Mir Arshad Ali
Jeddah
Summary
Bringing expertise in supply chain, warehouse, and inventory management to streamline operations and optimize performance. Skilled in procurement planning, risk management, and team leadership to drive efficiency and achieve financial goals. Adept at coordinating cross-functional activities and implementing innovative strategies for continuous improvement.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work history
WAREHOUSE OPERATION MANAGER
SUNBULAH GROUP
Jeddah
04.2015 - 01.2026
- Responsible for inventory value of $45-60M and purchase volume of $50M annually.
- Develop and maintain distribution Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- Organize the warehouse to maximize space utilization by planning alternate layouts to accommodate annual pack plans.
- Manage MRP data and ensure optimization of output.
- Coordinate cross-functional activities to formulate disposition actions of slow moving or obsolete material.
- Maintain the physical condition equipment and the warehouse though adequate training, maintenance and repairs.
- Acquire, train, and organize full-time and seasonal colleagues.
- Develop productivity and safety indices and monitor individual colleague performance against the standards.
- Purchase warehouse equipment, materials and services through a competitive bidding process.
- Prepare operating budgets, forecast expenditures and analyze expenses including corrective action plans as needed to achieve business unit financial goals and objectives.
- Maintain accuracy of the warehouse inventory by comparing periodic cycle counts to the book inventory and reconciling if necessary.
- Identify and implement new ideas and methods to improve warehouse performance.
- Assist departmental colleagues in achieving their personal commercial mission.
- Safeguard facility, operating personnel and finished goods by establishing and enforcing safety procedures and protocols.
- Research, identify, develop, and implement capital projects.
- Company Overview: Sunbulah Group founded in 1980 is one of the largest food manufacturing companies in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. The group represents leading brands including Sunbulah, Alshifa, Sary and Walima in 35 countries. The brands spread across different food categories such as frozen pastry & vegetables, frozen processed meat, premium cheese & natural honey.
- Sunbulah Group founded in 1980 is one of the largest food manufacturing companies in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. The group represents leading brands including Sunbulah, Alshifa, Sary and Walima in 35 countries. The brands spread across different food categories such as frozen pastry & vegetables, frozen processed meat, premium cheese & natural honey.
ASSISTANT INTEGRATED PLANNING MANAGER
SUNBULAH GROUP
Jeddah
01.2009 - 03.2015
- Developing production plans after analysing plant capacity for various manufacturing lines while considering inventory levels, batch size, run rates, labour resources, planned downtime, tooling, etc.
- Led efforts in the planning department to optimize and reduce costs to facilitate lean manufacturing process.
- Managing promotion drives as per marketing initiatives and the Phase in Phase Out (PIPO) items via initiative teams.
- Inventory management of over 200 Stock Keeping Units (SKU) considering a turnover of SR 31 Million sales annually exported to more than 12 countries worldwide.
- Managed the procurement and Materials Resource Planning (MRP) of over 150 raw materials from local and overseas suppliers, including Frozen Vegetable, Milk Products, Processed Grains, Sweeteners, Edible Oils, Flavours, Colours, Food additives, Vitamins and Minerals.
- Proactively led risk and mitigation planning exercises, rollout mitigation plans and strategies as required to minimize downtime in an unforeseen event.
- Developed planning routines with the objective of reducing quality risks through early intervention planning.
- Collaborated and contributed in various sessions at various levels within the organization including director and CEO level strategy development, cash flow forecasting, product development, maintenance and production sessions.
- Daily and weekly interfacing with other departments including warehouse, logistics, production, procurement, quality control, product development, maintenance and IT, etc.
- Provided stewardship for policies and procedure development in the planning division, from strategy development to implementation, with the objective of streamlining the planning division's efforts toward the business objective.
- Instigated root cause analysis workshops in the event of disruptions due to material shortages or other unforeseen events, developed learning plan and implemented corrective measures to stop future reoccurrence.
- Developed alternative suppliers for fast moving items for continuity of supply.
- Tracked commodity markets for sugar, palm, etc., to make sound purchasing decisions against market fluctuations.
- Coordination with R&D division during the development of new products and selection of alternate vendors to ensure risk exposure is minimized when new factors are introduced.
- Coordinated the raw and packaging material importation process including Customs Duty Exemptions and Chemical Clearance as required.
- Accountable for packaging material system optimization drive, leading quality and efficiency improvements initiatives with the implementation of small scale projects or correctives/preventives actions.
- Played a key role in the quality control by ensuring supplier certification and packaging standards are in accordance with packaging line capabilities across the supply chain.
- Led packaging standardization initiatives on key packaging systems including cartons, inner boxes, leaflets, bottles etc. with the introduction of new products and designs changes on packaging materials.
- Led supplier evaluates audits as part of new vendor approval to verify production requirements can be met by them.
- Led weekly expediting with the supply team to ensure order deliveries are on scheduled as well as develop alternative options if longer term issues arise.
MATERIAL RESOURCE PLANNER
SAMIR PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIES LTD.
Jeddah
11.2000 - 12.2008
- Managed purchase requisitions and coordinated with suppliers for non-stock products and services.
- Acquired quotations and samples, evaluated quotations for technical and commercial acceptance.
- Led clarification sessions and negotiated with suppliers for best value for the company.
- Supervised and coordinated stock control functions to maintain Min-Max stock levels and ensured availability.
- Generated daily and weekly Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) based program in the system for operating spares, packaging materials and consumables.
- Reviewed planned orders from the weekly MRP against usage and initiated purchase requisitions.
- Coordinated with maintenance and end users to make recommendations for reordering.
- Verified and processed requests to stock new items, created material master list in the system.
- Analyse consumption and usage rates and recommends stock adjustments to Min-Max-MRP points.
- Implemented procedures to control purchasing activities and follow-up to assure Just in Time (JIT) deliveries.
- Coordinate with various divisions in the organization including warehouse, sales, accounting and others.
- Identified new supplies and vendors as required.
- Updated stock adjustments from cycle count & annual inventory results in the system.
- Coordinated with suppliers for arrival of the shipping documents and shipments at the port and clearance of shipments as well coordination with the clearing agents to facilitate clearance of imported goods.
- Company Overview: Samir Group established in 1953 is one of the oldest and leading companies in Saudi Arabia marketing a wide range of advanced technological products from photographic products, medical products, office imaging products and medical equipment representing many well-known multi-national companies in Saudi Arabia.
- Samir Group established in 1953 is one of the oldest and leading companies in Saudi Arabia marketing a wide range of advanced technological products from photographic products, medical products, office imaging products and medical equipment representing many well-known multi-national companies in Saudi Arabia.
Education
COMPLETED COURSEWORK TOWARDS MASTERS - BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (FINANCE)
MADRAS UNIVERSITY
COMPLETED COURSEWORK TOWARDS DIPLOMA - BANKING AND FINANCE
GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY
Skills
- Supply Chain Management
- Inventory Management
- Procurement & Logistics
- Contracts Management
- Risk Management
- Team leadership
- Warehouse Management
- Procurement Planning
- Expediting & Sourcing Strategies
- Account Management
- Decision-making
- Financial management
Certification
- APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional
- Expert user of SAP S4Hana
- Certified member of Saudi Food & Health Safety and SASO
References
References available upon request
Accomplishments
- Enhanced cash flow by extending credit periods with suppliers.
- Maintained average inventory days of 30 days.
- Decreased inventory carrying cost.
- Implemented multi sourcing strategy.
- Completed SAP upgrade project ahead of schedule.
Website, Portfolio and Profiles
http://sa.linkedin.com/pub/mir-arshad-ali/38/a0/b20
Timeline
WAREHOUSE OPERATION MANAGER
SUNBULAH GROUP
04.2015 - 01.2026
ASSISTANT INTEGRATED PLANNING MANAGER
SUNBULAH GROUP
01.2009 - 03.2015
MATERIAL RESOURCE PLANNER
SAMIR PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIES LTD.
11.2000 - 12.2008
COMPLETED COURSEWORK TOWARDS MASTERS - BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (FINANCE)
MADRAS UNIVERSITY
COMPLETED COURSEWORK TOWARDS DIPLOMA - BANKING AND FINANCE
GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY