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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bachelor’S Degree

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

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