Farah Irfan
Planning and Procurement (Supply chain Professional)
Karachi
Summary
Accomplished Production, Procurement, and Distribution Planning Manager with over 14 years of experience in exports and retail business. Expertise in material forecasting, upstream, production, tolling, and distribution planning. Proven track record of optimizing supply chain operations to drive efficiency and cost savings. Passionate about delivering high-quality results and exceeding organizational goals.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
2016
2016
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Language
Work History
Planning, Tolling & Transformation Manager
SYNGENTA
04.2024 - Current
- Looking after Plant & Tollers Planning Portfolio of PKR 30M along with Transformation function which includes below responsibilities:
- Ensuring Plant and Tollers full capacity utilization along with alignment of monthly sales plan
- Ensuring the Budgeted and Actual Volumes and cost are within tolerance limit hence ensuring the overall profitability of Pakistan region
- Connectivity of Tollers on SAP by ensuring their actual production depicts on system too.
- Responsible for all Digitalization in relation to process connectivity with Finished product.
- Ensuring Health and Safety protocols are implemented at Tollers premises in alignment with Company’s vision
Planning Manager
ALKARAM STUDIO
10.2021 - 03.2024
- Looking after Central Planning function worth of 6 Billion Sales which includes Upstream, PPC and Down stream planning which includes below responsibilities:
- Leading Upstream Planning function for both Unstitched and RTW collections starting from Designs follow up, fabrications planning to Finished Fabric receipt in warehouse
- Leading Plant Production planning of RTW articles based on their SAM, lines skill and material availability.
- Leading Distribution & Replenishment Planning of 52 stores across the country ensuring on time availability of goods at outlets based on their sell throughs and display capacities.
Deputy Manager Material Planning & Procurement
MIDAS CLOTHING LTD
01.2020 - 09.2021
- Worked as Deputy Manager – in Supply chain procurement and planning where I managed a team, of 6 people who were handling around $3million purchases and planning of accessories and general purchase.
- My main responsibilities were listed below:
- To ensure 100 % ROF & POF of all orders ensuring zero bottle necks.
- To ensure plant feeding without any stoppage.
- Supplier management through SPMS grading system
- To ensure timely developments of all accessories for business developments
- To review the material ageing as per defined criteria.
- To ensure SAP master data timely cleansing of POs, Vendor data and timely closures
- Monitoring of Procure to pay cycle.
Deputy Manager Production Planning
MIDAS CLOTHING LTD
01.2019 - 12.2019
- Worked as Deputy Manager – in Planning Department where my main job was to manage production planning of 2 main key customers worth of around $1.3 million and planning of plant generating around of $0.5 million.
- My main responsibilities are listed below:
- To generate the master production schedule and target sheets of assigned plant
- To ensure 100 % OTIF of customer while ensuring minimum Air freights.
- To ensure plant feeding without any stoppage.
- To commit Ex-factories for assigned customer within agreed lead times.
- To ensure agreed lead times for all orders.
- To align material with plan in way to keep minimum OWC.
- To review the material ageing as per defined criteria
- To plan & ensure the consumption of the materials as per defined ageing criteria.
- Coordination with Cutting, Stores & Supply chain for smooth execution of the order.
- Developing mitigation policy for Line continuation
- Successful closures of orders on SAP
Assistant Manager Production Planning
MIDAS CLOTHING LTD
06.2018 - 12.2018
- Worked as Assistant Manager – in Planning Department where my main job is to manage production planning of 1 main key customers worth of around $1 million and planning of plant generating around of $0.5 million.
- My main responsibilities are listed below:
- To generate the master production schedule and target sheets of assigned plant
- To ensure 100 % OTIF of customer while ensuring minimum Air freights.
- To ensure plant feeding without any stoppage.
- To commit Ex-factories for assigned customer within agreed lead times.
- To ensure agreed lead times for all orders.
- To align material with plan in way to keep minimum OWC.
- To review the material ageing as per defined criteria.
- To plan & ensure the consumption of the materials as per defined ageing criteria.
- Coordination with Cutting, Stores & Supply chain for smooth execution of the order.
- Developing mitigation policy for Line continuation
Assistant Manager MRP
MIDAS CLOTHING LTD
06.2016 - 06.2018
- Worked as Assistant Manager – Material Resource Planner (Lead MRP) in Supply chain Department where my main job is to manage material planning of around $12M in all manufacturing facilities in Pakistan.
- My main responsibilities are listed below:
- To generate the procurement plan as per requirements.
- To ensure the POF (Perfect order fulfillment).
- To ensure the ROF (Reliable order Fulfillment) & OTD.
- To classify the inventory types in system.
- Evaluate existing inventory control procedures and correct them as required.
- To review the material ageing as per defined criteria.
- To plan & ensure the consumption of the materials as per defined ageing criteria.
- Coordination with Marketing, Procurement, Stores & Planning teams for smooth execution of the order.
- To coordinate with procurement team for all inquiries of Marketing.
- Developing mitigation policy for Line continuation.
- Monitoring inventory and slow moving stocks.
Assistant Manager Fabric Procurement
MIDAS CLOTHING LTD
01.2014 - 05.2016
- Working as Assistant Manager – Procurement where my main job was to manage procurement of around $11-12M (2000 SKUs) from inquiry placement to goods in-house & payment/invoice parking on SAP.
- My main responsibilities are listed below:
- Managing procurement of around 200 above suppliers.
- Price negotiation.
- Imports planning.
- Arranging purchase related documents.
- Follow up of imported Fabric orders.
- Arranging Payments.
- Monitoring OTD of suppliers.
- Developing alternate supplier to avoid monopoly of a single supplier and to have cost outs.
- Vendor managed inventory.
- Payment term revisions to have balance of money flow.
Assistant Material Management
MIDAS CLOTHING LTD
02.2012 - 12.2013
- Working as a Material Management assistant - where my main job was to manage all end to end supply chain of a Customer worth of $1.6M.
- My main responsibilities were listed below:
- Handling all development related inquiries of customer.
- Fabric & trims requirement working.
- Inventory management of account.
- Forecast working of both trims & fabric.
- Procurement of fabric & trims.
- Imports planning.
- Payment tracking.
Education
MBA - Supply chain Management
INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Bachelors of Engineering - Textile Engineering
NED UNIVERSITY OF ENGG. & TECHNOLOGY
H.S.C - PRE-ENGINEERING
PECHS GOVT GIRLS COLLEGE
S.S.C - SCIENCE GROUP
CAA MODEL SCHOOL 2
Skills
Data analytics
Organizational development
Digital transformation
Teamwork and collaboration
Team leadership
Problem-solving abilities
Decision-making
Strategic planning
Analytical thinking
Project management
Operations management
Timeline
Planning, Tolling & Transformation Manager
SYNGENTA
04.2024 - Current
Planning Manager
ALKARAM STUDIO
10.2021 - 03.2024
Deputy Manager Material Planning & Procurement
MIDAS CLOTHING LTD
01.2020 - 09.2021
Deputy Manager Production Planning
MIDAS CLOTHING LTD
01.2019 - 12.2019
Assistant Manager Production Planning
MIDAS CLOTHING LTD
06.2018 - 12.2018
Assistant Manager MRP
MIDAS CLOTHING LTD
06.2016 - 06.2018
Assistant Manager Fabric Procurement
MIDAS CLOTHING LTD
01.2014 - 05.2016
Assistant Material Management
MIDAS CLOTHING LTD
02.2012 - 12.2013
Bachelors of Engineering - Textile Engineering
NED UNIVERSITY OF ENGG. & TECHNOLOGY
H.S.C - PRE-ENGINEERING
PECHS GOVT GIRLS COLLEGE
S.S.C - SCIENCE GROUP
CAA MODEL SCHOOL 2
MBA - Supply chain Management
INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
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