Yusra Nasser

Deep knowledge of Procurement & supply chain procedures with +10 years' practical experience. Leading implementation of ERP system. Skilled in Negotiation & Managing suppliers' contracts globally. Strong in planning transportation budget. Proven Sales increase & Cost reduction.

Supply Chain Manager at Mueller Middle East (MME) (2022-12 – Present)

• Achieving sound purchasing decisions through comparison between different vendors quotations.
• Works within a given budget to purchase goods and services as required by MME.
• Ensures that products are delivered in a timely manner, and that the quality of the goods received is satisfactory.
• Negotiates with contractors on price, mode of shipping, and delivery time.
• Orders goods such as office supplies on a continuing basis to maintain certain inventory levels, based on ERP input and purchase orders.
• Checks invoices for accuracy and authorizes the accounts payable department to issue payment.
• Evaluates the performance of vendors to assess their ability to meet our needs and make recommendations on whether to renew contracts.
• Keep update list for Inventory items & maintaining level replenishment based on Max & MOQ.
• Enters data concerning inventory and order amounts into ERP.
• Teach & train new team members in the correct and efficient operation of the process.
• Develop, lead, and execute purchasing strategies.
• Track and report key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness.
• Craft negotiation strategies and close deals with optimal terms.
• Handling contracts for insurance policies related to property, cyber security, and employee medical benefits.
• Partner with stakeholders to ensure clear requirements documentation.
• Forecast price and market trends to identify changes of balance in buyer-supplier power.
• Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking.
• Determine quantity and timing of deliveries.
• Monitor and forecast upcoming levels of demand.
• Seek and partner with reliable vendors and suppliers.

Head of Logistics & Procurement at Installux Gulf Company (2017-07 – 2022-11)

• Leading Procurement activities of Aluminum profiles & accessories to build Private villas & Buildings through ERP System.
• Developing & implementing cost-effective procurement strategies.
• Warehouse management, ensuring inventory data is updated & maintaining optimum stock level plan.
• Working with technical team to achieve value engineering & cost reduction for securing projects.
• Handling Vendor selection process, contract management & rate negotiation.
• Selection of freight forwarders, contract handling, monitor their performance & managing Shipping rates.
• Dominant ERP implementation & supply chain process evaluation.
• Full cost analysis & Budgetary control.
• Handling reverse logistics process for any defects or discrepancies in deliveries. Taking actions for reoccurrence prevention.
• Aggregating the shipping of orders from different suppliers across GCC.
• Handling Shipping documents attesting & dealing with clearing agents.
• Handling customers' enquiries & preparation of quotations.
• Reporting to management on monthly basis.

Purchasing Officer at Analytica One Company (2016-04 – 2017-06)

• Purchasing of medical and laboratory equipment's online from reputable suppliers in Japan, USA, Switzerland and France.
• Working on ERP System.
• Conduct comparison between suppliers' prices.
• Checking with different couriers and freight forwarder to get the lowest shipping charges.
• Developing & maintaining liaisons with clearing agents.
• Ensure on time delivery of purchased medical and laboratory equipment's.
• Evaluation & review of suppliers in terms of communicational performance & establishing preferred supplier list.
• Ensure that the actual shipping charges are close to already set estimated charges to gain maximum possible profit.
• Handling renewal of shipping contracts along updating its terms & condition with booking for insurance on shipments.
• Sending & replying to Suppliers & sales team emails.

Operations Officer at Spatial Technologies Solutions (2015-03 – 2016-04)

• Online searching & purchasing of different Vehicle tracking devices & Garmin devices.
• Negotiation of devices buying contracts & monitoring the quality of purchased devices.
• Providing customers with quotation and Processing of purchasing orders.
• Advising customers about which tracking device matches their needs.
• Searching for best suppliers & equipment in terms of quality, value & shipping costs.
• Placing purchasing orders for Sim-Cards either from Zain or Batelco.
• Sending & replying to customers' emails.
• Doing presentation of our products to possible clients.
• Entering all data of received tracking devices & Sim-Cards in S-Admin& Smart Track.
• Updating all modified data after manual inspections of tracking devices.
• Providing training on Smart rack program for our customers.
• Problem solving technical problems of sold devices.
• Scheduling for tracking devices installation & for Manual inspection.
• Supervising the Sorting and Storage of different tracking devices.

Clearing agent at DHL, Bahrain Gateway Department (2012-09 – 2012-12)

Industry based project for university

• Warehouse management of inbound shipments.
• Answering customers' enquiries about the clearing process & the arrival of their shipments.
• Tracking lost shipment and opening trace alerts on GEMA Program.
• Writing a weekly report on all inbound shipments.
• Maintain accurate Tracking information of shipments.
• Dealing with difficult customers and Maintain Long-term client base.
• Issuing airway bills for shipments.
• Update shipments hold reasons on ACA program.
• Issuing Customs Duty Log Sheet.
• Contact customers to bring Certificate of origin to their shipments.
• Doing my industry-based project.

Work Placement for University at DHL, Bahrain (2012-08 – 2012-09)

One week at Bahrain gateway. One week at Road network. One week at Customer Operation and ELC. One week at Air, Operations, Network Control Group, NCG and sort.

• Prepare shipping Manifest.
• Scheduling of road transport.
• Shipment loading process.
• Calculating freight expenses on every shipment.

Bachelor's Degree in Transport & Logistics – Bahrain Polytechnic University (2015-01 – 2015-01)