M.Afzal Aziz Biabani

Supply Chain Management

+91-912**-***** • adj5ov@r.postjobfree.com • India

LinkedIn profile: linkedin.com/in/afzal-aziz-biabani-mohammed-7800b618

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

•High performing strategic thinking professional with 15+ years leadership and managing experience. Proven accomplishments and professional experience across Middle East, Asia pacific North America and West Africa. Worked in India, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Nigeria. Career focuses on Supply chain, Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Logistics, Demand & inventory Management,Product Cost Reduction, Make/buy strategy, setting up external and internal manufacturing footprint and product cost optimization. Well exposed to Drill bits and Completions Wellbore Intervention (CWI) product lines.

•An individual having comprehensive and conceptual knowledge of BMS,BCS,BPS,BHS and other standards for materials used in Oil & Gas Services OEM’s and petrochemical industries with ERP/ SAP in manufacturing & construction domain.

•Worked on both Greenfield and Brownfield projects in Construction and Oil & Gas Industry.

•Track record of managing finalization, negotiation, development & implementation of key supply chain strategies/ contingency plans, NDA, MSA, Contracts,TCO, Total Cost to Serve with vendors for materials/ products

•Deft in reviewing existing purchase/ vendor management activities, pricing agreements and instituting necessary measures for curtailing unnecessary expenditure using Lean Six Sigma,5S,DMAIC,continuous improvement techniques and saving costs

•Effective communicator & negotiator with strong analytical, problem solving and organizational abilities

•Ability to development & implementation of supply chain organizations with ample exposure to working in Matrix organization.

•Worked for projects global oil giants BP,Shell,ExxonMobil,Aramco,Wood,ConocPhilips,ADNOC,ADMA,KOC &others.

•Well versed with the current procedures & documentation requirements of Middle East,Singapore and Nigeria import and export department.

KEY SKILLS

Strategic Sourcing Material Management MIS Reporting

Lean Six Sigma Lead Negotiations SNC & E2E

Continuous Improvement QRA (Risk Assessment) Trade Compliance

Custom Clearance Matrix Organization Purchase Operations

Procurement Strategy Supply Chain Management Vendor Development

EPCC Projects(LPG) IT processes & system Tableau

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Manager : Procurement & Contracts

Sterling Oil & Gas Group,Lagos,Nigeria Oct 2019 Sep 2020

Sterling Oil & Gas Group(SEEPCO), Diversification in Petroleum Exploration and Production. The SEEPCO has businesses in 6 continents and several countries viz. India, USA, China, Japan, Europe, Middle East, South East Asia etc, The SEEPCO has ventured into the Petroleum Exploration and Production in 2006 by establishing Sterling’s footprint as an Operator in an OPEC country, Nigeria.In year 2017 SEEPCO has ventured into Downstream with SEEPCO LPG1/LPG2,SPFL(Plastics and Fertilizers),Power Generation in Nigeria.SEEPCO has headcount of around 7500,of which 5000 are direct.

•Procurement and Contracts Department is a diverse team of 54 professionals led by a HoD(Head of Department Corporate) which is sub divided into Projects,Capex/Assets,Services and Operations&Maintenance.The total purchase volume for year 2019 would exceed USD 650million.

•Leading the Project Procurement & Contracts team(total 17 employees) in handling,the purchase requisitions for all Upstream and Downstream projects(OML13,LPG-1,LPG-2,SPFL,IT &others).The budgeted spend for the Projects is more than USD 900million over a span of 3 years based on project milestone progress.

•SEEPCO,Nigeria operations are aggressively investing into latest processes,IT tools(SAP,HRMS,SRMS,TRMS,EDMS Sharepoint,Tableau,VMS others) to manage the growing business needs.These processes are at different levels of implementation.I am Sponsor for SAP,SRMS,EDMS Sharepoint,Tableau and procurement partner for others.

•Prepration of budgets and hiring plans for year 2020,review and approval by COO/CEO.

•Providing approvals and management focus to team during the life cycle of Purchase order/Services Orders/Contracts.

•Interface with other functional departments for weekly and monthly progress/updates on open items.

•Mentoring & Performance development of team.New hire orientation and development plans.

•Monitoring the MIS reports,Buyer load chart report,new projects & others with Team Leads.

•Review and approving of new Supplier into the system.Supplier base majorly from China,India & Nigeria.

Significant Achievements

•Achieved the implementation of EDMS Sharepoint for Prpojects Procurement & Contracts.

•Brought significant savings with team effort of value USD 7.36million for year 2019(4 months)

•Successfully negotiated contracts for value in excess of USD 112.91million for YTD 2019.

From Dec 2018 to Apr 2019 : Took a break to attend the personal issue in the family(Health problems related to parents)

Managing the Procurement Farm out

As Supervisor Tactical Purchasing & as Lead Sourcing and Procurement Specialist

Baker Hughes, a GE Company, CWI Manufacturing plant Singapore Oct 2013— Nov 2018

Singapore manufacturing plant manufactures CWI tools for oil & gas rigs like Liner Hanger, Safety Valves, Production packers, Flow Control, Fishing tools & other Wellbore tools with annual shipments of 100m USD to customers across Middle East,Asiapac,Australia,Russia,India,China & Africa.

•Lead the manufacturing plant Farm out team (of 4), VACR, Savings, Front End, Supplier Quality, PMTR, Qualification gap. Plant Farm Out activities include premium threading (VAM, Tenaris, Hunting, JFE&others), specialize coatings, Heat Treatment, Machining, Welding and others.

•Brought the reduction in qualification gap of team by mentoring & trainings to 50% from Y-2013 through Y-2018.

•Development & qualification of supply chain base across Asia pacific region (Singapore, Malaysia, Batam, Vietnam, and Thailand) for Machining, coating, premium treading, Heat Treatment, Rubber or polymer molding.

•Executed supplier rationalization project, Sole/Single Source, Inventory Impairment project & warehouse processes.

•Established cross functional team to identify & close the gaps pertaining logistics, customs & delivery.

•Development & yearly review of QRA, HSE (Hazard hunt, Hands free project).Plant achieved 1300 perfect HSE days.

•Volume Adjusted Cost Reduction target of USD: 3million for Y-2014 & over achieved VACR for Y-2013 by $1million and exceeded the savings goals in excess of 5 %( 6.32M) for years 2015 through 2018.

•Initiated and supervised projects for bring down purchasing front end closure lead-time by over 50% from Y-2013 to Y-2018.Target 5 days or less.

•Oversee the supplier quality metrics (OTD, OTS) for the target of 99.5% by collaborating with all stakeholders.

•Managed to increase the Procured Material Turn Rate (PMTR) to target of 4.55 without affecting delivery and quality.

•Mentored in reduction of Re-schedule in messages to less than 5% of purchase volume.

•Represented the plant in continual improvement initiatives Shingijutsu Kaizen Event & Lean Six Sigma.

•Part of organizing committee: Supplier conference 2014, Singapore. Management of SRM tools, Quarterly key supplier KPI reviews.

•Represented the plant level delivery, lead-time and quality (MRB, MCAB, QN’s, and CA), inventory impairment, claims projects.

Significant Achievements

•Achieved the best in class Supply Chain procurement department award enterprise wide three years in row from 2015 through 2017.

•Surpassed saving goal in excess of 5 %( $6.32M) for years 2015 through 2018.

oBy negotiating price with key suppliers for economic lot size(s), volume consolidation.

oDevelopment of local Asia pacific suppliers for rubber and polymer molding, premium threading, machining and coatings.

Supervising the Procurement, Planning, Logistics

And Warehouse departments as Senior Buyer

Baker Hughes, a GE Company, Saudi Arabia Drill bits Manufacturing Plant Aug 2010— Oct 2013

Saudi Arabia Drill bits manufacturing plant manufactures Diamond, Tricone, PDC bits for oil & gas rigs with annual shipments of 25m USD to customers across Middle East, Europe, Asia Pac, Australia, Russia, China & Africa.

•Holds the distinction of streamlining request to receiving the process & Procure to Pay Process (P2PS) for automated vendor payments.

•Managed the vendor consignment process, Customs duty exemption process, inventory & non-inventory ordering process

•Involved in tracking shipments, forecasting, demand-supply, and VACR process.

•Steered the Order tracking process, shipment tracking process, lead-time tracking process, raw materials pricing at global levels, additional savings reports,

•Involved in the MRP data for raw materials calculation & updated the SAP material master, requisition tracking, new vendor development, and localization of content, minimizes air freight shipments.

•Handled some of the major vendors like Element Six, HOWCO Group, Graftech International, ATI Firth Sterling, and ACM Malaysia.

•Monitored procurement department functions as manufacturing support reporting directly to Plant Manager with dotted line reporting to Global Procurement Director based in Germany

•Played a stellar role in purchase of raw materials, tooling, consumables, services, maintenance spares and others

•Carried out:

•Raw materials purchase which was mainly imports from USA, Europe & UAE of purchase volume in excess of 20 million USD annually. On set-up of consignment agreements, procurement & control of vendor consigned stock. Purchase of engineered materials like machined parts etc. through current revision levels & approvals. Support of plant set-up team in sourcing the materials, machines & services needed

•Served as VACR Champion for Saudi Arabia with target saving of USD 1 million for year 2013

•Efficiently worked on customs duty exemption approval process with clearing agency for materials imported into Saudi Arabia

•Essayed a key role in: Sourcing of tooling & production consumables locally with setup of Min-Max levels & control procedure. Sourcing & purchase of service & parts for maintenance team

•Liaised with: GRO for obtaining chemical import permits for all chemicals & hazardous material purchases. Engineering department in substituting raw materials with equivalents low price products

•Holds the distinction of developing ISO level 3 standards & accordingly documented procurement process & played a key role in ISO 9001: 2008 & API certification process

•Achieved various appreciations at the team level clients & management

Managing the Procurement, Planning and Inventory

As Material Buyer/ Planner with

Cooper Industries Middle East LLC, Dammam, Saudi Arabia Nov 2008— Dec 2009

Senior Procurement Engineer

Yanbu and Jubail Industrial City

Al-Suwaidi Industrial Services Co. Ltd Saudi Arabia Feb 2007— Nov 2008

Inventory Analyst, Kerridge Systems 8.30

Jeddah

Al-Jazirah Vehicles Agencies Co. Ltd Saudi Arabia Feb 2005— May 2006

Engineer (Trainee Supply Chain Management), SAP MM

Zaheerabad

Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd India Dec 2002— Dec 2004

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering

• Mechanical Engineering •Osmania University • India • 1998-2002

TECHNICAL SKILLS & TRAININGS

Software

SAP MM: SAP R/3 MM, PP&SD Module Version ECC7, Enterprise Structure & Logistics MM,SNC,P2P,Workflow

Kerridge: Stock Management (SM), Purchase Control (PC), Point of Sale (PoS) & Reports & Enquiries of K8 Release 8.30

JD Edwards: Project material functions of Distribution Module

Marian Material Management: Material Control (Piping) with integration to Smart Plan

Quote Tracker, SNC, P2P, Easy plot, Envision, Energizer, Team Center, Achieve, Yammer, and Box.

Training

Certified ISO Internal Auditor in year 2011 by Bureau Veritas.

Successfully attended & certified procurement negotiation training level 1 in 2011, level 2 in 2012.

Completed Crucial Conversations Training in year 2015.

Certified Chief Negotiation training-Advance Level in year 2017.

Certified ISO 9001:2015 Interpretation & Application by Neville Clarke in year 2017.

Attended trainings on: Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION

Languages

•Native Proficiency in English, Hindi, Telugu and Urdu (Oral and Written)

•Working knowledge of Arabic (Oral) & reading.

Nationality: Indian

Visa Details: Need work visa (Has Business Visa for USA upto 2022)

Marital Status: Married

Availability: Subject to requirement and offer

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