Waqas Ali
- Designation: Associate Professor
- Department: Management Sciences
- Faculty: FOMS
Brief Profile
| Area(s) of Expertise | Types of Consultancy Services Offered | Industry relevant to expertise | Name of relevant industry | Past industry experience (if any) | Problem Solved (success story), if any | Benefit to Company (PKR/USD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supply Chain, Operations Management, Lean Six Sigma | Lean Six Sigma Methodology | Steel Industry | LSCP Consultants, Rafhan Maize Products Limited, Mughal Iron & Steel Industries Ltd., Masood Textile Mills Limited, ZahidJee Textile Mills Limited, Super Asia | Identify wastages of process and provide best alternate solution to increase production efficiency by reducing wastage | Save Rs. 40 Million / year. | |
| Supply Chain, Operations Management, Lean Six Sigma | Lean Six Sigma Methodology | Food & Industrial Starch Industry | Identifying the root cause analysis, Why Why analysis, Data Gathering techniques, Fish bone, SIPOC diagram, Statistical analysis by DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control phases) of Lean Six Sigma and improve 1st pass of Finished Goods | Improve 1st pass of Finished Goods from 34% to 88% Approximately. | ||
| Supply Chain, Operations Management, Lean Six Sigma | Energy Conservation | Steel Industry | Evaluating consumption of electricity, especially in lights, suggest alternate and convert current practices into new ideas. Save energy at different production plants, Offices and Warehouses with alternate supplies | Save Rs. 47 Million/Year and help to reduce carbon foot print. | ||
| Supply Chain | Optimization of Supply Chain Cost by Reducing Investment & Carrying cost | By reviewing slow moving & dead items, reduce financial burden of Inventories and saving interest, taxes, insurance paid on inventory and reduce warehouse space, time & personals as well. | Reduce financial burden 19% of Inventories | |||
| Supply Chain | Optimization of Supply Chain Cost by Reducing Investment & Carrying cost | To avoid excess inventory and save all related costs (storage, carrying, handling cost etc.) by less use of company’s capital, developed and implemented Semi VMI (Vendor managed inventory) and procurement planning programs to purchase Raw & Packing materials. | Efficient use of capital amounting Rs.343 Million/Month. | |||
| Lean Tools & Techniques | 5 S Implementation in Inventory Stores, Warehouses & Production plants | Trained the staff and achieve the goals in just 5 months of 5S Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardized & Sustain. | Save 53% of space and enable team to find record/material within 30 seconds. Enhance productivity of employees by 21% after changing layouts, receiving, storing and issuance procedures. | |||
| Lean Tools & Techniques | Implementation of Overall equipment efficiency model (OEE) | Implementation of OEE on different production lines to analyze efficiency and save time of preventive and corrective maintenance. | Improve OEE from 73% to 92%. | |||
| Supply Chain | Lean Supply Chain by Reducing Lead time of Procurement Process | Analyzed 14 months of procurement data using Minitab to define value-added and non-value-added activities, reducing lead time. | Reduced lead time from 45 to 15 days, improved inventory turnover, and working capital. | |||
| Supply Chain | Improving Sales forecast accuracy & Production planning | Adoption of robust S&OP methodologies and improved production planning accuracy. | Sales forecast accuracy improved from 74% to 91%; production planning from 78% to 93%. | |||
| Lean Methodology | Implementation of 5S | Material sorting, set in order, shine, standardize, and sustain storage processes. | Saved 43% space. | |||
| Trainings | ||||||
| Lean Six Sigma | Introduction to Lean | Participants from Different Industries | ||||
| Lean Six Sigma & Supply Chain | Achieving Excellence by Lean Six Sigma | FF Steel Peshawar | ||||
| Lean Methodology | Lean 8 Wastages & 5S | AIIA – NTU | ||||
| 5S Mastery | Participants from Different Industries | |||||
| Supply Chain | Inventory & Warehouse Management with 5S | Shahzad Textile | ||||
| Supply Chain | Inventory & Warehouse Management with 5S | AIIA – NTU | ||||
| Lean & Supply Chain | Lean Inventory & Warehouse Management | Participants from Different Industries | ||||
| Lean Methodology | Lean 8 Wastages & 5S | AIIA – NTU | ||||
| Lean Six Sigma & Supply Chain | Operational Excellence in Operations & Supply Chain | Super Asia | ||||
| Lean Six Sigma & Supply Chain | Lean Six Sigma Mastery: Transforming Operations & Supply Chain for Excellence | Ghani Glass Limited |
Areas of Expertise