operations processes (transportation, delivery, mail sorting, warehousing);- Creation and optimization of KPI tree and business roles;- Creation of recommendations on fast and long term solutions in postal operations processes.The largest oil and gas company:- Complex audit of inventory management system and material flow management at the stage of acquisition of one of largest Russian oil companies;- Creation of inventory and material flow management operational model within the transformation of procurement system;- Description and regulation of business processes.A large producer of mineral fertilizers:- Detailed description of current processes in inventory management, - Evaluation of existing KPIs, IT, segregation of duties and responsibilities, management reporting on inventory management;- Creating recommendations and initiatives on performance improvement with estimation of economic effect of their implementation (qualitative and quantitative) on key business processes;- Creating prototypes of regulatory documents: inventory management (incl. safety stock, emergency stock), identification and disposition of obsolete stock and metal scrap.One of largest producers of mineral fertilizers:- Creation of recommendations on operations cost reduction in repair and maintenance.

Москва, Россия

Principal accountabilities:1. Ensure effective processes in purchasing planning, inventory management and distribution;2. Managing a team of regional inventory managers;3. Planning of purchases:- short and long term purchase planning with the emphasis on divisions, branches and SKUs;- creation of orders for purchasing;- control over the implementation of purchasing plans;- working out methods and procedures of purchase planning;4. Inventory management:- defining standards and indicators in inventory management;- designing methods of calculation of inventory standards and indicators and optimal quantities of orders;- control over stock levels in accordance with standards and targets;- distribution of stocks, coordination of relocation of stocks between company’s divisions;- minimization of illiquid stock volumes:◦ defining company’s criteria of illiquid stocks;◦ designing the methods of accounting, calculation, classification of illiquid products;◦ working out activities to minimize illiquid stocks and agreeing activities with company’s divisions;◦ coordination and control of performance of activities agreed;5. Participation in creation of company’s strategy on supply and assortment policy;6. Providing both internal and external users with reports on a regular basis or on request.Achievements: - creation of a unified system of inventory management for all company’s subsidiaries- 100% implementation of stock turnover target.

Москва, Россия

Principal accountabilities:1. Recruit, develop and manage a team of supply coordinators.2. Coordination of supplies of finished goods :- defining criteria for accepting and processing orders;- coordinating supplies of new launch products;- solving operational issues on supplies of finished goods i.e., timings, volumes, corrections of primary sales plans within monthly setup volumes;- implementing monthly primary sales plans;- making agreements on transportation tariffs;- interaction with warehouses; ensuring proper shipments from company’s warehouses3. Ensuring stock availability in regional warehouses:- arrangements of stock levels to be maintained in the distributor’s regional warehouses pan Russia and by cities;- monitoring stocks in the distributor’s regional warehouse, revelation of stockouts;- arranging shipments to prevent or eliminate stockouts;- computation of safety stocks at the factories;4. Planning:- adjustments of operational production and shipment plans;- corrections of operational plans and its arrangements with the factories and the distributor;- providing with analytical reports on different aspects of supplies of finished goods (estimations on stock sufficiency and duration, recommendations on how to distribute new launch products by the distributor’s regional warehouses etc.);5. Ensuring submission of local primary sales forecasts in the company’s international SAP/ APO Demand Planning system.Achievements:- creation of Supply Team; - execution of integration of logistics processes – processes connected with supplies of finished goods from factories in Volgograd and Yaroslavl – at acquisition of ABS/ Balcan Star company;- 100% “Sales In” (supplies from factories to 1-st clients in distribution channels, i.e. distributors, wholesalers) plans implementation over the years I have worked for the company.

Moscow, Russia

Principal accountabilities:1. Customer’s Orders Processing:- checking product availability, truck loading;- verifying orders that they meet Company’s inventory strategy;- submission of the customer’s orders into SAP; placing orders in the factory- coordination on transportation issues;- coordinating with the customer on necessary corrections of orders;- coordinating with the factory on ordered volumes to be dispatched;2. Planning:- execution of operational dispatch planning:o to ensure operational production plans meet dispatch plans;o coordinating fine-tunes of the plans between the distributor and production to achieve:§ sales targets;§ Regional Distribution Centers’ (RDC) stocks to be maintained at a needed level;§ optimal capacity utilization;- making reports on dispatch implementation process;- RDCs’ stock data management:§ verification the data;§ processing and analyzing the data in regard to stock requirements;§ preparing and providing necessary stock analysis on requests of adjoining departments.Achievements:- company's order processing system creation.

Москва, Россия

Principal accountabilities:1. Business process optimization:- describing current business processes;- defining weak points in processes and working out decisions to eliminate them;- introduction of decisions made;- control of changes which were introduced.2. Making analytical reports on production issues.

Moscow, Russia

Principal accountabilities:1. Business process optimization:- describing current business processes;- defining weak points in processes and working out decisions to eliminate them;- introduction of decisions made;- control of changes which were introduced.2. Making analytical reports on logistics issues.