Shadi Hussein

@Shipping Management
• Carrier Selection and Negotiation: Selecting the best transportation methods and carriers (e.g., sea, air, road) and negotiating contracts and rates to balance cost control with timely delivery.
• Route Optimization: Planning and optimizing delivery routes to minimize fuel consumption, reduce transit times, and lower transportation costs.
• Shipment Tracking: Monitoring the real-time status of goods to ensure they are on schedule and resolving any issues or delays that arise during transit.
Documentation and Compliance: Ensuring all necessary shipping documents, such as bills of lading and customs documentation, are completed accurately, and that all operations comply with international and domestic regulations.

@Inventory and Warehouse Management
• Inventory Control: Managing stock levels to ensure a balance between meeting customer demand and avoiding excess inventory or shortages.
Warehousing Operations: Overseeing warehouse and storage facilities, including organizing inventory, managing material handling, and ensuring a safe, organized environment.
• Order Processing: Coordinating the steps required to fulfill customer orders efficiently from picking and packing to final delivery.

@Planning, Analysis, and Leadership
• Strategic Planning: Developing and implementing logistics strategies to optimize the supply chain network, reduce costs, and improve overall operational efficiency.
• Budget Management: Monitoring and managing budgets and expenditures, and identifying opportunities for cost savings.
• Performance Analysis: Using data and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the effectiveness of logistics operations and implement process improvements.
• Team Leadership: Supervising, training, and developing logistics staff and teams to ensure work schedules and targets are met effectively.
• Problem Solving: Addressing and resolving complaints, issues, and unexpected disruptions in a timely fashion.

• Materials management: Oversee the entire logistics process, from the point of origin to the final destination, into various business units (Taurus Arm for Power Generation Ltd, Behzan Pet Co for Oil Refinery Ltd, Oil Terminal Tanks, and Maya Battery Factory).
• Transportation and carrier management: Schedule and manage inbound and outbound shipments, select transportation carriers, and negotiate shipping rates and contracts.
• Inventory and warehouse management: Maintain accurate inventory records, manage stock levels in warehouses, ensure space is used efficiently, and oversee the import/export process.
• Budget and cost control: Monitor and manage logistics budgets to ensure cost efficiency, and identify opportunities for cost savings.
• Staff supervision and training: Lead, supervise, and train logistics staff, including drivers, warehouse teams, and coordinators.
• Safety and compliance: Ensure all logistics operations comply with relevant safety standards, such as DOT and OSHA regulations, and maintain required documentation.
• Performance analysis: Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs), such as on-time delivery and inventory turnover, and analyze data to identify trends and areas for improvement.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work with other departments, such as Maintenance and Operations, to improve efficiency.
• Risk and emergency management: Develop and implement plans for handling logistics emergencies and other operational hurdles, including specialized preparedness for events like oil spills.
• Managed day-to-day operations related to receiving, storing, packing, shipping merchandise.

• Managed daily project operations for multiple concurrent projects by supervising team leadership, budget development and scheduling.
• Managed grant proposals and funding applications to secure necessary resources.

• Developed communication strategies for public outreach initiatives.
• Collaborated with government agencies to ensure consistent messaging.
• Attended trade shows and ESCWA conferences as a representative of the MOF.
• Compiled monthly metrics reports demonstrating progress towards established goals.