Food & Nutrition

Biography

• Akram Kawaf is currently associated with AmoHamza Seafood Restaurants • High caliber business professional with 20+ years of rich hands on leadership experience in supply chain management involving procurement, warehousing, demand planning, capacity planning, production planning, logistics & distribution - in diverse industries – poultry, fast food, dairy products, and food manufacturing. • Strong experience in food storage and distribution for both dry and temperature controlled supply chains (cold, child, and frozen). • Experience in managing ERP systems implementation projects. • Adept in developing, implementing, ensuring compliance with and updating all required supply chain operation strategies, processes, policies, procedures, internal controls and systems. • Skilled in establishing key performance indicators for supply chain activities and monitoring & supporting achievement of metrics. • Expertise in adopting modern concepts in supplier relation management (SRM), internal customer relation management (CRM) to build strong partnerships based on integrity, trust and fair dealings. • Skilled in improving supply chain performance by adopting tools like RFID technology, consignment stocks/vendor managed inventories and 3PL systems. • Experienced in sourcing a wide range of items - machinery & equipment, packaging materials, spare parts, general consumables, fuels, grains, green forage, feed commodities & feed ingredients - and services from reputable vendors in Saudi Arabia, UAE, USA, Spain, Greece, Holland, Australia, Argentina & Malaysia. • Deft in coordinating with internal & external stakeholders and leading, motivating & monitoring multinational teams eliciting superior performances. • Proactive, achievement driven strategist with excellent communication, coordination, problem solving, decision making, planning & execution skills.

Research Interest

Supply Chain & Logistics