I am a motivated business professional with multiple university degrees and a successful +16 years of progressive experience in e-commerce B2B, e-commerce B2C, and retail industries in highly competitive segments as a Warehouse Operations Management specialist.
I'm currently working as Warehouse Operations Manager with 24Seven. There, I looked after all warehouse operations and implemented excellent inventory layouts, and inventory management according to international standards.
I have consumer durable’s experience with 6 world-renowned brands in Ecommerce, Retail Operations, and Warehouse divisions at 24Seven, Tajir, Al-Fatah, BinDawood, Carrefour, and McDonald's, I have experience delivering operational KPIs.
I was responsible for the day-to-day operations, warehouse operations like stock management/ sales/inventory management, customer service, hiring and training new employees, preparing schedules and assigning duties for current employees, organizing/leading and controlling employees with motivation, handling suppliers' complaints, ensure promotions are accurate and merchandised to the company’s standards, and making key decisions about stock control, attending and chairing meetings, updating colleagues on business performance, new initiatives and other relevant issues, Doing communication internal & external, with problem-solving and providing solutions being a team player where ever required.
Please contact me by email to find out how I might contribute and add value to your organization.
ahmad_afridi@yahoo.com
-Being a Distribution Manager analyze existing processes and propose improvements and new methods to control costs and enhance customer satisfaction.
-Manages the distribution of products, operations, inventory, and subordinate staff in the day-to-day performance of their jobs.
-Ensures distribution staff delivers efficient operations and timely deliveries to meet distribution performance goals.
-Direct warehouse operations including transportation, maintenance, and order management, and typically reports to a country head.
-Ensures that project/department milestones/goals are met and adhering to approved budgets.
-Extensive knowledge of department processes and full authority over personnel actions.
-Strategically build and lead the distribution team in an atmosphere that assigns outcomes and controls processes.
-Develop & continually update strategic planning for warehouse operations to provide maximum efficiency of space and labor.
-Orders are to be picked, packed, and shipped to maximize sales and meet shipping policy (current policy is orders that are in by 5 PM are shipped the next business day).
-Evaluate and support safety & security and ensure the warehouse is kept neat and orderly.
-Develop and implement a detailed inventory control plan to include 1 full count and enough cycle counts to cover all inventory locations in order to maintain minimum inventory variance.
-Lead and support warehouse projects including warehouse expansion by providing train staff.
-Always on the move throughout the day in order to understand problems and rectify them immediately.
-Manage all outbound freight within the annual budget and also manage all inbound and outbound activities and take necessary action to ensure company profitability.
Selected Achievements
- Improving inventory results by 99% by conducting cycle audit (monthly completed the one cycle audit), reduced inventory loss and partial dispatch.
- Introduce the stackable basket system instead of cartons and save the monthly cost of 1.6 million and also generate 700K monthly revenue from empty cartons scrap.
- Increase customer satisfaction to 96% from 80% by daily follow-up on negative feedback and fixing the customers' issues.
- Successfully launched stationery range and more than 700 new SKUs within the given time frame in a limited place.
- Support in distribution opening of Islamabad, Gujranwala, Multan, Kot Abdul Malik, and Karachi by providing train staff to run the smooth operations.
- Excellent damage control and start repacking of damage outer by identifying the root cause and corrective actions.
-Managing complete central warehouse operations and branch operations with more than 150 staff in Lahore.
-Always on the move throughout the day in order to understand problems and rectify them immediately.
-Always the first point of support for all departments in the warehouse and branch in order to resolve major and minor concerns of the staff.
-Manage all incoming and outgoing activities and take necessary action to ensure company profitability.
-Conduct daily briefings with the immediate team members to gauge staff performance and work elevation within a company-briefed timeline.
-Make sure the cost control factor is kept as first priority without sacrificing operations smoothness.
-Managing and supervising the supermarket and warehouse also co-ordinate sales staff and cashiers.
-Fulfill the customer demand on time by requesting goods from procurement.
-Handling customer complaints, deliveries, and supply shortages.
-Maintains store staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.
-Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
-Handle all other matters notified during the service tenure informed by the Directors.
-Make sure that all receiving policies are followed by all team local physical receivers, import physical receivers, and system receivers.
-Transfers IN /OUT, RTV, and PO must be randomly verified and monitored.
-Evaluate the existing staff in order to optimize the efficiency of performing tasks for effective operations implementation.
-Maintain clear communication with internal and external departments in order to enhance results in a timelier & productive way.
-Managing the supply chain of all supermarkets’ goods for 19 Al-Fatah branches in Pakistan.
-Managing a complete logistics system with more than 40 Hino and Isuzu vehicles in Lahore, Faisalabad, Sialkot, and Islamabad.
-Managing complete central warehouse operations with more than 400 staff in Lahore.
-Always on the move throughout the day in order to understand problems and rectify them immediately.
-Always the first point of support for all departments in a warehouse in order to resolve major and minor concerns of the staff.
-Review reports and prepare statistical work for presentations and meetings with the Directors and CEO.
-Manage all incoming and outgoing activities and take necessary action to ensure company profitability.
-Conduct daily briefings with the immediate team members to gauge staff performance and work elevation within a company-briefed timeline.
-Make sure the cost control factor is kept as first priority without sacrificing operations smoothness.
-Handle all other matters notified during the service tenure informed by the Directors.
-Managing logistics system between the central warehouse and 19 supermarkets in Pakistan.
-Make sure that all receiving policies are followed by all team local physical receivers, import physical receivers, and system receivers.
-Transfers IN /OUT, RTV, and PO must be randomly verified and monitored.
-Evaluate the existing staff in order to optimize the efficiency of performing tasks for effective operations implementation.
-Train the staff that lacks the essence of performance to reach the company's expected standards.
-Maintain clear communication with internal and external departments in order to enhance results in a timelier & productive way.
-Make sure no stock will move inside or outside the warehouse without a physical receiver check and proper documentation.
Selected Achievements
- Awarded Gold Medal by Al-Fatah on behalf of outstanding Warehouse operations management.
- Save 1 million costs of rented vehicles during the Ramadan season by proper schedule and preplanning.
- Improve IRA (Inventory Record Accuracy) by proper follow-up on receiving, and dispatching discrepancies and conducting an audit of 30 SKUs daily.
- Improve the supply chain of the warehouse and serving 19 branches and fulfill all branch's requests within 24 hours and also fulfill emergency demands on immediate bases.
- Caught the Admin manager in a theft case (empty cartons selling issue) and timely reported to the directors for disciplinary action as a result director fired him as per company policy.
- Improved 55% sales of empty cartons as compared to the last six months' sales by daily bases follow-up.
- HACCP standards supervision and implementation in pluses and spices packing area.
- Launched Al-Fatah private label Desi Spices within the given time frame and prepare a production plan to meet the target.
- Participate in franchises opening Model Town, Bahria Town, Faisal Abad Grand Atrium, Z Block DHA, and State life society by providing stock supply within the time frame.
- Participate in Exclusive stores opening Gold Crest, Johar Town, and Sialkot by providing stock supply within the time frame.
- Optimized logistics cost by defining routes and following up with drivers by implementing an in-out log computerized sheet.
-Managing the supply chain of all supermarket goods for 6 Bindawood branches in Madinah.
-Managing logistics system between the central warehouse and 6 supermarkets in the Madinah region.
-Managing transportation of all Bindawood staff by making bus schedule and assigning the duty to the bus driver for pick and drop.
-Make sure that all receiving policies are followed by both physical and system receivers.
-Stock received should be moved inside the warehouse immediately.
-Make sure receiving is completed during the time allowed by the local authorities.
-Proper care of the stock counted but lying outside the warehouse.
-Transfers IN /OUT/RTV must be verified and monitored.
-Managing out-of-stock and over-stock also maintains the inventory numbers of days.
-Make sure no stock will move inside or outside the warehouse without a physical receiver check and proper documentation.
-Make sure that there is a proper security system.
-The stock movement to branches is the top priority.
-Liaison with other branch managers for new arrival goods and distribution plans.
-Prevent stock losses during peak time.
-Build coordination between physical & system receivers.
-Report suspicious behavior to management.
-Check physical vs. system receiving on a daily basis.
-Make sure system receiving is completed the same day.
-Resolve Database issues in coordination with the database.
-Completes warehouse and logistics operational requirements by scheduling and assigning duties to employees.
Selected Achievements
-Inventory loss was reduced by 1.2 million by proper follow-up on transfer in, transfer out, PO receiving, RTV, store use, and internal store transfers.
-Improve the supply chain of the warehouse and serve 6 branches and fulfill all branch requests within 24 hours even 85% of branch requests are dispatched on the same day of request.
-Proper follow-up on empty cartons selling and improve the payment by 60% as compared to the last six months before my joining as well as 56% improvement in wooden pallets transferred
-ISO9000 and HACCP standards supervision and implementation.
-Optimized logistics cost by defining routes and following up with drivers by implementing an in-out log book.
-Managing and supervision the fresh poultry and butchery & co-ordinate sales staff and cashiers.
-Make negotiation with the supplier for rebate & upcoming promotions.
-Implement and Monitor retail sale targets on weekly & monthly basis.
-Maintain order for proper stock level and weekly inventory for the best results on month end.
-Staff management through hiring, training and allocate responsibility on daily basis.
-Perform frequently market visits to survey competitorââ¬â¢s performance and activities.
-Handling customer complaints, deliveries and supply shortages.
-Motivate staff to improve standards & to get maximum achievements.
-Achieves financial objectives by preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
-Implement HACCP standards in the section and follow up.
-Ensure 100% customer satisfaction by using optimum resources.
-Managing section opening and closing within given time as per company policy.
-Inventory management to ensure 100 % product availability for every customer.
-Conduct Quality and service audit competition.
Selected Achievements
-Participation in Country opening in Pakistan.
-Introduce the imported frozen meat first time in Pakistan.
-Implement HACCP standards in the section and get first position in audit.
-Profit generation by opening fee and rebates from suppliers & vendors.
-Improving inventory results by conducting weekly stock take and reduced inventory lose.
-Managing restaurant opening and closing within a given time as per company policy.
-Core responsibilities include planning, organizing, and controlling people, products,s and equipment of the restaurant.
-On a daily basis directly communicate with the customers to measure & improve their satisfaction level.
-Managing the People, Products, and Equipment of the restaurant.
-Managing and leading a team of more than 70 members for customer services and providing high quality as per Mcdonald's international standards.
-Working for the corporate pillars of the company which are sales, profitability, and market share.
-Independently managing the whole restaurant and taking care of all four major departments of Training, Scheduling, Ordering & Inventory.
-Resolve customer complaints and ensure health and safety regulations are followed.
-Playing a very important role in restaurant profitability.
-Maintain QSC standards.
-Daily food safety practices.
Selected Achievements
-Awarded a golden prize for the best participation in the BSM course.
-Conduct Training for staff about company procedures.
-Reduced 19% labor cost by implementing the Schedule without any decrease in sales.
-Best participation in all training courses about food safety.