Syed Ali

Syed Ali

Customer Service Specialist

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Business Planning Analyst at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

  • Education

    • University of Houston, C.T. Bauer College of Business

      2012 - 2015
      Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Supply Chain Management Supply Chain Management 3.25 GPA

      Activities and Societies: ISM Bauer •Participated in a case competition with Halliburton. I worked with a team of 5 members to clean and analyze 26,000+ lines of Microsoft Excel data to determine the overall hydrochloric acid spend, top spend regions, and products. Our team created a spend and market analysis on the hydrochloric acid market in order to develop new business strategies to increase leverage on suppliers to reduce cost, while maintaining regional availability•Participated in a case competition hosted by… Show more •Participated in a case competition with Halliburton. I worked with a team of 5 members to clean and analyze 26,000+ lines of Microsoft Excel data to determine the overall hydrochloric acid spend, top spend regions, and products. Our team created a spend and market analysis on the hydrochloric acid market in order to develop new business strategies to increase leverage on suppliers to reduce cost, while maintaining regional availability•Participated in a case competition hosted by Schlumberger. Our 5 member team utilized Microsoft Excel to analyze and clean 29,000+ lines of data and identified the top spend non-chemical commodity, and worked to conduct a market analysis for that high runner commodity.•Competed in an ISM Bauer hosted case competition, where our team worked to create a process to manage inventory and distribution logistics of products at over 2000 Home Depot locations Show less

    • Houston Community College

      2009 - 2011
  • Experience

    • Southeastern Freight Lines

      Mar 2017 - May 2018
      Customer Service Specialist

      •Act as the liaison between the customers and dispatch crew, ensuring that all customer concerns and requests are accommodated and attended to.•Help dozens of customers track their shipments and pick-ups daily, ensuring that they receive superior customer service in order to keep their businesses operating on time.•Work to assign and process bills of lading and delivery receipts, ensuring that they are all converted to digital format and archived accordingly for future reference.•Prepare daily reports for management regarding bills of lading, deliveries, returns, and damaged goods. Show less

    • Hewlett Packard Enterprise

      May 2018 - now

      Manage Americas side of internal MRP system which tracks and identifies company wide part shortages for procurement team to act on.• Work with cross-functional teams to facilitate the reliability and accuracy of data sources and escalate issues as necessary. Make contributions to development and testing of priority projects within established guidelines.• Lead weekly meetings with suppliers to enhance data coming from supply partners and track ongoing projects to improve data and implement new processes.• Strive to standardize business practices between regions and help break down silos.• Analyze business needs and create visualizations to track KPI’s and help end users make informed business decisions.• Actively monitor data ingestion into analytical systems to verify that programs are running smoothly with most current and accurate data. Show less •Identify top part shortages impacting orders worth over $100 million combined in order to provide visibility and actionable items to the procurement org and upper management•Analyze large excel data sets to create reports documenting various part shortages, which helps get large orders shipped and delivered to our customers on a timely basis•Lowered the amount of unknown material group classifications by 33%, helping to improve data visibility to make inventory data as accurate as possible•Helped identify and reduce the amount of orders aged over 60+ days from over •Utilize SAP to cross-check part and order statuses on shortages•Use macros to analyze excel files containing over 100,000+ lines of data •Work in a global cross-functional team to assist in the development of a SQL based program to evaluate data on parts inventories and orders•Work with ODM’s to resolve data inaccuracy issues in files used in day to day reporting functions, ensuring higher levels of accuracy in shortage figures Show less

      • Business Planning Analyst II

        Jan 2021 - now
      • Procurement Operations Analyst II

        May 2018 - Jan 2021
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Strategic Sourcing

      University of Houston
      Dec 2015
    • Energy Supply Management

      University of Houston
      Dec 2015