Prem Navaz Bin M.Mohamed Ismail

• Managed supply chain risk through flexible debt-payment solutions, cost reductions, and long-term supplier partnerships through BCP and negotiations that resulted overall in 25% BOM cost reduction.
• Developed and executed global supply chain strategies that boosted production readiness, stock availability, and product quality via VMI, Safety Stocking and lead time reductions with track record of consistent 99.5% RDD.
• Offered supply chain guidance/ coaching to a team comprising Commodity Managers, Buyers, Supply Chain Engineers, and other site supply management teams.
• Developed cost-competitive technologies, processes, and products to guide and influence product development decisions.
• Created and implemented comprehensive supply chain management strategies including end to end supplier selection tool.
• Leveraged valuable business relationships and skillful negotiations to obtain favorable supplier pricing. Consistent cost reductions of 5%
• Built exceptional supplier relationships to mitigate risk and establish effective purchasing arrangements with indirect and logistics customers.
• Strong believer in people management and in work-life balancing.
• Core strength in providing strategic solutions through long term planning, structured in approach, builds long term relationships with suppliers, customers, stakeholders and result driven.

• Shift Manager ( 2006 - 2010)

- Managed a group of Supervisors, Manufacturing Specialists and Inventory

- Lead Productivity and Floor Layout Improvement

• Manufacturing Integrator (2010 - 2014)

- Collaborated with stakeholders including T&D group, Engineering Group and Operations Team in developing and manufacturing Intel's first cost effective universal tester with a saving of $500M in 5 years.

• Manufacturing Inventory Manager (2014-2016)

- Managed 4 areas, namely, Incoming Quality Check, Spares Inventory Store, Semi-Finished Goods Store and POU Kitting Store

- Resolved non-inventoried semi-finished goods storage to keep business legal and accounted

- Eliminated non inventoried part storage by implementing mainstream inventory in SAP.

• Program Manager/Lead Integrator (2016-2018)

- Managed the first P&L product for the site.

- Process Improvement and Cost Savings

• Project Management (2018-2021)

- Successfully developed an end to end supplier management tool from request for quotation to supplier selections based on cost, lead time, quality and other key requirements

- Developed an on-time delivery tracker for supplier commit versus actual performances for analysis and improvement

• Production Operations:
  - On-Time Delivery
  - Labor Efficiency
  - Inventory Holding
  - Data Entry Integrity
  - Attrition
• Introduction to Lean Management.
• Implementation of Material Kitting.
• Improvement of Operational Costs.
• Coordination of Factory Inventory Cycle Count ( 5 major Customers)

• Evaluated operational practices and identified improvement opportunities to develop revisions for systems and procedures.
• Studied processes, implemented cost reductions and developed reporting procedures to maintain administrative workflow.
• Responsible for account management (Memory Drives, Memory Cards, and Flash Cards), ensuring quality and delivery standards. Overseeing daily production operations, managing work order control, labor efficiency, attrition control, and coordinating planning for production and in-house recovery.

• Production Lead for 3 major customer accounts
• Production Inventory Management.
• Management of in-process materials.
• Execution of Cycle Count and submission of reports.
• Leader of the Kanban System Implementation team.
• Leader of the Cycle Count Improvement team.
• Implementation of Kanban and Kitting Systems.
• Kaizen and Lean Management.
• Met regularly with production team and managers to analyze problems and plan cost-effective and high-quality product delivery.