Ahu Dogdas Kalip
Supply Chain Specialist
Maryville,TN
Summary
Result-oriented purchasing professional experienced in vendor and inventory management. Knowledgeable about supplier relations, supplier service negotiation, cost reduction, inventory management. Experienced in managing supplies used in chemicals factory. Highly analytical and well-organized with excellent interpersonal and problem-solving abilities. Excellent experience in resolving problems and improving customer satisfaction. Enthusiastic buyer eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail and excellent organizational skills. Motivated to learn and grow.
Overview
5
5
years of post-secondary education
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Material Supply Coordinator
Novartis
Istanbul, TURKEY
02.2016 - 08.2016
- Managed and maintained accountability for factory packaging and chemical materials valued at more than $ 9000k.
- Forecasted material requirements for production activities on a monthly basis via Excel and set reorder points to maintain optimal levels.
- Created POs and SAP for packaging and chemical materials according to production needs and new project requirements.
- Managed changes in bill of material to avoid high stock level of scrap materials.
- Coordinate with quality team in order to check usability of warehouse material inventory.
Production Planner
Colgate-Palmolive
Istanbul, TURKEY
05.2015 - 02.2016
- Planned and established production schedules on SAP APO by creating production orders for each product and line on a monthly/weekly/daily basis according to demand and factory constraints.
- Conferred with managers, sales team, production team to revise production plans weekly and monthly and update schedule according to demand fluctuations.
- Rearranged production schedule with production supervisor and material supply planner daily.
- Monitored daily on going production in order to realign production schedule instantly and take actions to complete orders on time.
- Reported result of daily production in each line to factory members with explanations of each issue.
- Guided production operations and met demand requirements by determining priorities, scheduling workers and overseeing prompt production equipment maintenance and repairs.
- Created and updated the master data of each product on SAP to provide relevant information, evaluations and planning data for production.
- Engaged in both long and short-term project planning, strategizing for on-time, high-quality deliverables.
- Reviewed inventory level in order to reach targeted inventory value of that month.
- Presented updated order and demand supply status reports to managers every week.
- Developed production and inventory reports for management and sales managers each month.
- Established capacity analysis for next 6 months on a monthly basis and reviewed with managers to assess potential risks and optimize workload for each line and shift.
- Documented production, demand, inventory updates in Excel daily for excellent recordkeeping.
- Take actions to reach targeted inventory level for each product and follow up weekly.
Material Supply Planner
Colgate-Palmolive
Istanbul, TURKEY
07.2012 - 04.2015
- Placed orders to raw material vendors for local and imported raw materials based on purchase requisitions on SAP.
- Maintained optimum stock level of raw material in order to supply production needs and prevent overstock.
- Managed material inventory of 4500k $ and reported total factory inventory of 10000k$.
- Coordinated teams to identify action plan to reach monthly target level of factory inventory and challenged teams to take actions on time.
- Challenged vendors to improve delivery service performance and negotiated deadlines.
- Pointed delivery performance issues of suppliers to responsible teams and identified opportunities to make significant cost savings to areas of raw material supplies.
- Supervised warehouse members tasked with handling materials, loading, unloading, stock entry and usage entry.
- Coordinate production, manufacturing, purchasing, procurement, warehouse management, logistics management, import and exporting and other supply chain functions to facilitate business operations.
- Created material master data on SAP for raw materials and keep the data updated.
- Achieved 20% raw material inventory reduction by developing and implementing optimization methodologies for accounting processes.
- Achieved 50% raw and pack SLOB inventory reduction by developing and implementing optimization methodologies for tracking processes.
Education
Master of Science - Supply Chain Management
09.2010 - 06.2011
Exploration of what limitations appear in upstream side of the chain, supervised by Dr. Robert Mason
Bachelor of Science - Industrial Engineering
09.2005 - 06.2010
Skills
Negotiation
Purchasing coordination
Order fulfillment
Stock management
Strategic Planning
Analytical problem solver
Database Management
Master Data Management
Customer focused
Result oriented
Warehouse Operations
Logistics Operations
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Software
SAP knowledge of purchasing and production planning
Microsoft Office programs knowledge (Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc)
Timeline
Material Supply Coordinator - Novartis
02.2016 - 08.2016
Production Planner - Colgate-Palmolive
05.2015 - 02.2016
Material Supply Planner - Colgate-Palmolive
07.2012 - 04.2015
Cardiff University - Master of Science, Supply Chain Management
09.2010 - 06.2011
Sabanci University - Bachelor of Science, Industrial Engineering
09.2005 - 06.2010