Ahmed Zahran

- Lead AWS Infrastructure supply chain strategy for high-value component categories, including management of billions spend on High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) and DRAM Components. - Develop and implement strategic supply chain planning utilizing analytics, planning and what-if scenarios, through optimized production scheduling and supplier collaboration that reduced current on-hand inventory by 29.9%. - Manage New Product Introduction (NPI) for DRAM and other assigned components, develop and maintain longevity road maps, and assess Excess and Obsolescence (E&O) material risk along with supply risks due to End of Life (EOL) products. - Implement inventory health monitoring systems that track weeks of supply, aging inventory, and order confirmation rates, driving appropriate corrective actions. - Lead scenario planning exercises that evaluate multiple supply strategies, providing data-driven recommendations to senior leadership. - Drive continuous improvement in supplier relationships, cost optimization, and risk mitigation for critical component categories. - Leverage data-driven insights to optimize inventory levels, lead times, and overall supply chain performance for key infrastructure components.

- Managed a team of 10 Supply Chain Specialists in a hybrid work environment that collectively have a purchase power of $100+ million USD where performance management and coaching, individual professional development, compensation review and conversations, hiring new specialists, and handling termination cases when necessary is conducted. - Oversaw noninventory operations and shipping supplies in Amazon warehouses for 42 Amazon fulfillment centers of different types with direct impact on operational processing via continuity of supply of noninventory goods and services. - Led cross-functional teams to identify and implement $6.08M in annual supply chain efficiency improvements. - Design and secure the flow of more than 100 different consumable items from the suppliers’ premises to the Amazon locations; provide immediate troubleshooting in support of escalations from site operations teams. - Created and maintained what-if scenario models to support strategic decision-making during supply disruptions and demand fluctuations. - Manage supplier and internal key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure, control and benchmark indirect supply chain processes including creation of recurring metrics reports.

- Responsible for the region’s shipping supplies operation in three different countries managing the local team of buyers in each country to ensure standardization of process, no shortage of items and lowering cost per shipment for each country. - Responsible for the demand planning of the shipping supplies across all MENA region sites. - Responsible for all shipping supplies on-going projects across the MENA region. - Ensuring standardization of communication of all buyers with their corresponding suppliers. - Standardize all the files, reports and processes for shipping suppliers across the MENA region. - Created the Standard Operation Procedure for all Shipping Supplies Buyers across the MENA region and works towards its improvement. - Sourcing for different new suppliers, doing regular site visits for current and potential suppliers, evaluating their performance and building a library of the manufacturing process of each item that falls under the category.

- Responsible for the shipping supplies category & Packaging Materials in Egypt, Handling all the shipping supplies of different Amazon Categories and sites across the country. - Avoiding any shortage of shipping supplies materials in all sites with suitable planning according to the forecast. - Source for new vendors for different categories of the materials. - Issuing all the quarterly needed Purchase Orders in time after negotiating with all the suppliers and doing e-auctions online. - Ensure Invoices are matching with Purchase orders and are paid in timely manner, Follow up with the finance department that there are no pending payments, Run weekly open items reports: due dates, missing goods receipts, received but not invoiced, invoice receipts and late payments

- Assisting the manager in warehouse and stock management and following up with safety stock, lead-time and demand calculations to avoid shortness in equipment or materials. - Following up materials or equipment to arrival point of destination, timely while ensuring vendors perform relevant contractual obligations. - Follow up and expedite the delivery of purchased items in order to meet delivery schedules with track sheets. - Review and analyse purchase requisitions, writes and distributes complex and technical bid invitations, requests for quotations, requests for proposals and purchase orders and investigates and develops sources of supplies through the ERP system. - Making effective recommendations for purchase and placing purchase orders for the supply of materials and engineered packages. - Ensure Invoices are matching with Purchase order and are paid in timely manner, Follow up with the finance department that there are no pending payments, Run weekly open items reports: due dates, missing goods receipts and invoice receipts, late payments. - Responsible for the contract management processes including long and short term contracts, Make sure contracts are renewed before expiry by making competitive biddings, Running weekly open items reports: due dates, missing goods receipts and invoice receipts, late payments.