Education
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University of Wolverhampton, UK 2016 - 2018
Master of Business Administration
Strategic Management, Leading Transformation & change, Operations, Accounting & Financial, Human Resources, and Marketing Management. Merit (P/M)
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University of Colombo, Sri Lanka 2014 - 2017
Diploma in Transportation & Logistics Management
International trade, Logistics Management, Procurement, Inventory, Management Science, Principals & Elements of Transportation, Business Statistics, IT and Communication Skills, Business Management, and Service marketing. GPA Value Obtained 3.33
Experience
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Scan Distribution Centre Lanka (Pvt) Ltd 2021 - Present
General Manager - Supply Chain & Business Development
• Responsible for decision-making as an Operational head for the Logistics Operations, Inventory Management, Demand planning, and forecasting • Overlooking all the transactions of Bonded and Non-Bonded warehouses • Actively involved with Recruiting, Induction, Training & Development, and evaluating employees. • Setting up the benchmarks for Cost and Productivity for each Warehouse and analyzing and identifying the deviations and improvement requirements. • Coordinating with Finance team and allocate annual budgets for each Warehouse and helping teams to manage within the budget while reduce the costs and increase profits. • Collaborating with marketing, Operations, and Finance to create competitive concept proposals. • Initiating and handling all contracts with third-party suppliers, service providers by comparing with market rates and score cards • Develop many value-added products and services offerings based on a detailed analysis of the market behavior and customer needs. • Providing market intelligence and feedback to local, regional, and global teams on the market, industry, competitors’ developments, and economic landscape of the country. • Building and maintaining relationships with key contacts at potential clients, consulting companies, partners, and government bodies to get access to new opportunities. • Involving the marketing team to manage all digital marketing platforms and implement all omni-channel communications.
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Scan Distribution Centre Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. Scanwell Haulage (Pvt) Ltd. 2016 - 2021
Manager 3PL operations and Transportation
• Managed all Logistical Activities and Customs Brokerage operations including 300,000 SQFT of warehouses. • Coordinated with agent network, Shipping & Air Lines, NVOCC and slot operators to secure best rates for inward and outward freight movements including Ex-works & Door deliveries. • Managed vehicle fleet of more than 30 heavy vehicles, workshops, 80+ personals under transport division. Operated as a separate SBU and were able to increase the profit by 12% for each year. • Generate various reports by daily, weekly, and monthly and monitor all movements and performance of each team in Freight, Warehousing and Transport divisions and help them to achieve their individual and cooperate KPIs. • Liaise with each Stakeholders and keep all of them updated on regular basis. • Create new SOPs For new customers, Allocate KPIs to various departments and revisit same on a regular basis. • Conduct different compliance and warehouse audits timely manner and take all corrective measures. • Closely monitored all the cost headings and managed withing the given annual budgets and achieved the profit targets and planned expansions.
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Scanwell Logistics / Scan Distribution Centre 2012 - 2016
Warehouse & Operations Manager
• Managed and coordinated customs brokerage operations for FCL, LCL and Airfreight shipments for 20+ FMCG customers. • Overlooked activities for Bonded and Non-Bonded warehouses in Peliyagoda for multiple clients. Average 25FCLs, 14LCLs, and 20AirFreights • Managed CFS operations for the Bond cargo for Both import & Export operations. • Controlled and Monitor Bank Guarantee utilizations for the Bond operations. • Liaise with Sri Lanka Customs, BOI, Import Control, SLSI, and port authority for various requirements during the operations. • Held project Manager position in the Digitalization team of the company appointed to convert various operational activities to a single ERP system. • Handled Induction and training for the new employees and maintain employee retention on higher level.
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Scan Distribution Centre Lanka (Pvt) Ltd 2007 - 2012
Warehouse Manager
• Managed all Receiving’s, GRNs, Throughputs, Line picking and loading operations in the 3PL warehouses. • Coordinated with SL Customs. • Corresponded with local and foreign customers. • Handled Consolidation operations. • Managed export operation of Target Cooperation’s South Asia Hub for hangers. • Managed IT operation. • Sourced of suppliers (transporters / labour / storage units /etc...) • Make sure followed SOP for new customers and projects. • Archived KPI.
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Scan Distribution Centre Lanka (Pvt) Ltd 2001 - 2007
Warehouse Executive
• Experienced in Line & Wave picking. • Handled permanent & outsourced employees. • Maintained manual stock movement through stock ledgers. • Created BIN cards and updated same. • Planning of deliveries and loading time slots. • Generated daily activity reports and shared with warehouse manager. • Supervised loading & unloading operations.