Ami Thakkar

Experience

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  Starship Technologies

  Nov 2000 - Jul 2002

  Operations Executive

  - Update Sailing schedules on regular basis based on the information available as per Exim, Carrier Website and Mailers from the carriers. As per the parameters, fill in the gaps wherever necessary by identifying the transshipment port and creating onward sailing schedules. - Review & Regular QC of sailing schedules generated programmatically - Prepare competition profile, consortia listing and ports of call for ready references. - Update services and translate the same into service Maps & point to point routings. Show less

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  Express Transport Pvt. Ltd.

  Aug 2002 - Apr 2004

  Chief Co-Ordinator

  - Establishing contacts from the leads forwarded by Overseas Associates. - Informing latest freight rate levels & vessel schedules of different carriers. - Execution of Shipments by timely booking of the containers, preparing the Bill of Lading as per the shipper’s instruction & updating the counter parts on the shipment status - Manifesting of the import shipments as per the HB/L with the concerned shipping line & issuing the D.O to the Consignee. - Receiving & Studying of the invoice, packing list & LC (if any) from the shipper.- Following up the shipper on the shipment details & arranging the same with the shipping line by intimating the shipping line on the arrival of the container from ICD. Show less

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  OOCL

  May 2004 - Mar 2010

  - Design cargo routing by selection of standards and alternate transport modes to achieve maximum economies and asset utilization (i.e. rail, truck, feeder, etc.) - Provide cost effective feeder connections in India. - Optimize the locations and number of facilities, including CFS, CYs and depots. - Managing consortium partnership and resolving issues related to operations and logistics. - Ensure smoothness and efficiency of ICDs including inland transportation by rail and road operations. - Coordination for Inland off-dock to ensure smoothness. - Cross functional process improvement and wastage reduction or elimination. - Organize manpower and build processes and procedures in the Region to support the centralized or in-sourced functions performed by the Centers located outside of the Region. Vendor Management:- Systematically identify appropriate strategies to procure from each type of suppliers and implement them. - Manage suppliers to ensure service level is delivered as committed and administration is handled as per agreement. - M&R Vendor management and audit. - Ensure depot productivity and services to be in line with the CLOG policy. - Systematically organise depot, CFSs and terminals to provide equipment movement data in EDI format. - Evaluate and make recommendations on the most efficient and cost effective vendors. - Ensure smoothness and efficiency of terminal and inland off-deck operations. - Establish, monitor and manage the Cost Control Process. - Efficiently and effectively monitoring of IJOS capturing by Back office team Show less - Arranging for systems generated container Delivery Orders & allotting them to direct clients or through appointed Customs Clearing Agents. - Keeping Track & capturing bookings from the system & rating with the CSO filed by the Marketing colleagues. - Interacting with Branch offices for Projections & Planning for weekly sailings. - To comply documentation formalities & obtain approvals from D.G. desk for movements of Hazardous cargo. - FORECASTING streamlining the sales forecast to plan space allocation on vessels with the regional office on scheduleled days of week to Hong Kong, CLOG & Ship planners. - Protecting space for onward connections with the transshipment ports for Global Customers. - Close interactions with Marine Operations dept. for reports on the list of Ready containers, planning of the containers based on allocation & rolling over the ICD containers in case of over booking. - Preparation of TDR (Terminal Departure Report) along with the connecting vessel/Booking numbers & the Container numbers to the first transhipment port - Generating & developing inquiries of Walk in Customers. - Creating & maintaining CPF ( Customer Profile ) - Seeking business from clients during the time of lower than regular support & retaining them. Show less

  • Deputy Manager Operations

    Nov 2005 - Mar 2010

  • Customer Service - Executive

    May 2004 - Oct 2005
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  A.P. Moller - Maersk

  Apr 2010 - May 2011

  Asst. Manager – Feeder Operations

  - Responsible for Barge and Coastal feedering execution and supporting Port operations design for India, whilst continuously delivering cost leadership to the company. - Responsible to optimize feeder/barge usage proportion to ensure lowest possible cost at acceptable service level. - Accountable for ensuring the best feedering solution to both ML and SCL at the lowest possible cost. - Procure feeder, terminal and marine services. - Establish contracts & SLA for feeder, terminal and marine services provided. - Establish & manage supplier relationships. - Develop & maintain cost benchmarking. - Own and drive vendor performance management. Show less

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  X-Press Feeders

  Jun 2011 - now

  Sales Manager

  - Constant monitoring of slots utilization and ensuring to maintain as well as build the Client base and make sure that all outbound India space (all 3 hubs) is fully maximized.- Work closely with respective LMs and Sales-in-charge (Singapore and Dubai). Provide Constant feedback to The LMs /Sales on changing market conditions. - Constantly Liaising with other offices and establish good business in Kandla Mundra, Pipavav, Chennai, Visakhapatnam, Goa and Mangalore.- Expanding thru-shipment potential (laden/MTYs) – India to Far East/SEA ports which is covered by extensive network. Eg. India-Yangon, India-Indonesia, India-Vietnam, India-Thailand etc. - Closely working with Singapore team and the main PIC for India based clients and sales and marketing duties span across South and East Asia Services.- Selling and managing cross hub services. Fully maximize the slots available whilst not undermining the rates. - Ad-hoc purchases – buying and selling activities of new services or to counter an overflow of cargo situation of an existing service. Bringing in additional revenue for the hub and yet not affecting the load factor and revenue flow of the existing services. To source for space as to what load ports and/or Singapore sales team requirement. - To ensure that the Singapore Sales, Singapore Commercial, respective LM and GMs are all aware of the purchase and selling rates prior to the actual shipment. - Assist in Credit control through frequent customer contacts. Show less