Syed Touseef Zohaib
Chicago,United States
Summary
Extensive experience in supply chain, purchasing, demand planning and warehouse management. Skilled in pricing, forecasting and reconciliation recognized for exceptional collaboration and leadership skills and for meeting project deadlines. Seeking opportunity to utilize my skills in Organization.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
MRO Buyer, Supply Chain Maintenance Dept
OSI GROUP
02.2023 - Current
- Ensures quality/ continuity of supply while minimizing total cost. Interaction with Receiving, Inventory and related resources required to minimize lost / misuse of material or any associated cost
- Plan, execute, and provides purchase requisitions and purchase orders to suppliers for materials, parts, supplies and equipment in a timely and cost-effective manner, while maintaining appropriate quality standards and specifications met
- Procure current and new inventory items based on demand, MRP information, lead-time, price, and supplier availability. Monitors delivery of the orders placed
- Matches receivers and invoices to purchase orders for correct A/P billing
- Create and maintain vendor evaluation program based on cost, quality, service, availability, reliability, and selection variety
- Reviews proposals and quotes and present information to the CSR Manager
- Maintain all procurement files and assure system complies
- Meet with suppliers’ management to discuss current and/or new opportunities
- Negotiates product and/or service pricing with suppliers
Senior Buyer, Supply Chain Management
Northshore Health
09.2022 - 02.2023
- Monitor requisitions for compliance with signature requirements
- Monitor requisitions for compliance to standards and contracts
- Ensure requisitions are processed in a timely manner
- Communicate issues with user departments
- Provide information for departmental budget requirements
- Prepares and coordinates product returns, ensuring credit is received
- Complies in VIP/VAT committee as assigned
- Compiles and provides feedback on Committee assignments
- Monitor product categories within commodities in departmental activities to identify saving and standardization opportunities
- Attend department specific meetings where purchasing interaction is required
- Perform cost analyses required
- Works with accounts payable staff to resolve pricing issues within defined standards
- Coordinates efforts with vendors to resolve pricing or credit issues
- Processes buyer messages daily
- Work with Contract Managers to support contract activities and requirements for assigned areas
- Ensures information updates are provided to systems staff in a timely manner, coordinates with systems staff on template reviews and updates
Senior Buyer
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois
Chicago, Illinois, United States
10.2021 - 05.2022
- Supporting the Indirect Procurement team
- Responsible for securing goods and services for the company.
- Maintaining optimum quality at minimum cost.
- Responsible for approving and processing requisitions for purchase orders.
- Responsible for handling special order requests, auditing vendor files, and resolving issues.
- Analysis all request and create Requisition and Purchase Order in Oracle
- Support purchasing initiatives as required. Analyze problems, recommend process improvements to streamline efficiencies
- Consults with internal project groups by sharing knowledge and assists project leaders in purchasing processes and techniques.
- Attended meetings for senior project engineers with project managers, purchasing managers, and quality & Production managers
Supply chain system Improvement Manager
Cen-Tec Systems, Inc
01.2021 - 08.2021
- Supporting business-to-business sales and customer service activities
- Managing inventory, placing and fulfilling orders, receiving and shipping inventory
- Administering procurement functions, including estimating/quoting prices and sourcing product
- Making deliveries with a company vehicle to fulfill inventory at customer sites
- Coordinating resources to respond to customer supply chain needs
- Participating in continuous improvement projects and Lean optimizations
- Create new projects in sage 100 and crystal
- Managing the website of company increase view and sale
Item and Cost Specialist
USFOODS
04.2019 - 04.2020
- Uploaded vendor pricing into PRISM cost system on a timely basis
- Confirmed every purchase order accurately using the vendor confirmation while also verifying this cost using the loaded vendor price list
- Analyzed product cost across divisions for like items to verify US Foodservice is consistently receiving the lowest cost for the product.
- Work with vendors and category management to reconcile any discrepancies
- Cleared any ending discrepancies between the received PO’s and the vendor invoice, through the Buyer Match Pay process. Work with vendors to reconcile any discrepancies. Achieve the PO Cost Accuracy % on the Buyer KPI scorecard
- Reviewed all daily cost exception reports and take appropriate action to ensure all costing data is accurate and up to date
- Reviewed Last Cost Reasonableness report and resolve any issues
- Reviewed Last Invoice Cost to Total Market Cost variances
- Weekly review of the Last Invoice Cost Book report and resolve issues
- Inventory revaluation report including auditing any inventory gains
- Set-up new item cost attributes to reflect accurate inbound costs
- Reviewed PO timing to identify and mitigate impact of LPM / LPW costs
- Reviewed PO freight costs for appropriateness and address issues with the appropriate stakeholder (i.e., incorrect freight on PO, freight rate issues)
Medical Claim Repricing Agent & IT Support
Aggressive Medical Cost Containment Inc. USA
11.2018 - 02.2019
- Repriced 75+ bills daily, helping to process 100% of the bills and claims and increase revenue
- Increased financial capacity by managing finance processes and regulation and by providing training to staff
- Issued daily reports and data analysis, ensuring all bills uploaded and processed according to requirements
- Assisted in IT troubleshooting and networking, increasing productivity by 60%
Warehouse Manager
VENUS PAKISTAN (PVT.) LTD
06.2016 - 01.2018
- Managed warehousing, and distribution operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing program, operational, and personnel policies and procedures
- Enforced food storing and shipping regulations, by adhering 100% to local and international regulations and advising management on needed actions
- Establish performance reports to monitor, measure and address control, where necessary, of supplier performance to assure timely and quality performance of supplier.
- Safeguarded warehouse operations and contents by establishing security procedures and protocols
- Controlled inventory levels by conducting monthly physical counts and reconciling data storage system
- Maintained physical condition of warehouse by planning and implementing new design layouts, inspecting equipment, and issuing work orders for repair and requisitions for replacement
- Provided training and technical guidance to staff, introducing new hire training system
- Ensured quality assurance for receiving and dispatching food shipment.
- SAP command used Mb52, Mlg0, Mb1b, Miro,mmbe,mb1c,LI12,MM01
IT coordinator, E- Marketing Executive
RAF OIL INDUSTRIES LLC (RAK, UAE)
05.2015 - 06.2016
- Maintained Server 2013, maintain Company Website
- Designed New Product stickers on SATO
- Managed C Panel, FTP server, helping managing website data and increase stability
- Www.rafoil.com
HR Executive
Executive Search Worldwide (Karachi, Pakistan)
05.2014 - 05.2015
- HR services, working for the provision of innovative, customized and integrated Human Capital solutions to our clients. Focus is to maximize our clients’ organizational efficiency and effectiveness through alignment of their HR Management and include
- Perform administrative work, including scheduling, maintaining files and sorting mail for the Human Resources department
- Enter employment data into computer database.
Materials Procurement Coordinator
ICI Pakistan Limited (Karachi, Pakistan)
05.2012 - 05.2014
- Execution and controlling the procurement operations
- Supported new product development and implementation of a procurement as per business strategy
- Ensure that material needs are met according to requirement
- Communicate with all functional areas to ensure that material needs are met the production required
- Analyzed procurement performance and create report for decision making
- Managed sourcing for suppliers, supplier analysis and negotiations and interface with supplier
- Maintain close liaison with suppliers on production capacities, readiness and material supply
- Ensure stock audit of packaging and raw materials at all till sites
- Developed data parameters in ERP’s aligned with latest stock policy
- Improved business goals with continuous monitoring of supply chain system
- Managed distributors to 300+ customers nation-wide
- Ensured all orders are processed on time in full (OTIF) on daily basis with check drug license
- Created customer’s discount, distributor commission, material retail price, trade price and sales tax policy
- Creating, Change, Display List of standard purchase requisition report, using SAP ME51N,ME52N,MESA
- Creating purchase order transaction report, using SAP ME21N
- Creating goods receipt, U D, with reference to purchase order, using SAP “MIGO”QA32”MB1B”
- Managing effective transition of the SAP applications.
- Involve in implementing SAP MRP (Material Requirements Planning).
- Involve in creating parking bills, using SAP MIR7
- Creating a standard Medical Order VA01
- Creating Invoice by VF04
- Creating, editing Bill of Material in SAP CS01, CS02
- Creating, editing Display Material In SAP MM01, MM02, MM03
- Stock Overview In SAP MMBE
Education
Bachelor of Science (BS) - Computer Science
Karachi, PakistanSupply Chain Management System Certification - undefined
City Collage Chicago
Skills
- Data management
- SAP MM
- Prism
- Operation management
- Distribution operations
- MS Office
- Repricing
- E marketing
- Recruiting
- Bill of Materials
- Purchasing Direct / Indirect
- Vendor Contract dealing
- Sage 100/300
- Crystal Report
- IT support and troubleshooting
- Invoicing
Languages
English
Timeline
MRO Buyer, Supply Chain Maintenance Dept
OSI GROUP
02.2023 - Current
Senior Buyer, Supply Chain Management
Northshore Health
09.2022 - 02.2023
Senior Buyer
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois
10.2021 - 05.2022
Supply chain system Improvement Manager
Cen-Tec Systems, Inc
01.2021 - 08.2021
Item and Cost Specialist
USFOODS
04.2019 - 04.2020
Medical Claim Repricing Agent & IT Support
Aggressive Medical Cost Containment Inc. USA
11.2018 - 02.2019
Warehouse Manager
VENUS PAKISTAN (PVT.) LTD
06.2016 - 01.2018
IT coordinator, E- Marketing Executive
RAF OIL INDUSTRIES LLC (RAK, UAE)
05.2015 - 06.2016
HR Executive
Executive Search Worldwide (Karachi, Pakistan)
05.2014 - 05.2015
Materials Procurement Coordinator
ICI Pakistan Limited (Karachi, Pakistan)
05.2012 - 05.2014
Supply Chain Management System Certification - undefined
City Collage Chicago