Abdullah B.
Sueifan
CONTACT
Doha - Qatar
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SOFT SKILLS
Time Management
Team Player
Multitasking
Self-Development
Analytical Skills
Problem Solving
Communication
Interpersonal Skills
Negotiation
Team Lead
People Management
Adaptability
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
WORK EXPERIENCE
04/2018 – Current
Manager Procurement, AHYAA Trading & Contracting
Company, (Doha-Qatar)
Liaises with key company employees to determine their product and service needs and negotiate with them real requirements to eliminate waste and avoid dead stock which resulted 22% annual saving on overall
procurement and 90% of dead stock.
Monitors business trends and product availability to pay the best price for company goods and services without sacrificing quality or delivery times. I managed to make saving of 20% comparing to previous year since I took this role.
Draft contractual procurement of supplies and services in line with policies and procedures, facilitating the bidding and contract selection process and adhere to all contract administration policies & procedures and ensure that contracts are executed in a timely and professional manner.
Nurtures relationships with suppliers to negotiate the best prices for company benefits.
Identifies and researches potential new suppliers to target more cost saving to company.
Researches new products and services to meet
company's goals based on future projects and contracts signed by company to achieve maximum saving.
Assesses total costs of company purchases and assign a road map saving for overall company purchasing.
Develops and implements strategies for procuring, storing, and distributing goods or services and
maintaining stock levels in parallel with company projects requirements.
Oversees a team of purchasing and forecast demand planning team.
Reports to the company management on monthly basis with overall purchasing, consuming, stock levels and cost savings.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
TRAX 11.5
ORACLE R11,R12
Windows (XP,
Vista,10)
AutoCrib
FoxPro for Windows
Outlook
MS-Office Apps.
Airman
ERP/SAP Research
LANGUAGES
English
Arabic
EDUCATION
1991
Bachelor Degree of Aviation Science,
Saint Louis University, USA
Membership
CIPS – UK
Air Transport & Tourism General
Union – Jordan.
Conferences and Seminars
05/1999
35th Royal Jordanian Marketing and
Sales Conference – Jordan.
10/1995
IATA Production Performance
Measurement (PPM) Conference –
Jordan.
10/2012 – 01/2018
Supply Chain Manager (Technical), Qatar Airways
Establish, Monitor and Manage all purchasing and repair contracts in the period 2012 to 2017 which makes 40% cost saving comparing to the previous years.
Managing all Tools/GSE’s(Part 145) Purchasing from approved vendors and Suppliers by Qatar Airways quality department which resulted savings counted up to %15 of the total offered prices per year.
Plan and delegate and monitor staff work appropriately and assist team members in problem resolution.
Demonstrating forward planning, initiative, and business process improvement, whilst tackling extra duties as required.
Managing all Tools Repair and Calibration with approved vendors and Repair Stations and leaded the Repair and Calibration team to found a powerful repair procedure for the Tools & GSE’s which resulted a 30% saving
achieved by shortaging the TAT & availability of Tools and GSE’s by making interval between repair and calibration timing.
Maintain a comprehensive and accurate database of all Qatar Airways issued tooling/GSE's to
Aircraft/Workshops/AOG’s in coordination with
Productions Planning Department to ensure that all Tools are tracked by (Tail No., Work Order, Task Number, Shift issued and Staff Serial Number) to meet EASA
Tooing/GSE regulations reference UG-132.
Established and applied RFID and BarcodeTags to all Qatar Airways Tools/GSE’s and interface with AUTOCRIB system to make it auto detected through RFID Barcodes readers and transfer all data to Autocrib software.
Participate Quality audits/investigation of aircraft accidents and incidents related to Tools/GSE held by Qatar Airways Quality Department/Safety Department to complaints/determine root causes and setup a
permanent solution to ensure same will not be repeated.
Perform Annual EASA audits held by EASA audit section. We achieved zero findings of EASA audits from (2013- 2017) concerning Tools/GSE's.
Negotiate with the approved suppliers/service provider to obtain the best competitive deals/quotations based on Technical specifications, price, lead time and payment terms which resulted saving up to 22% per year.
Activated business development effort to engage with local and global innovative companies and startups so as to identify opportunities for new partnerships for Qatar Airways Tooling/GSE’s innovation agenda.
Data collection and analysis for the operations need to set up budget plans, which resulted in 18% annual
savings.
Demand Forecasting (monthly) for 2,000 rotables, consumables, expendables, GSE and Tools to 210
Aircraft by which the forecast accuracy increased by 20%.
Developed and built an innovation storage system in COURSES
AIRBUS Spares Management
Training, Dubai.
Five Stars Leadership – Qatar
Airways Training Center.
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt –
Qatar Airways Training Center.
Certified in Logistics,
Transportation & Distribution –
Association for SC Management,
USA.
Management Training
Series(COPC),UK.
Maintenance Management
Course, Jordan Civil Aviation
Authority (JCAA), Amman.
Royal Jordanian Policy &
Procedures, Amman.
Cost Accounting, Faculty of
Industrial Engineering, Outreach
Project, Royal Jordanian Air
Force, Amman.
Microsoft Windows, Royal
Jordanian Airlines Training Center,
Amman.
Business Letter Writing, Royal
Jordanian Airlines Training Center,
Amman.
Qatar Airways policy and procure -
Qatar Airways Training Center
Qatar Airways connotations
course -Qatar Airways training
center, Doha-Qatar.
Engineering Safety -Qatar Airways
training center, Doha- Qatar.
Stahlwille Factory Training -
Stahlwille, Wuppertal -Germany.
General Security Awareness
Training Course, Doha -Qatar.
REFERENCES
Available on request.
NATIONALITY
Jordanian
consists of partners locally in State of Qatar to implement all terms of conditions as per Ministry of Environment and General Directorate of Civil Defense to meet the
standards for safe storage environment to meet the international standards.
Established and achieved Category KPIs regularly assessing progress to keep Planning, Purchasing,
Repair, Delivery and Storage on track.
Developed in-depth process for order delivery scheduling and transportation to ensure reduction of logistics costs and improve supply chain performance by improving
management of logistics comprising goods received, storage requirements and distribution of incoming and outgoing material, packing and shipping which resulted 60% of logistic delays reduced and 45% of logistics cost saving.
Established and applied RFID and BarcodeTags to all Qatar Airways Tools/GSE’s and interfaced with
AUTOCRIB system to make it auto detected through
RFID Barcodes readers and transfer all data to Autocrib software.
10/2001 – 10/2012
Fleet Supply Chain Senior Officer (AOG Desk), Qatar Airways
Developed a metrics relating to AOG Desk on time performance and AOG events which shortages AOG
delays with 80%.
Developed new techniques in handling critical spares required for clearing aircraft deferred defects (Add's, MDD's & CDD's) which minimized operational disruption or the lowering of Cabin standards and enabled to
decreased DD's of 70%.
Established new software AOG Desk updating software system in coordination with IT Department to keep senior management and all Departments involved updated with AOG and critical spares status.
Established new techniques in monitor AOC loans and follow up Purchasing and Repair Group to expedite
replacement, which save 40% of loan charges.
Cut AOG processing time by 50% by building a new strong cloud data infrastructure, leading to more timely insights.
12/2000 – 10/2001
Marketing and Cost Control Representative, JorAMCo
Analyze the current Maintenance Contracts and
implement a cost review in term of payments, which results in a 70% increase in cash flow and 21% increase in spares cost towards customers.
Grew working capability in coordination with QA and Production Engineering by 30% in 6 months, allowing the company to take the advantage of better resources for continued growth.
Manage to get new contracts for Heavy Maintenance that worth 10 million USD.
Review and process all the Maintenance Reserve
Invoices for payment on time to avoid any penalties.
Coordinate with the Legal Department in all issues related to Maintenance agreements.
Design a new Capability List with attractive design and share it with the potential customers in a way that increased the chances of getting new business and
contracts.
11/1999 – 12/2000
Material Planner, Royal Jordanian Airlines
Established new process of continuous annual Technical Stores Physical Stock Check and do corrective actions, identified deadstock, slow movement stock and manage new stock distribution. This action reduced stock
shortage by 90%.
Establish a new process of advanced plus/minus 60 days of maintenance packages reservation to ensure
availability of spare parts, tools and GSE. We got 45% reduction in maintenance delays due to spares
availability.
Developed strategies, policies and objectives in areas of MPS (Master Production Scheduling) such as Customer Service, Inventory and Lead Times.
02/1995 – 10/1999
Aircraft Spare Parts Buyer, Royal Jordanian Airlines
Established work queue process, included the sourcing of parts/services, raising and managing of all purchase documents within the ERP by which the accuracy of
spare parts availability increased to 95%.
Adopt new techniques for transportation and shipping process to improve efficiency, which reduced shipping cost by 30% and shortened shipping time by 35%.
Apply KPIs for the suppliers and the service providers. 01/1991 – 01/1993
Material & Demand Forecast Planner, Royal Jordanian Air Force (RJAF)
Established Master data network analisys for all RJAF F5's Aircraft OEM Part Numbers and interfaced with all networks used by all RJAF basis for better demand
forecasting and material order planning which saved 30- 40% of demands comparing to previous years.
Worked closely with Purchasing as well as Vendors providing a bridge and working on accurate forecasting and supplying to ensure holding the right requirement at the right time. Leading S&OP initiatives including business, forecasting, Supply & Demand Reviews. This reduced material shortage with 90%.
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PROJECTS
06/2013 – 02/2018
Project Manager
Foam Cutting/Engraving to all Qatar Airways Tools
Managed to approve the layout of foam for all Tool Stores.
Manage to approve the Engraving of all Tools Stores, Workshops and Aircraft related items.
Staff training for the Foam Cutting and the Engraving.
Annual $200,000.00 Cost saving for Qatar Airways. Project Manager 01/2013 – 01/2018
AutoCrib System Implementation.
Autocrib software is a complete Inventory Control System designed to manage tool cribs and inventory stores area.
It can simultaneously control automated dispensing equipment like AutoCrib vending machines, AutoLocker systems and RoboCribs while managing traditional too crib or stores areas.
It is a location based Inventory Control System that requires having an item database and those items are then assigned to unique bin locations.
12/2016 – 08/2017
Project Manager
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE’s) usage control
Managed to reduce the usage of PPE’s to 60% less than the past 3 years by implementing issuance controlling system instead of free issuance used to followed by Qatar Airways for long time. This made a big saving equals 6 million USD per year.
06/2011 – 03/2014
Project Manager
Technical Department at New Doha Int’l Airport Committee
Negotiate all Technical contracts with NDIA committee contractors to meet with global market pricing and meet operational requirements as per Qatar Airways Technical specifications and within Qatar Airways policy and procedures. Managed to make approximately $ 9 Million cost differences saving.
Review and analyze all contracts while ensuring
maximum benefit and minimum exposure to risk to
benefit of Qatar Airways. Achieved project with minimum risk of 10% level.
Coming up with effective and quick solutions for any risk issue that arises during the execution of the INDIA project in coordination with Qatar Airways Technical
Management.
Setting of priorities and targets, and present results in a clear and objective manner to track the results of every contract.
Prepared the final project report for NDIA committee and Qatar Airways Management in coordination with
company NDIA project sponsor (MACE International).