Doha, Qatar
A Microsoft Certified Professional of Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations (F&O) and have diverse experience in retail including supply chain and product management with implementations over fourteen years. My experience enable to perform discovery, capturing requirements, engaging subject matter experts and stakeholders, translating requirements, understanding difficulties with their existing solution, evaluate current policies and practices. Align with stakeholders to convert business requirements into capabilities, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria. Translate conceptual requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team. Contribute from inception through production, implementation and post-implementation phases of project including user training. I have diverse experience in business operations including procurement, product management, inventory management and warehousing of fashion retail. Plan Demand and supply as per business plan and merchandise calendar, liaison with Sales and Operations (S&OP) and sourcing keeping in view stock turns, sale campaigns, Margins etc. Tactical and contingency plan for inventory management. Product selection and pricing according to merchandise plan by Categories. Managed warehousing, 3rd Party Logistics to maintain holding cost and Delivery lead time. Stock allocation and replenishment to maintain the right stock, at the right levels, in the right place, at the right time, and at the right cost as well as Selling Price Points. Scrutinize the risk & advantages associated with inventory. Business dashboard, with real-time status and historical trends of an organization to enable informed decisions to be made immediately. Liaise cross departments for Actual vs. Budgeted vs. Forecast to achieve business targets. Evaluation and analysis to recommend opportunities and risks of current scenario of receivables, payables and inventory control.
I performed discovery, capturing requirements, engaging subject matter experts and stakeholders, translating requirements, understanding difficulties with their existing solution, evaluate current policies and practices. Contribute from inception through production, implementation and post-implementation phases of project
• Finalize Merchandise Calendar, Business Plan, Product Selection and Pricing. • Do Sales and Operations planning, manage demand & supply and liaise with finance, Sales and Marketing to make budgetary control and align strategic decision with day-to-day actions. • Managed inventory to Improve Inventory Turnover, Stock Standards, Margins, SKU Optimization, timely availability, inventory health and plan Item life cycle along seasonal and festivity campaigns.
• Business analysis to recommend future trends, opportunities and risks associated with current scenario of forecasted revenue, inventory health, sales, receivables, payables and open to buy. • I have maintained payable and receivables of wholesale business with terms and conditions. Supplier and vendors statement. Prepared P & L for wholesale business actual Vs. Budgeted. Tracking of General, Admin and Sales & Distribution costs. • A fortnight and monthly business dashboard, with real-time status and historical trends of an organization enable instantaneous and informed decisions to be made immediately. Which included indicators of sale, Sale return, claims against targets, last year and growth by region, by source, by gender and Category, Receivables with aging and credit limits region wise. Stock movement (inventory) by source and category.
• Develop business improvement processes necessary to refine replenishment, item life cycle, promotional and seasonal planning. Analysis on sales trends & forecasts and availability to bridge the gap between supply and demand. • Develop in-season inventory level forecast, top down break-up of inventory levels from regions to shops, departments, categories & item classes. Make preseason stock standards and shop clusters; ensuring stock standards of shops and retained items are synchronized. • Inventory, cash and petty cash reconciliation on daily & monthly basis and managing stock audit reports between ERP, physical and POS systems for all the retail outlets. • Prepare dashboards for management to get better visibility of stock movement throughout the system.
• Prepared annual business plan to achieve sale target & growth, Gross Margin, Turnover, SKU Optimization. Maintain inventory levels always, while ensuring optimized replenishment; regional stock level share. • Develop in-season inventory level forecast, top down break-up of inventory levels from regions to shops, departments, categories & item classes. Make preseason stock standards and shop clusters; ensuring stock standards of shops and retained items are synchronized. • Improved processes necessary to refine replenishment, item life cycle, promotional and seasonal planning. Analysis on sales trends & forecasts and availability to bridge the gap between supply and demand.
• Gauging of shop level Stock; using statistical approach and standard query tools; based on these statistical data replenishing of 800 SKU on 79 shops to achieve sales and turnover targets. • To maintain inventory levels always, through replenishment of right stock on right time at the right place to optimize performance; regional and shop level share at subcategory level. • Propose mark down analysis at the closure of the season at item level. Post mark down analysis to demonstrate liquidation of marked down items during a defined time.