Poorani Kathiravan
Demand Planning & Supply Chain Professional.
Dubai
Summary
Focused Supply Chain Professional offering 10 years of SCM expertise. Hands-on experience in Demand Planning, Forecasting and Order Processing (FMCG). Hardworking professional possessing well refined proposal, contract and service-level agreement management skills. Perform sales forecast analysis, develop business tools and processes and coordinates and implements warehouse, transportation and supply chain best practices. Collaborative and structured with excellent business ethics and in-depth understanding of legal contracts.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Demand Planning & Supply Chain Executive
Mezzan Holding (Red Bull).
Dubai
03.2018 - 09.2023
- Managing all aspects of supply chain (Demand Planning, Order Processing, Purchasing, Procurement, Warehousing, Fleet, logistics.
- Demand Planning & Forecasting
- Effectively utilize supply chain planning procedures, processes, analytics, metrics and standards to ensure timely and efficient delivery of products and offer high levels of customer satisfaction
- Actively involve and contribute in inventory systems development. Utilize ERP system to plan, order and forecast assigned items to maximize customer order fulfillment while minimizing inventory investment.
- Support in developing annual budgets for production and capacity requirements, to support operational objectives and key performance indicators.
- Manage supplier relationships to ensure optimum supplier performance, improve in-bound fill rates, reduce lead time and drive additional cost reduction opportunities.
- Manage inclusion of new listings, activities, liquidation, expiries and lead time into forecasting and order processing process.
- Planning process through assumptions, alignment and Quest process.
- Coordinate and lead the S&OP monthly meetings.
- Monitor and drive focused improvements in forecast accuracy collaboration with cross functional team.
- Provide accurate SKU level demand visibility.
- Provide accurate SKU level inventory detail.
- Use technological tools and internal data to generate reports for the management to highlight potential risks or capacity issues
- Communicating with cross functional team to reconcile initial budget in support of changing demand.
- Driving continuous improvement in demand planning policies, procedures, systems and metrics.
- Develop short-term (1-3 months) and long-term (12 months) forecasts at multiple levels of aggregation.
- Analyze historical data related to demand volumes and values / inventory strategy and current inventory levels.
- Financial responsibility in handling supply chain budget and inventory levels.
- Procurement Efficiency.
- SAP proficiency.
- Generating Sales Vs Forecast to analyze and plan real time demand.
- Eliminating Out Of Stock Situations and providing appropriate Risk Mitigation.
Logistics & Customer Service Executive
BOE Logistics LLC, JAFZA
03.2014 - 03.2018
- Responsible to receive, review and process inbound / outbound deliveries
- Responsible for proper data loading and inventory management using Warehouse Management Software - INFOR
- Communicating with IT team in eliminating RF and WH system errors.
- Responsible to prepare Receiving Tally Sheets and Goods Receive Summary - Inbounds
- Responsible to prepare Pick-list and pack-slips - Out bounds.
- Coordinate with Warehouse & customers to ensure desired logistics objectives, priorities and schedules.
- Coordinate with direct customers,3 PL,4 PL service providers and Transporters to carry out & manage full logistics operation.
- Follow-up continuously on status of loading / offloading and Value Added service.
- Handling all shipping documents - Sea & Air Freight.
- Managing high-volume workload within deadline-driven environment.
- Prepare & manage the logistics system to optimize time management.
- Ensure 100% accuracy of stocks / inventory.
- Follow Warehouse standard process flow.
- Monitor & update system with necessary changes on a daily basis
- Provide customers with updated stock report as required.
- Conducting induction for junior associates on WMS system and process flow chart.
- Schedule day-to-day activities & monitor operations and customer service team.
Logistics & Customer Service Executive
Impact General Trading
02.2013 - 02.2014
- Order processing
- Manage a high-volume workload within a deadline-driven environment.
- Prepare & manage the logistics system to optimize time management
- Ensure 100% accuracy of stocks / inventory.
- Coordinating with the warehouse for Import / Export shipments loading and unloading.
- Monitor & update system with necessary changes on a daily basis
- Provide the customers with an updated stock report as required
- Managing CRM software.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science Engineering
Anna University.
03.2008 - 2012.10
Skills
Inventory Management
undefinedTimeline
Demand Planning & Supply Chain Executive
Mezzan Holding (Red Bull).
03.2018 - 09.2023
Logistics & Customer Service Executive
BOE Logistics LLC, JAFZA
03.2014 - 03.2018
Logistics & Customer Service Executive
Impact General Trading
02.2013 - 02.2014
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science Engineering
Anna University.
03.2008 - 2012.10
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