Lazarus Dasari
Bangalore
Summary
10+ years experienced supply chain professional with extensive experience in planning, inventory control, vendor relations, logistics, warehouse activities & purchasing. Skilled Demand & Supply Planner who develops, maintains, and manages key performance data for the senior management teams. Experience in creating strategies and leading execution of all supply chain activities, including procurement, manufacturing and distribution management. Manages and leads cross-functional teams to drive product supply and productivity improvements, leads risk mitigation. Looking for a challenging role to utilize system improvement and cost-saving approaches to leverage unutilized skills and opportunities.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Operations Executive
Al Raba Technologies , Dubai , UAE
04.2023 - Current
- Built and strengthened relationships across functional leadership areas to keep revenue development and operational plans interconnected and effective.
- Applied excellent problem-solving, process development, and strategic implementation skills to lead and support all areas of operations.
- Set clear goals to monitor targets and offered real-time input on performance and motivation.
- Assisted with proactive client outreach initiatives and documented client correspondence in CRM system.
- Defined strategic goals to drive resource allocation, capability requirements and budgeting activities.
- Efficiently and effectively identified and solved all problems that impacted direction of business.
- Oversaw projects to help goals, tasks and milestones align with organizational strategy.
- Collaborated on operational support tasks to achieve common goal.
- Leveraged meeting minutes to measure progress and accountability.
Supply Chain Executive
NATIONAL FOOD PRODUCTS COMPANY
01.2015 - 01.2023
- Have firmly set footprint in the regional Food & Beverage industry through brands such as Oasis, Lacnor, Blu, Laban Up, Gulf & Safa, Melco, Milco, Royal Bakers and Aqua Fresh
- Addressed and resolved order discrepancies to improve quality and maintain organization's reputation.
- Negotiated contracts with suppliers and customers.
- In addition, the company exports to over 40 countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia
- Lead and manage Demand and Supply Planning for UAE, which includes Oman Distribution Operations and Exports processes
- Review historical sales trends and demand drivers to develop tentative forecast for finished goods at multiple levels of aggregation to support sales, service and inventory goals
- Development of plans at product level by region, understanding the affects of the economy, market trends, turns and assortment planning
- Take actions when needed to allocate volumes in situations of shortage
- Recommend and make consensus adjustments based upon changes in demand trending and inventory goals on a weekly basis
- Implemented inventory-management strategies to maximize availability and decrease waste
- Established inventory targets, stock level, and risk mitigation targets and managed flexibility strategy to optimize inventory
- Monitors and maintains quality and productivity
- Monitor the short- and long-term forecasts, identify and highlight risk related to execution of production plan due to capacity constraints
- Interact with Sales and Marketing to understand Customer plans and other demand input to identify gaps, supply risks and opportunities across business lines or entities
- Identify excess and obsolete inventory; recommend and drive disposition
- Monitor SKU levels and recommend SKU rationalization initiatives; proactively facilitate life cycle management across functional teams to optimize service and eliminate E&O
- Streamlined shipping and receiving operations to reduce errors and improve customer satisfaction
- Tracked and monitored purchase orders, deliveries and invoicing to verify accuracy and compliance, resolve discrepancies between sales forecasts and demand forecasts
- Monitored and tracked supplier performance to enforce adherence to quality standards and established timelines
- Ensure product life cycles are correctly maintained for new products are launched in a timely manner, that end-of-life products are phased out in accordance with company plans and inventory targets, and that product substitutions are managed effectively
- Organized and maintained correct inventory levels to drive highest turns possible on inventory
- NFPC was founded in 1971, with the establishment of a dairy production facility in the middle of the Arabian Desert
- A Multi-Million Dollar Organization
- Company's primary target remains at providing excellent quality services to customers
- Have firmly set footprint in the regional Food & Beverage industry through brands such as Oasis, Lacnor, Blu, Laban Up, Gulf & Safa, Melco, Milco, Royal Bakers and Aqua Fresh
- In addition, the company exports to over 40 countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
- Tracked KPIs to generate reports for supply chain performance.
- Developed solutions to address problems in distribution and transportation of products.
- Assessed vendor operations according to quality benchmarks and standards.
- Analyzed, optimized and oversaw inventory procedures to improve supply chain operations.
Logistics Sales Coordinator
Sharaf DG
01.2012 - 12.2014
- Company Overview: Sharaf Group is one of UAE's largest and most respected business conglomerates
- It comprises of over 60 operating companies in more than 6 business sectors: Information Technology; Shipping; Retail; Real Estate; Financial Services; Consumer Products; Travel and Tourism; and Construction
- Sharaf Group is one of UAE's largest and most respected business conglomerates
- It comprises of over 60 operating companies in more than 6 business sectors: Information Technology; Shipping; Retail; Real Estate; Financial Services; Consumer Products; Travel and Tourism; and Construction
Customer Support Associate
FIRSTSOURCE BPO Pvt. Ltd.
04.2007 - 02.2009
Education
BBA - Business Administration
Annamalai University
Chennai, India10-2011
Skills
- Demand & Forecasting
- Logistics Scheduling
- Data Visualization
- Inventory Management
- Continuous Improvement
- Lead S&OP review
- Analytical Capabilities
- Customer Service
- Problem-Solving
- Strong Communication
- SAP - ERP
- Oracle
- JD EDWARDS
- Power BI
- CRM
- Microsoft Office
Accomplishments
- Certification in Global Supply Chain Management (CPD).
- Certification in Supply Chain and Logistics Management (CPD).
- Awarded for Outstanding Performance (during Covid by NFPC).
- Awarded for Long Term Service (by NFPC).
- Awarded for Outstanding Performance (by Sharaf DG).
Languages
English
Hindi
Kannada
Tamil
Telugu
Urdu
Timeline
Senior Operations Executive
Al Raba Technologies , Dubai , UAE
04.2023 - Current
Supply Chain Executive
NATIONAL FOOD PRODUCTS COMPANY
01.2015 - 01.2023
Logistics Sales Coordinator
Sharaf DG
01.2012 - 12.2014
Customer Support Associate
FIRSTSOURCE BPO Pvt. Ltd.
04.2007 - 02.2009
BBA - Business Administration
Annamalai University
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