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Siddarth Satish

Siddarth Satish

Dubai,UAE

Summary

Over 16 years of work experience in the FMCG industry with key competencies in Demand & Supply Planning, Inventory management and people management. Ensure KPIs are met to achieve high quality of inventory consistently. Excellent at working under high pressure situations. Always on the look out for creative and cost effective solutions facilitating change in processes.


Partner Brands managed: Reckitt Benckiser, Colgate-Palmolive, Kimberly Clark, Kraft Heinz, Fonterra, United Biscuits, Marico (Parachute), Americana, American Garden, John West, Seara, Etc.


Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work history

Manager - Demand & Supply Planning

Al Seer Trading Agencies
Dubai, UAE
04.2015 - Current
  • Currently managing a portfolio of 25 Partner agencies with about 1,800 SKUs in Food, Non-food and Stationery categories.
  • Assign short and long term tasks to the team to help achieve and surpass KPIs targets.
  • Ensure demand planning objectives are clearly communicated, in line with expected target outlook.
  • Facilitate processes resulting in high forecast accuracy levels, reduction in ageing inventory and keeping short expiry to a minimum thereby improving quality of inventory.
  • Manage the division's stock level norms in line with external and internal expectations to ensure Customer Service levels are at best possible levels.


Assistant Manager - Supply Chain

Al Seer Trading Agencies
Dubai, UAE
04.2013 - 04.2015
  • Ensure demand plans are in line with objectives set on Agency & Division levels.
  • Managing inventory by focusing on high accuracy of In-market sales forecasting making it optimal and cost effective.
  • Develop junior teams with the objective of focusing on creating a cohesive work force.


Supply Chain Executive

Al Seer Trading Agencies (Agencies & Trading)
Abu Dhabi, UAE
12.2008 - 04.2013
  • Successful in implementing demand & supply processes and policies prevalent in the Head office in Dubai. Tasked with aligning the new SOP with the cross functional teams within the company as well as counterparts at the Partner's end.
  • Collaborate with internal and external teams to constantly improve supply processes and demand plans
  • Suggest and implement changes to the existing processes to facilitate achieving KPIs in a more cost effective manner with reduced timelines.

Education

ASCM Certified Supply Chain Professional -

Association of Supply Chain Management
Dubai, UAE

Master of Business Administration -

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
Melbourne, Australia
10.2008

Bachelor of Business Administration -

Aloysius College
Mangalore, India
03.2006

CBSE -

Emirates English Speaking School
Dubai, UAE
03.2003

Accomplishments

  • Part of the Corporate Editorial team.
  • Event Manager for Inter-State Management Competition
    hosted by the College - 2006
  • Part of the management team that represented the college at
    the Inter-State Level Inter-scholastic Business Competitions - 2005
  • Assistant School Leader - 2002
  • School House Captain - 2001

Projects

  • Part of on-going projects to automize inventory related reports via SAP Business Objects with the objective of continuous improvement in efficiency of the teams.
  • Successfully implemented forecasting modules giving a holistic view on our Demand planning processes. Forecast modules are designed to give the planners quick access to factual data to be able to collaborate and finalize with the cross functional teams on a bottom up approach.
  • Was part of a pilot project team with one of the key Partners to re-structure the Supply process for the region. Worked jointly to ensure success of the pilot program for the new Supply process which saw it being rolled out to other key markets.
  • Was tasked with implementing the Demand & Supply processes SOP, which were successfully running in our Head office in Dubai, to re-structure the practices in the office in Abu Dhabi. Involved working with cross functional teams as well as with Partners ensuring the project's success with meticulous change management.

Personal Info

DOB: 10th July 1985

Passport No. : Z4995335

Nationality : Indian

Languages: English, Hindi, Malayalam

Interests: Cricket (Indoor / Outdoor), Table Tennis

Timeline

Manager - Demand & Supply Planning

Al Seer Trading Agencies
04.2015 - Current

Assistant Manager - Supply Chain

Al Seer Trading Agencies
04.2013 - 04.2015

Supply Chain Executive

Al Seer Trading Agencies (Agencies & Trading)
12.2008 - 04.2013

ASCM Certified Supply Chain Professional -

Association of Supply Chain Management

Master of Business Administration -

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)

Bachelor of Business Administration -

Aloysius College

CBSE -

Emirates English Speaking School

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