Walid Fahim

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, design & launch high impact supply chain programs and initiatives across Middle East & Africa.
• Collaborate with different stakeholders across various functions (Marketing, Sales, Finance, Legal, GR, Engineering, SNO, Manufacturing, Purchasing, Leadership) in order to drive successful program launch meeting all business expectations & success metrics.
• Develop & deploy out of the box network solutions & speed-to-market capabilities across supply chain nodes to accelerate value creation & deliver business needs.
• Build & own a 3-5yr Project master plan capturing all high impact programs & innovations.
• End to end Management of project scheduling, resource management & financials ensuring technical, commercial and market readiness.
• Balance & optimize projects portfolio, resources & cost to deliver best business results.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading a diverse team of 25 members.
• Leading supply network operations for a 400 Million $ business across Egypt, Levant, Morocco & Algeria markets for Fabric & Home care sector.
• Strategic planning & Operations management delivering Cost, Cash, Service & productivity improvements.
• Collaboration with stakeholders across different functions to deliver strategic supply chain projects.
• Leading supply chain optimization projects & work process improvement programs through designing and implementing new standard processes & solutions.
• Ensuring compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities :

• Managing a team of 8 employees with diverse seniority & expertise.
• Partnership & collaboration with S&OP and commercial teams for demand submissions and Upside volumes/IBA assessment.
• Leading SC planning for 6 leading P&G brands in Fabric & Home care Sector (Ariel, Tide, Bonux, Lang, Downy & Fairy) with 200+ SKUs.
• Supplying NE region (Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan & Iraq markets) from 5 different P&G plants across the globe.
• Sourcing different Export market Ex. Cairo P&G plant (Morocco, Algeria, Kenya, Cameroon, Uganda, Ethiopia, Libya & Yemen).
• Trusted for leading supply chain planning for a 200 Million $ business.
• Accountable for Service-level improvement, Cost optimization and Cash (Inventory) reduction.

Key Achievements :

• Delivering Best-in-class service-Level (99%).
• Delivering 3 Million $ worth of cash savings via various Inventory reduction projects.
• Full Fundamentals revamp and organization re-structuring to better serve the business.
• Leading a state-of-art "Run-to-Target" model across the site.
• Leading and Piloting Supply chain planning Re-design Project (VSA - Value Stream Analyst).
  

Key Responsibilities :

• Managing a team of 4 employees.
• Dealing with 40+ suppliers across the globe to purchase 150+ different raw materials for the 2 leading P&G Hair Care plants in MEA region.
• Leading supply chain optimization and cost/cash saving projects.
• Leading Supply chain automation/optimization project ( I-Planning SC automation software).
• Crisis management and Business continuity plans in partnership with purchasing teams.
• Accountable for Service-level improvement, Cost optimization and Cash (Inventory) reduction.

Key Achievements :

• Leading & Delivering 1 Million $ cost saving projects via logistical lanes optimization.
• Reducing Raw materials Inventory by 20% in 1 year while delivering on target service level.
• Breakthrough on fundamentals revamp and re-structuring work to ensure more sustainable business.
• Delivering 25% FTE productivity while sustaining excellent business results.

Key Responsibilities :

• Responsible for Full MEA Hair Care Business results on service, cost & cash.
• Single point of contact with S&OP team for demand plans and R&O planning.
• Accountable for customer demand validation & verification.
• Looking after Long-term capacity master plan for the lead Hair Care site in MEA region.
• Responsible for Non-Performing Inventory management and depletion plans.
• Interfacing with Regional Business Unit for major issue resolution & contingency plans.
• Leading SKU Portfolio Optimization project.

Key Achievements :

• Delivering stretch target of 17% DoH Inventory reduction.
• Delivering 13% reduction in SKU count.
• Zero outages due to capacity/demand issues.
• Total Category service level on target.

Key Responsibilities :

• Responsible for Hair Care & Cosmetics supply planning for AP cluster (Saudi & Gulf countries).
• Planning supply for 200+ SKUs sourced from 4 P&G plants across the globe.
• Leading Initiatives planning for Hair Care & Cosmetics in AP for 4 leading P&G brands (H&S, Pantene, Pert, Herbal Essences).
• Project management for commercial In-house customization initiatives.

Key Achievements :

• Reducing customization Initiatives delivery lead time by ~40%
• Delivering stretch service target level.