Insider profil
Top Insider Advice
To be passionate and keen to learn anything new for a new joiner may not be difficult, however, it's not easy to keep it in the mind in each area and industries. To be open minded so that you can learn from everywhere and anyone, they could be your clients, your suppliers, customers and the colleagues in multiple groups and functions as the supply chain industry is the end to end from upstream to down streams with the many interactive spots and links.
Career path
Senior Supply Chain Annalyst
Kingfisher Plc
Started 01/2012 to PresentCompany
What do you like about your job and the company?
As the bridge to link with the upstream and downstream of supply chain, I feel proud of the importance. I can get the demands and requirements from the clients, and this could help me understand the market needs and customer needs and meanwhile, it will drive the production and lead the preference of manufactures. I can work with suppliers to provide the best offer for customers with good quality and proper prices and try to reduce the whole end to end costs to save the working capital and reduce the costs as possible as I can
Greatest achievements
As Far East vendors have much long end to end lead time, including ordering materials, production arrangement, shipping on sea freight and operations in UK ports (sometimes strikes and the congestions will worsen the efficiency), SH office implemented a pilot with 2 vendors, with the system tools management ,finance support, all the functions and departments were oriented by the SC team to make it happen that the production L/T was successfully reduced from 60-70 days to 20 days , which save the large amount of working capitals for the clients in UK and France .
Devrim G
sourcing quality engineer
Top Insider Advice
quality is important, to provide good quality product meaning is not to block production, it means cooperation across the production quality and sourcing teams
Kate F
Design Research Manager
Top Insider Advice
I came from a heavy scientific background, making unnatural amino acids in the lab (which are all white crystals!) to a world of colour and possibility in food development, and felt really out of my depth. The change to industry was challenging, there were targets and KPIs and OKRs and all the other acronyms! And so many people to work with, challenge, influence... I then went to a retail environment where I felt out of my depth again initially, the pace was faster, there was less thinking time and quant evidence was king. I learned more about myself and decided after a few years to challenge myself again and go to the digital world. I've had a constant thread - understanding customers, employees, users - though the context and environment has shifted every time. And that's a good thing! Don't be afraid to jump at an opportunity, you will always learn something and it will benefit you.
