Riyas A. Email & Phone Number

United States

Greater Chicago Area

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Work with leadership team to develop and execute category strategies, onboard and manage logistic suppliers, and achieve individual and team goals. • In charge of updating all databases to ensure that the information from 20K vendors are sustained.• Supervised and worked alongside 700 buyers, forecast analyst, warehouse managers, logistic personnel to ensure goals are met and customers get their orders on time.• Communicate directly with the IT Department on multiple CI projects to sustain a fluid and user-friendly task force.• Monitored and tested a new and updated rates in Logistic freight rate management tools.• Served as the communication liaison between carriers and various company departments on logistic developments.• Project lead in analyzing freight audit reports. Provided analysis and recommendations to the management team.

Rosemont

• Train and supervised a department of 80 + team members • Analyze inventory discrepancies and identify possible reasons for discrepancies – provide management with recommendations to improve processes. • Identify opportunities to optimize revenue growth and profitability through pricing strategies. • Collaborated with senior management in creating and enforcing new processes.• Proficiently developed processes to cut down on waste.• Oversee produce needs with 200 + vendors and organized pricing templates. • Ensure the field team has the most recent pricing, quoting, product ordered, and everything is aligned and integrated with established pricing models, systems and channel strategies to the leadership team.

Rosemont, Il

• Demonstrate capability to lead-by-example and inspire 10 associates while building and maintain relationship that motivate, guide, and reinforce performance toward goals and company mission. • Overseeing the day to day operations of team and compliance with all pricing programs. • Develop new insights to solutions that result in organizational improvements; promote a work environment that fosters creative thinking, innovation and rational risk-taking. • Seek, share and adopt ideas and best practices inside and outside the organization that embraces change. • Review, test and update existing costing standard to comply with changes in business requirement. • Support management initiatives to promote sustainable work life and continuous improvement. • Communicate progress and results of process improvement projects with details to leadership team.• Work with sr. team to come up with new practices and ways to improve workflow so that we are second to none. • Acted as liaison among stakeholders to understand the requirements, processes, algorithms and operations. • Revise business requirement documents when required due to design changes, labor or material shortages, backlog orders, or other interruptions while collaborating with management, sr. buyers, logistics and production team. • Compile information, such as production rates, issues and progress to team member.

Rosemont, Il

• Work on a cross functional atmosphere researching company software and files to ensure purchase agreements and contacts are accurate and up to date. • Managed and analyzed 200 vendors with over thousands of products among all the vendors. • Work with markets and region personals to fix discrepancies and ensure we are consistently receiving the best cost.• Take pride in making sure that products and costing information are uploaded into our forecasting tools correctly. • The information our team finds saves the company millions each period. • Follow accounting and company guidelines while holding vendors accountable for any issues or miscommunication. • Advise department on weekly base with any new development.

Greater Chicago Area

• Work on an agile team environment, examining documents, materials and monitoring work processes to ensure completeness accuracy, and conformance to standards and speculations. • Ensured team is complying with process. • Review multiple documents and confer with department leaders to assess progress and discuss verified issues. • Work with new team members to provide domain level expertise both on application and documents under use and work practices.

St.Charles, Il

• Lead a team of 15 in getting their workload done within required time frame. • Lead by example to show care and respect for the day to day life of the field work. • Manage documents and records to ensure they are complete, current, secure and retrievable. • Review team member timecard, workload, and daily/weekly progress. • Review existing standard applications to comply with changes in business requirement. • Overseeing the day to day operations and compliance with all safety programs. • Track record of successful management of resource and time. • Develop new insights to solutions that result in organizational improvements. • Promote a work environment that fosters creative thinking, innovation and rational risk-taking. • Communicate progress and results of process improvement projects with detailed verbal and written communication. • Value the Coca-Cola Company through words, actions, and by example.

St.Charles

• Ensure load documentation accuracy by verifying every application and maintain required records for office use. • Enter inventory data using SAP and Microsoft office tools. • Visually inspect all incoming and outgoing product information. • Train, evaluate and develop team members before workday. • Supervise the daily activities of team members. Schedule team members to meet the demands of the project. • Assist and maintain appropriate product loss control. • Oversee shipping and receiving functions as applicable. • Secure company assets. Help manager within labor and OPEX budget.

St.Charles, Il

• Travel to assigned customers to manage paperwork and merchandise Coca-Cola products. • Build displays and work with managers to inform and educated store’s layout, and how products are to be sold. • Expected to enter unknown environment dealing with various individuals from diverse backgrounds and outlooks. • As the face of Coca-Cola in the eye of the public, required to always be energized for productive day’s work with a smile and the knowledge of everything Coca-Cola. • Met and exceeded all sales and merchandising objectives.• Worked with marketing personal to develop customer specific sales and merchandising programs assigned.

Wheaton, Il

• Managed documentations by prepare, compiling, sorting and updated records before entering information on computer systems and in archives. • Verified data and corrected data where necessary. • Processed customer and account source documents by reviewing data for deficiencies; resolving discrepancies by using standard procedures or returning incomplete documents to the team leader for resolution. • Tested customer and account system changes and upgrades by inputting new data and reviewing output. • Secured information by completing data base backups always. • Maintained and complied data integrity operations by following security policies and procedures and reporting needed changes. Maintained customer confidence and protected operations by keeping information confidential. • Contributed to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

St.Charles, Il

• As a leader, had to provide guidance, instructions, direction to achieve our project goal and deadline. • Paid very close attention to detail while following up on clients and team members. • Design and executive test plans, Use Case and test scripts on computer applications. • Ability to investigate applications for defects. • Generate and maintain database of historical analysis of software test. • Perform application security audits, reviews, walkthroughs, and inspections daily. • Provide application instructions for team. • Ensure team maintain motivation for a fast-paced work ethic.• Completed and maintained an accurate record keeping system and provide detailed information to contracting company.

Bachelor’S Degree

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (A.A.S.)