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General Manager Supply Chain
MAJID ALFUTAIM
Total years of experience :26 years, 7 Months
Responsibilities
• Strategic Planning, developing a Supply chain strategy that is aligned with the overall corporate strategy and ensure its proper implementation
• Import-Export, seting-up the trade compliance process and ensure its required adaptation with changes in customs & local authorities regulations
• Replenishment management, ensuring the proper goods flows management (via DC or direct) and the corresponding flow in DC (picking, breakdown, cross-docking).
• Logistics operations warehouse and transportation.
• Policies and procedures, improving the supply chain procedures by reducing costs, increasing productivity, faster processes.
• Human capital responsibilities
Responsibilities
• Building the Suppliers Network, and suppliers negotiations.
• Foundation for the warehousing & logistics (3PL).
• Building the S&OP cycle.
• Budget Management.
• P&L Management.
Key Achievements
• Launching successfully, 6 SKUs (Plant based dairy alternatives), in the Egyptian market.
• Successful Co-Man, 3PL agreements.
Responsible for product supply planning for Middle East and Africa, 3 Plants in Egypt, South Africa and Pakistan, Serving 12 Markets in the region.
Responsibilities
• Member of MEA regional CS&L management team.
• Responsible for FG supply planning for the following markets, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Gulf & NM, Levant, South Africa & Pakistan, business size 500 MUSD annually.
• Responsible for Material Planning portfolio for the 3 Plants in the Region (Egypt, South Africa & Pakistan).
• Responsible for maintaining IMS targets, shipment targets, and maintains healthy stock levels for the above mentioned markets.
• Owner of CTS (Compliance to Schedule) for the main supplying plants (MEA Region - Egypt, South Africa & Pakistan plants).
• Owner of MEA region DIOH (Days of Inventory on Hand).
• Owner of MEA region CFR (Case fill rate).
• Total direct reports 4 Senior Managers.
• Capacity Planning (Short/Long term) & communicating/escalating short falls.
Key Achievements
• Increasing South Africa CFR from 79% to 84% Y1& 92% Y2.
• Standardization for the planning process across the 3 Sites.
• Participated in managing successfully Qatar boycot, meeting the annual shipment target despite having an efect on couple of shortfalls during the first 2 months of the boycot execution.
Responsibilities
• Member of the factory management team.
• Looking after 3 Factories in 2 diferent premises, serving 4 Business units in the Region, (Egypt, GCC, Levant and CEA).
• Total direct reports 3 - indirect reports 18 - (15 blue collars).
• Responsible for production planning, material planning & site logistics (3PL & In-house warehousing).
• Capacity Planning (Short/Long term) & communicating/escalating short falls.
• Budget - MRP Portfolio 120 MUSD - Logistics 300K USD annually.
Key Achievements
• Converting Safety stocks from a rule of thumb to a mathematical based formula, by which we decreased our safety stock value by 15% annually.
• Decreasing Transportation budget by 24%, through Gemba walks.
• Enhancing/standardizing 3 Factories reporting - to have a proper flow of information to the IBP meetings (Supply planning review - SPR).
• Decreasing DBNR (Days between next run) from 17 Days to 12 days, by studying the efect of changeovers on GE%.
• Moving the total warehouse stock to PIL (10th of Ramadan), Ambient, Temp Controlled & Chilled, 10% Budget decrease annual.
Supply Planning
•Focus on key driving factors that influence supply chain performance metrics.
•Make production decisions based on target inventory levels, order fill rates and demand variables.
•Identify and resolve supply issues.
•Work closely with the depot to ensure target order fill rates are being met for daily customer orders.
•Monitor Production receipts and transfers ensuring timely delivery and availability of product as well as in accordance with our inventory plan.
•Manage new products introductions from production through receipt. Responsible to ensure product arrives to meet customer dates and specifications.
•Ensure proper capacity planning to avail production lines for the expected projects, planned maintenance.
•Agreeing Constrained Supply Plan.
•Optimizes production and inventory to deliver the demand plan
•Raises future capacity and stock issues
•Determines continuous improvement plans and raises for discussion in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) meeting
Production Planning & Scheduling
•Creates rough cut capacity plan (RCCP)
•Understands and influences the planning parameters (In-House and External) and assumptions e.g. changeovers, stock-building, warehouse Constraints etc
•Develops and implements the run strategy
•Creates cost contingency plans and scenarios, supported by the Finance team
•Communicates the Master Production Schedule and consequences to the business
•Optimizes and communicates the line schedule taking into account sequencing
•Creates feasible production schedules, considers constraints, e.g. line capacity, labour, batch sizes, run rates, bottlenecks, planned downtime.
•Executes agreed manufacturing run strategy
•Manages and communicates exceptions.
Responsibilities
• Member of the factory management team.
• Total direct reports 3.
• Responsible for Supply Planning, Stocks in markets & Production Planning for 3 categories, Ambient, Chilled & Juice products.
• Supply Planning Review Owner in the S&OP Meeting.
Key Achievements
• Gaining the experience of managing the complexity of dairy products, 6-month shelf life for the ambient & 15 days for the chilled products.
• Availing FG products worth 1.2 BEGP - 120 MUSD in 2015.
• Availing FG Chilled products worth 50 MEGP during Ramadan (Company record by that time).
Production-planning supervision, scheduling for production, preparing production schedules for manufacturing.
Making sure each operation meets shipping dates according to sales forecasts or customer orders.
Analyzing production specifications and plant capacity data and performs mathematical calculations to determine manufacturing processes & utilization of production lines.
Determining the status of assigned projects or new SKUs, expedites operations that delay schedules/launching and alters schedules to meet unforeseen conditions.
Preparing production reports.
Monitor, analyze & report performance to schedule of production & production support activities.
Ensures all parties are fully cognizant of production status, & that work planning and execution objectives are integrated & communicated.
Analyze requests for maintenance/repair services & determines the validity, content & scope of requested work.
Responsibilities
• 3 Production lines, short- & long-term planning.
• Accountable for Customer service KPIs.
• Direct FMT investment decisions, through diferent capacity scenarios
• Capacity short- & long-term planning.
• Maintain OP by analyzing markets growth and investigate volume uplifts or depresses & report them.
• Work closely with Supply planners & Demand planners through the S&OP cycle to achieve targeted net sales plan.
• Functional expert for process documentation.
Key Achievements
• Swinging products between Egypt, UAE & Saudi sites to avail capacity for Indias NPD.
• Operating Molding line at 95% utilization, throughout Q32013 -2014.
• Factory Supply chain process documentation.
• Factory Supply chain Scorecard.
• Automatic templates to calculate DFGO, which facilitated decision making for building stocks & Pre-production decisions.
• Participating in converting GCC from push market to pull market.
Looking after 2 factories, chocolate and biscuits.
1. Production Planning
2. Raw Materials
3. Warehouse & site logistics
4. Member of the Factory leadership team
Managing (ownership) of the packaging area in the factory, Full responsibility of achieving the area KPIs, Safety & Quality aspects.
Responsibility of building a high performance team, and full responsibility of my teams functional & technical developement.
Functional expert in production team to deal with the production planning as i am the owner of the packaging area, in terms of achieving the production plan, work closely with the supply team to plan our demand to achieve the best for the production line and for the market as well.
Functional Expert for the safety, working closely with the safety team to ensure a safe environment for all the associates, and achieving all the safety KPIs.
Improve manufacturing efficiency by analyzing and planning work flow, space requirements, and equipment layout.
Assure product and process quality by designing testing methods; testing finished- product and process capabilities; establishing standards; confirming manufacturing processes.
Provide manufacturing decision-making information by calculating production, labor, and material costs; reviewing production schedules; estimating future requirements.
Prepares product and process reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends. .
Provides manufacturing engineering information by answering questions and requests.
Maintains product and company reputation by complying with government regulations.
Keep equipment operational by coordinating maintenance and repair services; following manufacturers instructions and established procedures; requesting special service.
Complete design and development projects by training and guiding technicians.
Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
Responsible for handling budget and expenditure of manufacturing contractors.
Accessing new processes
Testing new equipments & participate in Installing.
Doing quality checks
Responsible for the Factory Systems & Production Data. (Functional Expert)
Responsibilities
• 2 Flutes lines packaging area.
• Direct Reports 12 (Blue Collars).
• Packaging team technical & personal development.
• Testing new equipments & installation.
• Production plan achievement.
• Contractors Company (Daily workers).
• Manufacturing operating systems (FMOS & PPM).
Key Achievements
• Participating in Flutes II, Line Installation.
• Successful installation for Flutes I expansion project (30% capacity Increase)
• Launching FMOS (Factory Mars Operating System) across 3 lines.
• FMOS OCT won 3 global best practices.
Founder for a small sized business, Liquid detergents factory.
Producing 2 main products for Households
1. Bravo (Dish Washing detergent)
2. Max (Glass Cleaner)
Responsibilities
• Business Founder for a small sized company.
Key Achievements
• Launched 2 household products (Dish washing Liquid & Glass Cleaner)
• Chosen as a public speaker by E.B.F. Entrepreneurs Business Forum, speak to university students to direct/encourage them to start their own business.
• Chosen by E.B.F. to give a speech in-front of Minster Ahmed Darwish, to speak about the small business obstacles in Egypt.
Improve manufacturing efficiency by analyzing and planning work flow, space requirements, and equipment layout.
Assure product and process quality by designing testing methods; testing finished- product and process capabilities; establishing standards; confirming manufacturing processes.
Provide manufacturing decision-making information by calculating production, labor, and material costs; reviewing production schedules; estimating future requirements.
Prepares product and process reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends. .
Provides manufacturing engineering information by answering questions and requests.
Maintains product and company reputation by complying with government regulations.
Keep equipment operational by coordinating maintenance and repair services; following manufacturers instructions and established procedures; requesting special service.
Complete design and development projects by training and guiding technicians.
Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
Handling budget and expenditure
Accessing new processes
Installing new equipment
Doing quality checks
Responsibilities
• Responsible for Palmolive hand soap production line.
• Responsible for liquid detergents production line.
• Responsible for Quality & Safety.
• Deliver the target eficiencies for the lines.
