Michael Sonu Email & Phone Number

United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dubai

• Achievements:
• Played a key role while developing the company’s in-house forecasting tool based on Holt Winter’s method and reduced the industry forecast errors to 5% since launching the tool.
• Helped reduce aged inventory by 8 % over 3 years in the network by delivering early warnings.
• Developed a user-friendly dashboard tableau for industry data where stake-holders could view and analyze the trend and growth of each segment, manufacturer and carline by MoM or YoY parameters.
• Established an in-house Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) tool to perform KSA Café credit and What if analysis.Key Responsibilities:
• Assuming responsibility for the short term forecasting of the automotive industry in the Middle East and managing the MEO Sales Forecast in addition to the CAFÉ analytics and provide recommendations to improve MEO.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Achievements:
• Successfully implemented SSOR tool used to track sales, inventory, production plan and day supply across the field team, dealers and manufacturing units.
• Developed Vehicle Locator Tool to track the inventory by option/model across the region to avoid the purchase of costly third party software.
• Created a tool to track orders from the time orders were placement till delivery which enabled clear visibility on the parameters of units' movement and helped to analyze lead time.Key Responsibilities:
• Performed production and sales forecasting functions to ensure availability of vehicles at the right time across all locations with open requests.
• Monitored forecasts and quotas to identify changes and to determine their effect on demand planning activities, performed contingency planning and factored for reserves.

• Achievements:
• As a subject matter expert defined business requirements, confirmed system design and rolled out the implementation plan.
• Increased Annual Inventory turnover at 19 dealerships in 10 countries through a more focused and analytical approach to the slow-moving and obsolete product.Key Responsibilities:
• Led and optimized front-end reporting/mix analysis and the creation of dashboards for the top management, so as to enable them to take strategic decisions based on data available.
• Coordinated with Sales Managers for product allocation and ensured that all forecasts were being streamlined and met.
• Analyzed and improved forecast accuracy, effectively determined sources of error and implemented appropriate improvement plans.

• Key Responsibilities:
• Handled Supply Chain Management services which included order management, timely release of vehicles for production and delivery to Dealers.
• Supported the development and implementation of New Dealer Order Management System (Order Work Bench) and assisted in the data migration from the old system (Merlin).
• Resolved all ordering and distribution issues by investigating with Vehicle Specification Managers in the Head office, interacted with the various plants around the globe with regards to scheduling and order change.
• Developed excellent dealer relationships, secured their commitment, tracked consensus vs. orders placed and ensured highest scores on dealer satisfaction indices.
• Checked and ensured that orders are not held in production process or in exit port thereby achieving a reduction in order-to-delivery timing.

• Achievements:
• Successfully managed the movement of spare parts from various platforms to General Motors Middle East Distribution Centre.
• Assumed responsibility on Material Masters of 150,000 part numbers.
• Played the role of a Subject Matter Expert on SAP Material Master module.
• Was the key person in charge for all matters pertaining to the material database.Key Responsibilities:
• Monitored the position and movement of inventory across different plants and storage locations to meet the inventory turnover ratio on time and ensured that all supply chain bottlenecks were eliminated.

Mumbai Area, India

• Key Responsibilities:
• Was part of the CMRP (Central Material Requirement and Planning) Team and was actively involved in implementing the same for Home and Personal Care Business.
• Worked on MFG Pro Application, with specific responsibility on Master Data for the Home & Personal Care Products.
• Responsible for performance of the entire supply chain from the Vendor to the warehouse of 12 own factories and 25 2P factories.
• Managed the entire supplier's network, in terms of adherence to the schedule commitments & in terms of IT reporting of the same especially on the online system Supplier Net.
• Coordinated with the logistics companies in updating Supplier Net.