Akram Ahamed

•Accountable for guaranteeing sales through Demand, Supply, Logistics, and warehouse management in a fulfillment role, while ensuring that sales figures align with the quarterly and annual plans regarding demand versus supply. •Manage the aggregation of the demand plan process across product categories, producing a rolling forecast of12-18 month estimate of unconstrained future demand in various SKU & group level. •Initiating regular S&OP meeting & validation, correction of the monthly demand & rectifying it. •Managing the forecast in IBP, APO & approaching risk-buy via KOOLOG for critical products & determining the forecast accuracy, understanding the project visibility. •Monitoring statistical forecasted items in SAP IBP & APO on regular basis and amending the enrichments to balance the flow of stock vs supply. •Responsible for the forecast alignment and validating the demand in the system based on demand trend, sales requirement etc on various products portfolio. •Responsible to drive the suppliers on the required direction for following up on supply in terms of PULL IN, PUSH OUT & Cancellations per SKU as required. •Provide updates and status information on the progress of work to stakeholders and respond promptly to escalations when required. •Collaborate with other departments to identify problems and find solutions relating to Supply Chain, Procurement and purchasing outcomes. •Plan and monitor workflow and workload to team, evaluating and reassigning work as needed. •Driving the 3PL activities for critical projects & ensuring the delivery on committed timelines to ensure monthly sales target. •Ensure monthly & quarterly Inventory targets & plan supply accordingly based on the demand. •Managed sales inquiries concerning order placement, confirmation, delivery, promotions, and product information.

• Analyze all suppliers in order to select the most suitable suppliers who are able to deliver high-quality products at competitive pricing. • Handling a small team of buyers & logistics and reporting to Director Supply Chain • Negotiate with suppliers on lead-time, cost, and quality so as to obtain the maximum benefit for the company. • Manage suppliers to meet objectives related to cost, delivery performance, schedule and quality. • Develop purchasing or sourcing strategies based on portfolio analyses and supplier preferencing study. • Define and maintain documented category and supplier strategies using market and competitive data. • Liaise with suppliers on delivery schedule so as to ensure on-time deliveries of the final product. • Develop, implement and drive the procurement strategies in order to meet cost savings targets. • Review and manage the supplier base to ensure consistency with the sourcing strategy. • Perform regular performance review with suppliers to drive continuous improvements. • Create monthly performance reviews and reports focusing on overall sourcing requirements. • Ensure commercial, legal and contractual compliances in all the procurement transactions. • Adopt appropriate supplier management methodologies and procurement strategies in purchasing to secure better prices. • Train team on effective procurement processes and strategy. • Coordinate with the vendor on continuous quality improvement. * Check the L.T for Items based on stocks, possible alternates & float enquires to align the supply for PENALTY & Government project orders. * Ensure monthly & quarterly Inventory targets & plan supply accordingly based on the demand. * Maintain Inventory as per demand & try to sell the slow moving & obsolete items to other global markets wherever required. * Coordinate with requestors from different departments regarding specifications for ordering purposes.

Responsibilities: • Receives & handle purchase requisition allocated by purchasing manager. Checks verifies purchase requisition in terms of procurement strategy, completeness of description/specifications, approved engineering standards source of supply, feasibility of requirement including delivery date, estimated cost etc, highlight problems/discrepancy to originators for necessary arrangements. • Prepare comprehensive Request for Quotation (RFQ) documents with complete specification, terms and condition etc and issues such documents to invited bidders for quotations. • Attends pre-tender clarifications meetings, arranges travel of bidder’s to site, answer queries and ensure issuance of revised drawings, specifications etc as applicable • Participate in the company bids opening meetings and ensure accurate bid details are entered in SAP. • Evaluates offer commercially, prepares bid summary/commercial appraisal & conducts necessary verifications, negotiations with suppliers as applicable. • Prepares accurate/comprehensive purchase orders/agreements, obtain approval as per delegated financial authority levels. Projecting stock levels. Monitoring delivery times to ensure they are on time. • Ensure purchase orders are delivered/acknowledge/accepted by successful bidders. Prepare inspection request as required. Checking confirmation of order, delivery note and invoice control. • Coordinating and following up of schedules, deadlines and delivery dates. • Vendor Development / sourcing & vendor Evaluation & up gradation. Developing new suppliers and to evaluate existing suppliers. • Identifying cost competitive sources for required materials with essential quality standards. Sourcing the most affordable materials for the company’s process. • Support other related duties such as interviewing prospective bidders, initiates pre-qualification action and explores or recommend new source of supply, respond to related queries and clarification

• Evaluation of purchase requisition generated by planner in SAP on actual requirement • Advise on project purchasing strategies and procedures. • Assist the end user to identify suitable vendors/plan to achieve the objective of end user functional needed • Source and recommend suppliers who are capable of providing technical solutions and equipment required. Initiate quotations for technical packages both locally and overseas. Undertake the negotiation of purchase contracts, follow-up, schedule ensure quality standards are met and expedite deliveries. • Co-operate with production, research, engineering and other departments in modifications to equipment, product specifications and delivery dates. • Review and process claims against suppliers for unsatisfactory materials or equipment. • Investigate trends in materials and supply prices, recommend the timing and quantity of purchases and establish economical purchase quantities. • Educate subordinates in the actions required of a professional supply chain, operating within the oil and gas industry. • Attend production planning meetings and liaise with Production personnel in the forward ordering of supplies where lead time is critical. • Prepare detailed financial analyses in support of alternative purchasing strategies. • Use of internet for finding and developing new suppliers. • Develop & train Saudi National employee’s from all technical & commercial explanation in simple manner

Responsibilities: • Processing of purchase requisition as per the Material requirement planning generated by ERP Oracle as per the demand feed by the sales team on approval with programs • Sending RFI for suppliers on clarifications for new buy item’s • Getting approval of vendors from customer and requesting for quotation upon approval from client to proceed further and maintain the quote in system • Issuance of purchase order as per the demand requirement to the supplier based upon the lead time • Downloading shortage report from ERP and rescheduling the items as per the need basis such as rescheduling items in /out as per current delivery date and requesting for cancellations if no demand • Monitoring and updating engineering changes of items and maintain of cut-off date as per the stock availability and clients approval on ECN implementation • Monitoring Demand forecast with planning team and maintain the inventory as per the system signal • Maintaining weekly reports & monthly report of the items • Monitoring the shipments and updating the status in weekly meeting. • Following the payment to the supplier to be paid on time without delay and ensuring continuous deliveries • Ensuring timely delivery of material and components