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 & logistics, warehouse management.• 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 supply chain planning, both media and digital marketing buying planning. • 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 systems, Palo Alto Networks etc. for technology category and Google, Facebook, IMO, LinkedIn etc. & major local platforms for win-win pricing & service benefit and to meet up on time growing needs.• 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.• To oversee the organization's logistics, inventory, warehousing & distribution and transportation functions. • To develop and implements operational systems to monitor and control critical supply chain processes, compliances and value driven projects.• Yearly managing spends above USD 300.00 million (tech segments above 60%) and directly supervise five function’s lead and total team member base is twenty-nine (29).

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 city.https://archive.dhakatribune.com/business/2021/01/31/how-bangladesh-can-ensure-a-successful-covid-19-inoculation-programmehttps://epaper.dhakatribune.com/?date=2022-08-17&edition=2&page=8

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 Forwarder, CCI&E, NBR, Customs Intelligent and C&F agents to ensure efficient and timely customs release for imported materials. • 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 million cubic feet).• Established and enforced best in class SAP ERP (Procurement, WMM & MM Module) and continuous reviewed for further improvement and upgraded in line with different WMS.• Was responsible for overall demand supply forecasting of all trading materials such as (sim, scratch card, starter kit, handsets, point of sales material and sales supporting items) and to ensure JIT delivery keeping the lowest level of inventory & yearly turnover was nearly USD 700 million.• Conducted half yearly team members (total 45 team members) skills gap analysis and on yearly basis developed need-based training schedule for al team members.

• 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.• Prepared Emerging Asia level weekly market score card report for southeast asia pacific (SEAP) management that reflected monthly & quarterly sales volume & revenue trend analysis, country wise channel inventory, primary & secondary sales comparison, days of stock (DOS) analysis, mix & volume accuracy report.

• 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 evaluation committee that was chaired by CEO/CFO & all divisional heads.• 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 countries the largest telecommunications service provider, subscription base 83.02 million)• 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 project management. • 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 beneficiary bank for smooth transaction of all accounts receivable.• 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 & Philippines. • 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 Bangladesh.• 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 known as AS/400 JD EDWARS.• 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.

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