Mohammad Rashedul Alam (Rashed), Chartered Mcilt Email & Phone Number

Dhaka, Bangladesh

• To maintain executive leadership over the entire procurement & supply chain team consisting of six pillars as procurement, media buying, contract management, supplier/partner management, supply chain governance &.
• Transforming procurement & supply chain team activation to value chain for ensuring to deliver maximum value to the business.
• To ensure the best practices in procurement (TCO) & supply chain’s network design, demand forecasting, inventory optimization, national wide logistics and distribution planning for above 500,000 touch points, strategic.
• To lead the procurement contract management for both technology and media/marketing category for maximizing of operational and financial performance and to minimization procurement risk.
• To research, secure, manage & strengthen relationships (SRM) with global suppliers, segments technology & media buying such as ORACLE, HP, DELL EMC, IBM, Huawei, Microsoft, AWS, VMware, CISCO, THALS, Checkpoint.
• Be a key member of the executive team in driving the business forward by leading a best practice supply chain that supports and promotes global growth and expansion.

Writing articles on Supply Chain, Economy, Technology and other Business Functions on the The Daily Star & The Daily Star is the largest circulating daily English-language newspaper in Bangladesh and it emerged as a leading and influential national newspaper of record. Author profile:https://www.thedailystar.net/author/mohammad-rashedul-alam

Writing articles on Supply Chain, Economy, Technology and other Business Functions on The Dhaka Tribune and DTB is a major Bangladeshi English-language daily newspaper based in Dhaka, the country's capital and largest.

As Supply Chain & Procurement experts engaged with Global Supply Chain Business Cases Competition forum as Judge along with National Level Roundtable discussion forum and working as University Guest Lectures

• Was responsible for cost effective local and foreign all types of trading (device, sim, scratch card & POSM items) & service procurement (mainly foreign consultancy and expert services).
• Defined negotiation strategies & price benchmarking exercises for win-win outcomes mainly for strategic procurement items/services.
• Prepared partnership development road map (mainly for strategic categories) and executed as per management guidelines & maintained relationship with relevant external stakeholders such as Bank, BTRC, Custom, Freight.
• Was responsible for end-to-end local & foreign logistics of CAPEX & OPEX items from origin to destination. (yearly tentative import value was nearly USD 400 million).
• Followed up and to analyze 3PL KPI parameter and revision of KPI as per business needs & requirement in line with company process, policy & investment.
• Responsible for cost efficient warehouse & logistics operation in terms of best utilization of space management, cost effective logistics operation across country (no of warehouses-5 and total space-approx. 1.76.

• Coordinated demand fulfillment & logistics activities with Sales, Finance, Product Marketing, Retail & Care department to achieve organizational short term, quarterly & midterm targets.
• Coordinated with global & regional logistics planning team & regional factories for ensuring confirmed supply shipment of ramp up (RU) & ramp down (RD) model.
• Followed up & prepared weekly ERP based inventory report for DoS (Days of Stocks) calculation, supply gap, and in transit stocks.
• Ensured issuing of weekly letter of credit (LC) & amendments if require as per Nokia’s template & released of payments for weekly handsets, spares, and accessories shipment.
• Organized monthly meeting with LSP (logistics service provider such as DHL, FedEx) for SWAP inventory and followed up their development and solving of any critical issues if any.
• Worked as SAP based demand fulfillment power user and conducted quarterly visit of all Emerging Asia distributors to scale up service level.

• Defined procurement strategy (procure to pay) for strategic items and media buying and lead the negotiation works.
• Took initiatives for supplier partnership development for win-win business benefits and closely worked with group procurement team and implemented group initiatives accordingly.
• Supervised & looked after order booking of trading items such as mobile handset (foreign & local purchase), sim card, scratch card etc in the EPR software (SAP).
• Looked after bid price schedule, review & revise terms and conditions of RFQ/RFT in context of PR before issuance & to prepare tender pricing & financial comparison statement in SAP & presented workings to the.
• Guided/supervised executives to prepare bid price summary, approval note & issuance of PO in SAP.
• Conducted periodic supplier evaluation in regards services, price, delivery and quality and accordingly prepared supplier scoreboard and performance rankings.

• Coordinated logistics activities mainly with the overseas supplier and freight forwarder for ensuring on time shipment and delivery of products as per SLA. (Account- Grameen Phone Ltd, a subsidiary of Telenor Group and.
• Was responsible for receiving, reviewing & evaluating customer’s (Grameen Phone) letter of credit (LC).
• Closely worked with regional office directives to float RFP for selection of right freight forwarding/shipping agency.
• Was responsible for hardware (HW) & spares support services operation for country unit and provided assistance to customer project management in terms of logistics and procurement related tasks in the tender process.
• Followed up with Ericsson regional and global and local PSI & shipping agency to ensure on time delivery of capital machineries & services at customer end.

• Was fully responsible for all technical & general purchase order booking in ERP software (SAP) & sourcing potential vendors, distribution of equipment in various sites & all logistical aspects as support services for.
• Closely worked with regional offices directives to float RFP for selection of freight forwarder & coordinated with local and overseas shipping agent regarding just in time delivery of goods and also with customers and.
• Prepared shipping documents such as pro-forma invoice, commercial invoice etc. and looked after all pre shipment inspection (PSI) matters coordinating with Motorola overseas and PSI offices.
• Coordinated with Motorola overseas and local team regarding calculation of shipment lead-time as well as on time delivery of goods.
• Was fully responsible for distribution of equipment from one place to another within the country and warehouse inventory management.

• Functioned as a commercial administration power user trainer during the deployment of ERP procurement, commercial & logistics module in CEMEX Thailand (JD EDWARDS). Rest team members was from CEMEX Mexico, Spain &.
• Prepared ERP module deployment project road map & drafted training materials.
• Successfully handed over ERP procurement, commercial & logistics module ownership to Thailand logistics power user team.

• Prepared raw material and capital machineries import procedures (LC) and coordinated with PSI, local & international shipping as well as C&F agents to arrange on time imports since the beginning of CEMEX operation in.
• Prepared entire logistics process creating procurement and hauler master profile file, material received receipt (MRR), total dispatch process of finished goods in an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software that is.
• Negotiated with local procurement supplier and hauling agent regarding on time supplies of materials and distribution of finished goods.
• Was in charge of freight management and periodic reconciliation conducted with sales, plant and accounts departments regarding sales, dispatches, receivable of raw materials and freight payable.
• Was power user of the AS/400 based ERP (Entrepreneur Resource Planning) software and in charge of the Commercial module.

Mcilt (Membership No E6811), Qualified As Chartered Member

• Became a Member of Chartered Institution of Logistics & Transport (MCILT and Membership No-E6811). CILT is the world’s oldest forum for.

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