Executive Profile

• Highly strategic in devising adroit logistics management system

to ensure delivery of the goods as per scheduled timelines and cost reductions and empowers warehouse management by inventory distribution

• Planning of Cost Management, Logistic Budgeting and Forecasting for Food & Nonfood division, monitors contract compliance of carriers and other logistics service providers.

• Core competencies of 2PL & 3PL warehouse operation.

• A competent management professional with rich experience in dispensing cost-effective and efficient SCM solutions to enhance business value & achieve organizational goals

• Proven excellence in managing complete Materials Management function entailing procurement, vendor negotiations ensuring timely supplies of material stores functions, displayed competence in managing logistics functions for seamless movement of goods

• Demarcated ability to significantly reduce procurement cost by standardizing processes and negotiating favourable terms

• Affluent experience in managing sourcing through identification of cost-effective vendors / suppliers for procurement with an aim of reducing cost while improving quality & reliability

• Proficient in maintaining proper inventory levels, ensure stocking, implement purchasing plans and maintaining contact with suppliers to ensure maximum efficiency in meeting sales goals.

• Accomplished in handling High Profile Customers & Senior Management Escalations by skilful strategic planning & retail operations.

• Expertise in building and maintaining supplier relations, rationalizing, upgrading, & justifying suppliers, managing buyer processes, aligning business with suppliers

• Upscaled team knowledge and augmented productivity by effectively training, monitoring, and directing employees in application of best practices and regulatory protocols.

• An effective communicator with excellent presentation, interpersonal, analytical, problem solving & leadership skills Key Impact Areas

Key Skills

Career Timeline

Aug’99 - Jan’04 Jul’01 - Nov’11 Dec’11 - Nov’18 Dec’18 - Nov20 Nov’20 - Till date MOSAF SAHA

+965-********, +91-720******* adz2v8@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/mosaf-saha-oob2731114

A versatile professional having 18+ years of profound experience in Global Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Warehouse Management & Strategic processes, Inventory Management, Logistic Set up, Vendor Management, Key Account Management, Customer Retention and Team Management across retail industry in an organization of high repute. Supply Chain

Management

Warehouse

Management

Strategic

Procurement

E-Commerce

Management

Budgeting

/Cost

Negotiation

Logistic

Operation

Shipment

Management

Business

Development

People

Management

Vendor

Management

Key

Skills

M.H. Alshaya Co.

W.l.l. Kuwait

Landmark

Group, Baby

Shop Brand,

Kuwait

Nutrine India

Pvt. Ltd.

Venture Co. W.l.l

Kuwait

Landmark

Group, Home

Center Brand,

Kuwait

Education & Credentials

• MBA (Supply Chain Management) from Shobhit University, Meerut, UP, India- 2014

• Degree - Political Science (Honors) from UTKAL University, Orissa, India- 1996

• Diploma in Computer Application – 1995

• Software Skillset: BOSS – Back Office Sales System, Oracle 10 G, Gold, Aims Professional Experience

Nov’20-Till date: Venture Co. Wl.l. Kuwait, as Warehouse Operation Manager. Venture Group (www.venturefoodskw.com) - A leading Restaurants group with various brands in Kuwait with 1,000+ employees, 17 brands, 20Mn sq. ft. storage facility space

• Food warehouse inventory needs to be available of all items, with proper temperature and equipment.

• Strategically plan and manage food items prior expiry and hygiene.

• Planning and budgeting for complete logistics operational cost and storage space.

• Direct, optimize and coordinate full order supply chain workflow cycle.

• Daily monitors inbound and outbound activities in line with forecasted volumes.

• Optimize the storage capacity most at lower cost effective.

• Keep track of quality, quantity, stock levels, delivery times, transport costs and efficiency.

• Monitor daily warehouse activities, delivery and receiving, plan routes and process shipments.

• Meeting with vendors for better negotiation and services.

• Supervise, coach and train warehouse workforce for easy tracking of warehouse challenges.

• Meet budgeted cost, productivity of picks & dispatch accuracy and timeliness targets.

• Comply with laws, regulations, and legal document requirements.

• Monitor non-moving stocks and suggest for clearing.

• Monitor ICT, Stock consolidation among the stores and country.

• Monitoring supply chain activities, shipments, and freight movements.

• Organizing team developmental activities, helping them on their needs and developing tools in MS Excel for easy tracking day to day activities.

Highlights

• Demonstrated professional credibility in handling international clients like Talabat, Deliveroo, Porter Express across all FMCG Products, Cosmetics, Food, Furniture and House Holds sectors

• Significantly designed and owned methods to analyse, model and simulate inventory and supply chain policies and product flow and ensured 15.6% of an additional revenue to the business in 2021.

• Substantially maintained outstanding store condition and visual merchandising standards and reported on buying trends, customer needs and profits and resulted in 46% sales growth and 92% cost savings

• Meeting international clients like Talabat, Deliveroo, Porter Express and offering various schemes on storage charges and deliveries, which results an annual growth of 14%

• Empowers warehouse management and successful in setting up 3PL/2PL warehouses of 25k sqft. each from scratch

• Adept in International Delivery system liaising with 3rd party carrier, DHL, FEDEX and ARAMEX. Dec’18-Nov20’: Landmark group Kuwait (Home Centre Brand), as Regional Logistic Manager Landmark Group (www.homecentre.com) - A leading mass retailer in Kuwait with an enormous presence in the Middle East & India, with 55,000+ employees, 15 brands, 1.5 mn sq. ft. storage space.

• Possess in depth knowledge of Logistics, Inbound, Outbound, Forecasting, Inventory, and Freight Forward, Purchase management, import management.

• Handle stock flow import and export globally with stakeholders such Maersk line, Damco, Agility, Allport, Ceva.

• Evaluating vendor performance based on PQD (Product/ Quality/ Delivery) for expectation of services from vendor.

• Retaining/ eliminating of vendors based on vendor performance evaluation.

• Accountable Stakeholders SOP process throughout, evaluate and amend based on demand and WH capacity.

• Manage inventory levels of 65K SKU to optimize service levels within the budget.

• Lead change to develop processes to support and optimize planning, and to control processes to assist operations in achieving KPI targets.

• Reconciling of payment & claim details from vendors and shipping based on PO and Invoice.

• Responsible shipment clearance delivery in order to have a healthy inventory position.

• Instruct team to watch daily tracker of inbound and out bound volume in DC and store.

• Closely monitoring with core products availability market wise and ordering accordingly.

• Responsible for maintaining targeted inventory cover and new stock ordering within the Procurement budget every season.

• Liaising with team, understanding and providing the best working tools in excel for reordering, which takes care of Rate of Sales, closing stock and stock in transit.

• Playing vital role in shipment tracking, with shipping agents in order to have better availability

• of stocks.

• Tracking amount of demurrage and detention builds up and exploring to vendors, shipping

• agents & host brand.

• Providing efficient reporting tools on excel to team for tracking shipments and freight Highlights

• Responsible for 6 retail stores Business Operation in Kuwait, each store avg. of 47.7k sqft. with 213,909$ daily avg. sales and ensured revenue growth of 13% vs. LY. With proper demand and supply from warehouse.

• Successfully introduced complete set up of Ecommerce business in Kuwait in July 2020, resulted at 105 % of sales growth vs. budget.

• Significantly handled assortment planning, product ranging for 65,000+ SKUs. Dec’11-Nov’18: M.H. Alshaya Co. W.l.l, as Senior Supply Chain Planning Analyst for Home Furnishing Division M. H. Alshaya Co.(www.alshaya.com) #1 retailer in Kuwait and one of the top in the Middle East, is a leading international franchise operator, with 90+ of the world’s most recognized brands in the portfolio. presence across the Middle East & North Africa, Russia, Turkey, Europe and beyond through 4,500+ stores, 60,000+ employees and 15Mn sq. ft retail space

• Dynamically managed inventory flow of local and international shipments with effectively optimizing space.

• Adroit in dealing with 56K+ SKU in each brand for complete PO management process, Reordering stocks and maintain healthy stock cover across Middle East.

• Substantially managed receiving, storage, and dispatch & logistics arrangements, ensuring proper & safe storage of goods and effective space utilization

• Worked closely with the sales team to have the better planning and reduce the mismatch between demand and supply which helps to decide stock consolidation between the countries (ICT) to have better availability

• Keep track of inventory, anticipate demand, and suggest purchases to ensure production continuity.

• Excellence in devising annual plans for Logistics to understand the storage capacity for forthcoming shipments with inbound and outbound volume

• Ensured and implemented safety guidelines in all aspects of the supply chain processes. Highlights

• Accomplished savings of 400k kwd annually in shipping of all brands ICT stocks together in FCL mode

• Played a vital role in switching 45000 sqft. warehouse in UAE market – 2014

• Successfully implemented Invoice Scanning Solution through OMNI Flow – 2015 Jul’01-Nov’11: Landmark Group, Kuwait (Baby shop brand) as Warehouse supervisor.

• Assists with the planning, organizing, and supervision of the operations in the warehouse, including the receipt, storage, and delivery of supplies all products in the stores.

• PO making and reordering the stocks from local and UAE market.

• Inventory managing with accuracy and storing them by optimizing maximum storage management. Personal Details

DOB: 26th Apr 1976

Address: Kuwait

Languages Known: English, Hindi, Urdu, Oriya, Tamil, Bengali and Arabic Kuwait Driving License: Valid for Middle East until 2025, D/L No -276*********

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