Abdullah Saka

Manager, Supply Chain Consultant

Greater Chicago Area

About

Abdullah is known for his passion for strategically fixing problems, digitalize the processes and fueling growth. Results driven, analytical and highly motivated supply chain consultant with 5+ years experience in solving real-life complex problems. Experienced in designing supply chain planning solutions to transform the client’s processes. Specialties: Sales & Operations Planning, Demand Planning & Forecasting, Inventory Management, Supply Chain Analytics, Network Design, Business Intelligence, Project Management

Experience

  • EY (Chicago, Illinois, United States · Hybrid)
    • Manager
      Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos

      - Led the end-to-end implementation of Decision Intelligence skill in Area, driving operational efficiencies in the expiring inventory process in the beverage industry and delivering $1M in annual dump-reduction savings.

    • Senior Consultant
      Jul 2021 - Jul 2025 · 4 yrs 1 mo

      - Served as a trusted advisor to clients in demand planning, forecasting, helping drive operational efficiency and improved forecasting accuracy. - Designed and implemented Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) processes, including comprehensive training program, to enhance mid to long-term planning. - Provided strategic guidance to the clients in network design and optimization, supporting clients in shaping their future-state supply chain networks.

  • Artificial Intelligence Intern at Pactera EDGE
    Feb 2021 - May 2021 · 4 mos

    - Provided analytics consulting to a large food company to reduce internal failures at its plants. Assessed manufacturing processes, visualized production lines via Tableau, and designed data driven framework achieving 0.1% failure rate.

  • Assistant Data Scientist at TRT
    Jul 2019 - Dec 2019 · 6 mos

    - Analyzed customer engagement on 100+ TV channels across all major social media platforms. Performed data analysis and visualization of social media user behavior using SQL and PowerBI to communicate key insights to the leadership - Worked with product managers to collect business requirements and provided analytics insights to business partners, resulting in a 16% increase in monthly engagement score. Developed real time TV ratings model using machine learning techniques in Python to digitalize marketing process with data-driven advertisement strategies

  • Assistant Data Scientist at TRT World
    Jan 2019 - Jul 2019 · 7 mos

    - Analyzed customer engagement on 100+ TV channels across all major social media platforms. Performed data analysis and visualization of social media user behavior using SQL and PowerBI to communicate key insights to the leadership - Worked with product managers to collect business requirements and provided analytics insights to business partners, resulting in a 16% increase in monthly engagement score. Developed real time TV ratings model using machine learning techniques in Python to digitalize marketing process with data-driven advertisement strategies

  • Business Analyst at Unilever
    Oct 2017 - Jun 2018 · 9 mos

    - Helped Unilever’s digital transformation by designing a new forecasting tool using neural networks implemented in R and VBA. This tool has improved sales forecast accuracy by 15% to 20% in the “Lipton” tea category