Mostafa El-Saify

• Lead, mentor, and manage the internal supply chain team to ensure smooth and efficient operations.
• Provide strategic direction and guidance to the team, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Develop and execute comprehensive supply chain strategies aligned with organizational goals and industry best practices.
• Identify opportunities for optimization and implement initiatives to enhance supply chain efficiency and responsiveness.
• Analyze existing supply chain processes and workflows to identify inefficiencies and areas for improvement.
• Implement process enhancements and best practices to streamline operations and reduce costs.
• Oversee inventory levels and ensure optimal stock levels are maintained to meet production and customer demands.
• Implement inventory control measures to minimize excess inventory and reduce carrying costs.
• Define, track, and report key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor supply chain performance.
• Prepare regular reports and presentations for management, highlighting achievements, challenges, and areas for improvement.
• Balancing supply & demand, Driving monthly S&OP.
• Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders including production, logistics, procurement, planning and sales teams to align supply chain activities with business objectives.
• Facilitate cross-functional communication and teamwork to drive integrated solutions and achieve operational excellence

• Lead supply planning efforts across functions to optimally fulfill business needs, including the S&OP process where required
• Identify supply constraints which are business critical and work with supply partners to improve them
• Identify gaps in current supply or demand plans
• Create an accurate demand forecast using the customer demand and SC data, using best practice forecasting models
• Collaborate with the purchasing to ensure agreed demand plan translates into requirements and can be delivered OTIF
• Use & maintain the demand planning software 'RELEX' as the primary forecasting system tool
• Analyze forecast performance & leverage SC modeling techniques develop tactical & operational accurate demand forecast
• Lead the demand management agenda for the category, being the key interface between commercial (sales revenue planning) and supply (replenishment) to identify and evaluate the impact of potential availability issues/commercial changes including gap assessment and risk and opportunity discussions
• Review standard consumption versus forecast at the customer and total product levels, liaising with replenishment and sales revenue planning to manage potential availability issues and the impact of under consumption
• Drive strong linkages with the commercial, customer collaboration, modeling, order fulfillment teams and supply planning including innovation and equity
• Utilize operational reviews, SC trends and sales achievements to proactively gain insights, identify issues and propose improvements solutions
• Lead weekly operations review meeting to ensure a smooth implementation of agreed plans with agile reactivity to market dynamics
• Coordinate cross functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updates on marketing assumptions
• Creating the annual budget and manage the changes across the quarters, reviewing the performance
• Key partner for agreeing & discussing the category activity grid for annual planning events & promotional activity plan
• Manage the waste program across GE and optimize the order management
• Manage all the seasons planning management from forecast, supply & performance to optimize the E2E supply chain
• Interact with sales team, category marketing & finance to understand demand forecast drivers and reconcile the SC activities with the cash flow availability.

• Facilitate Nissan S&OP meeting on monthly basis & lead the performance weekly review follow-up
• Mediates & resolve conflicts among partners, reporting incidents to the top management level
• Integrates operational planning capabilities, marketing, demand management and finance to point out where changes in one area of business planning impact others
• Ensure the transparency of key challenges, gaps identified to sorted out through NSOP & excellence projects
• Challenge S&OP parties to maintain and continuously review the implementation of plans that improve NME performance
• Promote throughout business the submission of initial plans for addressing business performance gaps and deliver those ideas to the team
• Engage continuous communication necessary to capture key challenges in business plans and understand their impact across the business
• Create the monthly production plan based on sales requirements, taking into consideration the production constraints and material availability
• Create the Master plan for all vehicles using the agreed planning bill
• Issue the delivery plan that achieve the required model mix in terms of delivery time and colors
• Assure the smooth flow of for the NPIs with related function (Change management Process)
• Prepare and present daily, weekly, and monthly reports that reflect production KPIs.

• Leading a team of central planners, handling business JLR & AM
• Responsible for planning, material ordering and capacity resources study for Launch of all projects & programs
• Manage Phase in / out of material & products to minimize obsolete stock and claim customer or any fluctuation impact liability or waste of resource
• Initiate, plan and execute continuous improvement across the supply chain
• Manage Demand & Supply planning within all new projects and end of life items.
• Study Unique material status effectively and take decisions to secure supply
• Achieve justified Results for KPIs of Supply Chain.

• Teaching APICS, ISCEA & V-CARE supply chain courses (+6000 training hours)

Employers:

• Lecturer at AASTMT collage of Management & Technology
• Instructor at AmCham (American Chamber Of Commerce)
• Trainer at Transights

• Hiring & building supply chain planning & inventory control function.

Achievements

• Measuring supply chain performance, introducing the gaps and put an action plan for the continuous improvement
• Creating policies, procedures for inventory management
• Building. scheme for SKU coding to track & trace inventory
• Designing forecasting model based on the business need & customer behaviors, enhancing the accuracy 35%
• Reducing the material & finished good inventory by 55%
• Facilitating S&OP process to improve the communication across the company.

• Supply Chain Projects owner for the new business verticals & logistics network design.

Achievements

• Launching Capiter new verticals (Electronics, Fashion, Toys & Stationary)
• Transform Capiter's network design, reducing cost by 22%