Reza Afshar

Experience

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  Mammut World

  Sept 2004 - Oct 2008

  Production Planning Manager

  - Supervision on maximizing production outcome through tight control of all finished product stocks and maintaining the availability of the product to meet customer demands by directing planning processes to ensure committed lead-times from order placement to order fulfillment whilst minimizing risk of financial exposure to Mammut Group;- Leading all operations planning, the entire import and export planning and production processes in alignment with company business strategies by creating CRP (Capacity Resource Planning) in cooperation with production staff;- Management of inventories and determining economical production runs to have the lowest possible overall costs and establishing production plan for each production line aiming to maximize the use of resources;- Anticipating and adjusting roadblocks and measuring performance against goals by evaluating results by focusing on high customer satisfaction and monitoring delivery lead time regularly via a systematic manufacturing management. Show less

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  PAPCO

  Nov 2008 - Dec 2014

  Planning & Operations Manager

  - Providing the workshop with the best solution to manufacture an item/machine, with improved results, looking at the following: quality, price and time and if there can be an improvement of the design of the product;- Managing all aspects of manufacturing including people, budgets, planning, production processes, maintenance, quality control, warehousing, and distribution;- Delivering high-quality products with minimum cost while designing new and better products, production systems and targeting financial growth;- 30% increase in the efficient production rate between the years 2011-2013 via precise and methodical time and work study and an exact production supervision;- Implementing MRPǁ on the web to be linked with CRM to help Papco sales staff and also clients to supervise the production of their orders;- Establishing Papco Training Center, planning for staff development and driving-related training courses which decreased 45-50% accidents rate in the workplace due to workplace safety courses;- Running technical content-related operational concepts and obtaining customer specifications to communicate to the plant on time for implementation, ensuring the right service and customer satisfaction. Show less

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  Buhler Group

  Jan 2015 - Dec 2019

  Lead Industrial Engineer

  - Providing manufacturing & automation solutions, quotations to fulfillment and customer service departments and providing workshop and purchasing department with complete work instructions to manufacture according to manufacturing orders;- Consciously supporting capital projects department in developing tender documentation for new plants and big expansion projects in Middle-East and Africa region. Improve training and development initiatives in concert with human resources;- Dynamically adapting divisional control and automation projects across South Africa and instituting a culture of continual improvement in manufacturing system standards across South Africa. Aligning and standardizing manufacturing architecture, consolidated and standardized suppliers and service levels, and managing traineeship of automation graduates;- Actively managing manufacturing and automation projects by collaborating with project managers and key suppliers to ensure quick problem resolution. Providing instrumentation and control roadmap and executing key strategic projects in alignment with plans;- Delivery of Business Objectives and meeting customers’ acquisitions through execution of building up long-lasting and trust relationships with customers, assessment of market requirements technically and identifying. Show less

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  Rockwell Automation

  Jun 2020 - now

  - Accelerating the development of EMEA business demand planning strategies, goals, processes, systems, metrics, and capabilities to meet ongoing business requirements and corporates’ S&OP standards;- Understanding corporates' strategic objectives and deploying them into viable supply & demand plans, preparing the supply chain planning lead for the monthly S&OP cycle and feed systems with the data necessary;-Developing and maintaining a monthly supply & demand alignment & consensus cycle and directing and improving the monthly collaborative demand planning process with the country business planning and sales teams to achieve sales and forecast accuracy objectives;- Supporting stakeholders on different kinds of assumptions, providing insights on risks & opportunities, decision influencing in an unbalanced situation around supply & demand in product volume and plants;- Providing insights and decision documents regarding quantitative and qualitative developments by means of periodical (S&OP, budget, RF and LRP) and Ad-Hoc reports and/or analyses, based on reporting guidelines to drive PDCA cycle;- Collaborating with the global demand planning community on developing demand planning excellence program and participate in cross-functional project teams. Show less - Leading the entire EMEA Demand Planning processes, projects and operational activities to ensure that main objectives are pursued proactively.- Determining the forecast model that fits best to business patterns in order to give guidelines to planners for their forecasting activities.- Working collaboratively with GSM to ensure key assumptions on anticipated market movements and commercial strategy are reflected within the forecasts.- Providing input to Supply Management Review (SMR) to develop inventory strategies on existing items, new products, and product phase-outs. Show less - Develop improvement projects for key Global Planning deliverables including Service and Inventory performance;- Leading the global inventory and supply planning process, and configuration to ensure optimal interdependent alignment of Capital to Customer Service Level strategies;- Working with Supply Chain partners to drive holistic continuous improvement through collaboration resulting in increased Customer loyalty, reduced inventory entitlement, and productivity;- Working with regional material program leads and global supply chain planners to drive planning parameter strategy review and update. Show less - Support demand planning teams with pro-active analysis on seasonality, trends, and deviations on different levels (SKU, brand/pack/channel/key account) to be reflected in the future forecast, using various analysis tools.- Review baseline forecast by SKU and by Key Account on the short and long-term horizon, data to be used as input for monthly S&OP meeting.- Analyse, challenge, review and collaborate with the account managers on the expected uplift of national promotions by SKU and by Key Account and impact on other brands/packaging.- Analyse, explain, and follow-up on deviations between the sales forecast and actual deliveries to correct future expectations.- Review historical data together to create a Cleansed Demand History, SKU, and Key Account Disaggregation. Show less

  • EMEA Demand Planning Program Manager

    Nov 2022 - now

  • EMEA Demand Planning Program Lead

    Jan 2022 - Nov 2022

  • EMEA Demand & Materials Analyst

    Jun 2021 - Jan 2022

  • EMEA Demand Planner

    Jun 2020 - May 2021