Ovuais Abdul Hafeez

Supply Chain Manager at Voltamp Energy
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Location
Masqaţ, Oman, OM
Languages
  • English Full professional proficiency
  • Tamil Full professional proficiency
  • Urdu Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Hindi Limited working proficiency
  • Arabic Elementary proficiency

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Prabhu Rajendran

Ovuais is an energetic person and leads from the front. He takes initiatives and drives it with complete ownership. He adapts quickly to the situation and have experience in handling assignments in different functions. Long term thinking, customer obsession and delivering results makes him an asset to any organization.

Charles Ramiro

Serve my recommendation of the engineer as a responsible person and with high criteria for the performance of their duties as well as their knowledge of the aspects of manufacturing

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Credentials

  • Financial Management Program
    Prolec Energy
    Aug, 2016
    - Oct, 2024
  • Leadeship Program of Xignux
    Xignux
    Oct, 2014
    - Oct, 2024
  • Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (ICBB)
    Anexas Europe
    Mar, 2013
    - Oct, 2024
  • Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
    Anna University Chennai
    Sep, 2012
    - Oct, 2024
  • Lean Six Sigma - Green Belt
    GE
    Mar, 2012
    - Oct, 2024
  • Certified International Supply Chain Manager
    IPSCMI
    Mar, 2023
    - Oct, 2024
  • Certified International Supply Chain Professional
    IPSCMI
    Mar, 2023
    - Oct, 2024

Experience

    • Oman
    • Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Supply Chain Manager
      • Apr 2018 - Present

      - Responsible for making the material plans based on the company budgets in terms of product sales, production capacities, machines, manpower to ensure optimum production levels, factory loading, optimum operating cost - Validate the demand generation, adequate sources, logistics before finalization of the material procurement plan - Member of central procurement committee to negotiate the supplier for betters price & terms in line with the market benchmark - Ensure judicial selection of vendor based on QCD & approval, timely purchase contracts, troubleshoot to meet delivery plans - Approve purchase orders including change management and close-out activities. - Custodian of inventory, ensure controls, Perpetual inventory, analyze the variance, reconciliation, Investigate gaps - Review & control the variances in the product costing with better negotiated prices with supplier - Develop plan for improvements, monitoring efficiency of processes, people & mechanism to improve the same - Critical part in formulating organizational strategy, central point of information and forward looking decisions - Establish strong relationships with various teams to develop a comprehensive control mechanism to arrest cost leaks - Leadership role in problem solving and developing recommendations and executing them for the organization - Expert in synthesizing teamwork to achieve deliverables and motivate team for constantly improving performance Show less

    • Machinery Manufacturing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Leader - Supply Chain Management
      • Sep 2016 - Apr 2018

      - Develop & implement a strategy to ensure the smooth / uninterrupted / timely supply of raw materials & consumables to the production line- Proactive planning and synchronizing the sub-contracted items to meet main line- Tough negotiator and up keep cost control / material inflation / deflation- Establish contracts and terms favoring the business, profitability indices- Close co-ordination with quotation team to offer best materials cost to win tenders and controlling the purchasing within the quoted budget without compromising quality- Inventory control, No stock outs, No line-stop due to resources- Order Analysis, Deal to deal cost benefit analysis between quoted, designed and actual.- Handle material logistics team to ensure safe and timely delivery at low cost- Critical part in formulating organizational strategy, forward looking decisions- Initiate the Lean concepts, deploy strategy and drive the continuous improvement culture- Leadership role in problem solving and developing recommendations and execution Show less

    • Leader - Operative Finance, Effectiveness & Competitiveness
      • Jan 2015 - Sep 2016

      - Managing the change in the top management without affecting the organizational performance - Bring out change in people, policies and process for better results - Analytics of Markets, Competitor's performance and recommendation to Senior management for decision making- Analytics of Cost, product, production, expenditures and recommendation to Senior management for decision making- Action plan and execution for cost-control initiatives - Trend setting and establish effectiveness measures - Lead and drive new initiatives and ensure actions accomplishments. - Critical part in formulating organizational strategy and forward looking decisions. - Establish strong relationships with various internal and external teams to gain an understanding of their strategies, objectives, and tactics to develop a comprehensive corporate executive dashboards.- Assess specific operational issues/areas (such as what work gets done in what regions, cost benefit analysis, establishing best practices, creating models for business problems, etc) for improvement and develop an approach/design for addressing the same through detailed analysis and/or interaction with key departments/functions - Lead creation of real-time monitoring and analysis of KOIs, developing standard reporting models with visualizations to aid decision making and overall strategy in multiple domains, etc. - Takes overall responsibility for the project, including thought leadership role in problem solving and developing recommendations and executing them for the organization - Can play an individual delivery role in executing complex, large analytical and problem solving modules in vast areas - Synthesizes team's work to create deliverables, including reports, spreadsheets, presentations and other outputs to document and communicate findings to senior executives- Collaborates with and presents business recommendations to senior-level stakeholders Show less

    • PLX - Project Leader
      • Jan 2013 - Dec 2014

      About PLX: PLX is a Leadership Development Programme by Xignux, Mexico. This programme is offered to potential candidates in the group of companies of Xignux to learn & explore the leadership skills to the top management by handling successive 4 critical projects of 6 months duration (rotation) each in different business in Xignux group. After the successful completion of the projects, candidates will be positioned in key leadership role.________________Project 1:- Guide & re-align the vendor base to improve the quality of supplies in carbon steel components (transformer tanks & core-clamps) to reach the international standards- Reduce the defects rate by using Six Sigma methodology for problem solving________________Project 2: - Improve internal processes to reduce the cash cycles and move towards cash neutral situation in PGE India businessKey Activities:- Identify the cash lock in the internal process across the organization- Understand the process complexity & establish the metrics to quantify the actual cost- Process optimization & related activities with the team to improve cash flow________________Project 3: - Redefine the supply chain management processes to align with current business needsKey Activities:- Refined process flow for effective procurement process with better IS (Information system)- Improved system controls to eliminate stock outs, reducing non-moving stocks and waste________________Project 4: - Establish controls & upgrade the ERP system for the current business needsKey Activities:- Assure system with no control lapse- Upgrade the system for user-friendly operations- Ensure compliance to the standard accounting practices Show less

    • Executive - Total Cost Productivity (Contunuous Improvement Leader)
      • Apr 2012 - Dec 2012

      Summary: - Responsible for developing projects to reduce material & operating cost in the manufacturing area involving design, quality and operations team, as well as transferring best manufacturing & Competitiveness assuranceKey Responsibilities: - Responsible for all the productivity initiatives across the company- Driving the transactional TPS initiatives in the functions other than operations to increase the capacity of the process without increasing no. of people- Responsible for defining the roles and process for the operational finance concepts and its procedures- Making draft Profit & Losses statement of the company with the help of finance managers incorporating operational finance concepts- Leading the projects of MCP (Material Cost Productivity), LCP (Labour Cost Productivity), OVCP (Other Variable Cost Productivity), BCP (Base Cost Productivity) to achieve the Total cost out of 8% of total sales of the company- Reviewing and generating the metrics of material content reductions, Labour cost productivity, OVCP, base cost with the corresponding managers and leaders to detonate actions- Initiating, Guiding and tracking all the productivity & cost productivity projects.Achievements: - Total cost out of 8% of sales year to year cost about 5MUSD- To drive various productivity initiatives in Material cost, Base cost, Labour cost and Variable cost inclusive of training & tracking of project leaders- To ensure the competitiveness in the prices by updating the commercial management system against volatile material inflation & to periodically analyze the price-cost competitiveness system to detonate action in various functions of the business------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Show less

    • Manufacturing Process Engineer
      • Jul 2011 - Mar 2012

      Summary: - In-charge of power transformers line to ensure best transformer assembly practices, making process and product audits, developing projects to reduce cycle time and to eliminate wastes.Key Responsibilities:- System Implementations like TPS, 5S, 7QC Tools- Study, Analyze & Improve: Process Definitions, Process flow, Work Methods, Operating manual & instructions, Tools etc- Definition of Plant Lay-out, Sectional Lay-out based on plant capacity- Business Metrics Management, Operation metrics, inventory, Cycle-time, Productivity, Visual Factory, Efficiency of operators, stations, line- Line balancing, Inventory reductions, projects on process changes, NPI projects to introduce Foil Winding Technology, VCP projects in operations, Facilitator for 5 Quality Circle Projects etc- Training & certifying the operators/in-charges/engineers in 5S, TPS, QC, Manufacturing Engineering, Problem Solving etc- Certifying operators in critical processes, Process Validation etcAchievements:- Implementing Lean Manufacturing practices and to ensure 5S, TPS & TPM systems in place, making audits- Tracking the production status & to follow-up meeting the plan- Training & validating the operators for the Lean manufacturing principles, special processes & process validation- Implemented the Transactional TPS in all the functions other than production & increased productivity.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Show less

    • Graduate Engineer Trainee
      • Jul 2010 - Jun 2011

      Summary: - In-charge of Distribution transformers line to ensure best transformer assembly practices, making process and product audits, developing projects to reduce cycle time and to eliminate wastes.Key Responsibilities:- System Implementations like TPS, 5S- Study, Analyze & Improve - Process flow, Work Methods, Tools etc- Definition of Plant Lay-out, Sectional Lay-out based on plant capacity- Control of Metrics like WIP, Cycle-time, Productivity, Visual Factory, Efficiency of operators, stations, line- Line balancing, Inventory reductions etcAchievements:- Implement Lean, TPS & to perform 40 TPS workshops in year to reduce the overall cycle-time of transformer manufacturing by 30%- Metric to control inventory, cycle-time, visual factory, productivity, efficiency of operator, area & machine etc- Defining the plant & sectional lay-out for best output according to the business needs & the forecasted load- Establishing best practices manual, operating instructions, SOPs, methods, process map, CTQ, Time-study, Motion study- Training the operators in various systems & QC circles- Various projects to bring process change & innovative practices------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Show less

    • India
    • Mining
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Trainee Engineer
      • Jun 2009 - Jun 2010

      Summary: - Responsible for the quality & production system establishment in the steel manufacturing & re-rolling. To manage the scrap melting, re-rollers & ingot producing machines Key Responsibilities: - Implement Lean, TPS & to reduce the overall cycle-time by 30% - Metric to control inventory, cycle-time, visual factory, productivity, efficiency of operator, area & machine etc - Defining the plant & sectional lay-out for best output according to the business needs & the forecasted load - Establishing best practices manual, operating instructions, SOPs, methods, process map, CTQ, Time-study, Motion study - Training the operators in various systems - Various projects to bring process change & innovative practices -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Show less

Education

  • Southern New Hampshire University
    Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General
    2014 - 2016
  • College of Engineering, Guindy
    M.E, Applied Electronics
    2009 - 2012
  • Anna University
    B.E, Electrical & Electronics
    2005 - 2009

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