Hassan Faraz

Supply Chain & Planning Manager with 10+ years of experience across Pharmaceuticals, Nutraceuticals, FMCG, Cosmetics, Consumer Durables, and Manufacturing industries, specializing in Production Planning, Supply Planning, Procurement, MRP, Inventory Management, Forecasting, and New Product Introduction.

Manager Supply Chain - Global Pharmacuticals Pakistan - Rawat Industrial Area Islamabad

(2026-01)

• Lead end-to-end production planning, forecasting, and material requirement planning (MRP) to ensure uninterrupted operations, optimal inventory levels, and timely material availability.
• Drive production performance by monitoring schedules, resolving bottlenecks, and coordinating with Production, Procurement, Quality, Warehouse, and Engineering teams to achieve operational targets.
• Manage new product launches and supply chain initiatives through sourcing, production readiness, data analysis, and inventory optimization to improve planning accuracy and working capital efficiency.

Manager Supply Planning - Golden Pearl Cosmetics Estate - Kot Lakhpat, Lahore

(2025-01 - 2026-01)

• Responsible for the planning of raw materials and packaging, as well as overseeing production schedules.
• Maintain close coordination with the Demand Planner and General Manager of Supply Chain to effectively manage equipment allocations across manufacturing and filling areas.
• Ensure timely planning of deliveries within the supply chain, optimize inventory strategies to meet service demands, identify inefficiencies, and propose effective solutions.

Assistant Manager Supply Chain & Planning - Nutrifactor Laboratories(Pvt.) Limited - P-130 Kohinoor City, Faisalabad

(2023-07 - 2025-01)

• Production & Materials Requirement Planning.
• Managing the purchase and supply of raw materials, packaging & printing materials.
• Sourcing and suppliers development with price negotiation ensuring best quality and specifications.
• Smooth and efficient execution of Purchase Order to Supply Process.
• Managing the Inventory/Shelf Level of all materials and plan new orders.
• Coordination with Production team for materials management and related issues.
• Research and development of new materials, suppliers and projects.
• Responsible for checking all pre-requisites needed for new machinery before ordering.

Assistant Manager Planning - Pakistan Fruit Juice Company (Pvt.) Limited - 15-16/N, Industrial Area Gulberg II, Lahore

(2022-04 - 2023-07)

• Plan the Ice Cream Business for whole year in terms of Sales, Production, Materials and Dispatch.
• Critically & categorically review the business regularly and make sure the gaps between Forecast and Actual Sales are incorporated in next business cycles of Production and Purchase.
• Minimize stock-outs on regional level by accurately adopting the sales trends.
• Generate rolling forecast on current trends and last year trends, and develop a consensus with Sales Team and achieve 90% forecast efficiency on SKU & Regional Level.
• Run MRP once a month and trigger Purchases to meet Production demand for next 2 months.
• Regularly issue Production Plan on a weekly basis to make sure Zero stock outs and ensure all materials are available at the time of production. Also issue Production Plans on Machine & Equipment Level.
• Maintain reasonably lean inventory for Cost/Space intensive materials.
• Regularly follow-up with Procurement Team for materials, and make sure PO's are delivered in timely manner.

Planning Executive (Production Planning & Materials Control Dept.) - Waves Singer Pakistan (Pvt.) Limited - 9 KM Multan Road, Lahore

(2020-10 - 2022-04)

• Preparing Monthly, Weekly and Daily Production Plan as per Sales Requirement, Materials Availability and Production Capacity.
• Revising the Production Plan as per urgent sales requirements, materials availability issues and capacity problems, to adjust the production backlog.
• Preparing the Daily as well as Monthly Production Gap Report (Planned versus Actual Production), to re-schedule the planned suggesting counter measures to mitigate reasons for the gaps in future.
• Evaluate and coordinate material requirements to ensure a controlled flow of approved materials timed to meet production requirements, i.e., Material Requirements Planning.
• Plan, schedule and monitor material movement to ensure continuous operations, i.e., Consignment Status Report (In-Transit, High Sea, Dry Port and in Bond Shipments Status).
• Control materials issuance from Store to Production Lines, to ensure WIP Inventory on Production Floor as per Production Target.
• Preparing Material Shortage Report and provide immediate resolution and expedite delivery of shortage parts.
• Assist purchasing unit in coordinating and planning supplier deliveries i.e., LC Opening, Local Supplier Contracting.
• Preparing Old Age Materials Report and ensure FIFO.

Production Planning Engineer(Production Planning Dept.) - Haier Pakistan (Pvt.) Limited - 19.5 KM Raiwind Road, Lahore

(2016-12 - 2019-05)

• Preparing Monthly, Weekly & Daily Production Plan as per sales requirements, material availability and production capacity.
• Controlling and revising production plan as per urgent sales requirements, materials availability problems and capacity issues (Making weekly production plan to adjust the remaining days plan, delayed due to production target not achieved in previous days).
• Analyzing daily as well as monthly production gaps(Planned v/s actual gap report) and suggesting action plan to minimize overall gaps using PDCA.
• Working as SAP PP Module key user and acting as a supporting link between SAP system's requirements & production execution team, R&D Team, Quality and Inventory.
• Managing production orders in SAP, troubleshooting and fulfilling SAP's requirements by analyzing & resolving system errors i.e. Stock deficit, BOM mistakes, alternate material usage.
• Materials management as per required production BOM, Kit-wise material shortage and WIP inventory record (Physical as well as SAP system. Performing daily materials requisition to store to maintain Floor Inventory and follow-up the materials availability.

QA/QC Engineer (Quality Assurance Dept.) - Haier Pakistan (Pvt.) Limited - 19.5 KM Raiwind Road, Lahore

(2011-07 - 2013-01)

• Process and Market Quality Improvement.
• Root-Cause Analysis, Effective use of SPC Tools; Cause-Effect Diagram, Stratification, Check Sheets and Control Charts.
• Making & Implementation of Quality Standards.
• Process Control and Improvement, using KAIZEN, 6S concepts.
• Effective use of QC Techniques; Brain storming, why-why approach, 3Mu Elimination approach, 5W1H, 4M1E.
• Reduce Quality Losses.
• Improve Process Quality.
• After Sales.
• Quality System Improvement

MS - Industrial Engineering and Management - University of the Punjab (2015)

B.Sc. - Mechanical Engineering - Bahauddin Zakariya University (2011)

F.Sc. - Pre-Engineering - B.I.S.E. Faisalabad (2006)

Matriculation - B.I.S.E. Faisalabad (2003)