RAJAN DALPAT NAKAR
4th Parklands Ave
Summary
A manager with over 15yrs of experience in logistics, warehouse, inventory control, fleet control, dispatch and distribution operations. Consistently driving efficiency and cost-effectiveness through planning and effective resource management. Known for teamwork, adapting to dynamic environments and delivering reliable results. Skilled in utilizing logistics software, inventory arrangement, optimizing transportation routes and maintaining compliance with company regulations.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Logistics Manager
Supplies & Services Ltd
12.2022 - Current
- In charge of the Transport and Logistics department
- In charge of the Raw Material Warehouse & Inventory
- In charge of the warehouse staff reporting on duties
- In charge of recruiting warehouse personnel
- In charge of recruiting drivers and turn boys
- In charge of the company Fuel station e.g. Diesel & Petrol
- In charge of the company fleet i.e. Lorries, prime movers, pool cars.
- Overseeing the Cold Chain Logistics with our refrigerator trucks
- Ensuring timely servicing is carried for the Thermoking Refrigerator
- Overseeing the verification process of receiving & dispatching of store goods/materials
- Monitoring the daily fuel usage by all the vehicles & trucks
- Monitoring the daily opening & closing of the fuel pump meter readings
- Verifying the quality & density of Petrol & Diesel received
- Checking for traces of water or other mixtures in the fuel supplied
- Monitoring the distances and averages of all trucks & trailers
- Ensuring all vehicle tanks are fully filled after returning from their specific routes
- Monitoring the daily fuel stocks & ensuring all underground fuel tanks are always replenished with Diesel and Petrol from time-to-time
- Monitoring movement of all trucks & trailers though the GPS Tracking System
- Ensuring daily route planning is carried out for customer deliveries
- Creating Purchase Requisitions (PR) of various parts & materials required for internal workshop and warehouse usage
- Applying for Road Permits on the KeNHA Online Portal for movement of heavy machinery on the national highways e.g. Graders, Bulldozers and Tractors etc.
- Ensuring the permits are approved and issued so as to carry out the Transit of the heavy machinery
- Ensuring timely re-newals are carried out for all Insurance, NTSA Annual Inspections, Speed Governors & GPS Tracking Devices
- Generating daily Logistics reports of all the trucks on transit with locations
- Generating weekly supplier reports of all goods received from various suppliers
- Generating monthly Fuel reports of all the cars, lorries & trailers fuel usage
- Performing all other duties assigned to me from the office of the Directors
Warehouse Team Leader
Tile & Carpet Ltd
10.2017 - 10.2022
- In charge of the Warehouse Team
- In charge of the Dispatch Team
- In charge of the Fork-Lift operators
- Overseeing the process of dispatch & distribution of goods & material
- Ensuring accurate dispatch done within given time frames by the management
- In charge of verifying all breakages/ damages for replacements
- Authorizing all customer invoices for dispatch
- Ensuring all products are arranged as per bin-numbers, category and sizes
- Overseeing the documentation of the stores to ensure all documents are given out correctly with all location details and customer details
- Creating daily delivery trips on the company D-Note logistics application
- In charge of verifying all products, codes, color, category and quantity as per the product picking document
- Servicing stores picking lists from customers & ensuring goods are prepared within the given time frames
- Ensuring small accessories and all other loose material is packed in cartons, taped and strapped efficiently to avoid damages or loss of goods while in transit
- Verifying the tonnage of goods for dispatch to our internal branch orders and all upcountry branch orders
- Route Planning of the deliveries for all local customer deliveries on daily basis
- Liaising with the outsourced Transporters for confirmation of the trucks required for upcountry deliveries
- Authorizing the monthly over-time pay for the warehouse staff
- In-charge of submitting the attendance & overtime reports to the HR department for payroll processing
- A member of the company Employee Satisfaction Team (ESAT)
- A member of the company Process Satisfaction Team (PSAT)
- In charge of Auditing ESAT benefits and creating activities for employees
- In charge of Auditing PSAT SOP’s and creating new SOP’s as required
- Performing all other duties assigned to me from the office of the Directors
Logistics Manager
Kenblest Group Ltd
05.2016 - 09.2017
- In charge of the Warehouse Team
- In charge of the Transport and Logistics department
- In charge of the drivers and van men reporting to duties
- Ensuring all drivers and vanmen attendances are monitored on daily basis
- Planning the bread dispatch for Nairobi routes and all other upcountry regions
- Creating the daily bread loading instructions on daily basis for the 70 routes
- Preparing & verifying all loading instructions with the loading team as per route
- Ensuring all bread has the sufficient expiry dates & verifying the quality of the bread to be dispatched
- Ensuring all bread dispatch vehicles have the Business Permits for smooth sales & distribution of bread for various counties
- Ensuring all bread trucks have the Branding Licenses for various counties
- Ensuring all bread trucks have the Seasonal Parking for Nairobi county
- Accurate planning for leaves/ permissions being taken by the drivers or vanmen
- Generating the monthly master route-roster for all drivers and vanmen going on routes and indicating their specific vehicles and off-days
- Ensuring timely vehicle servicing, repairs, insurance, speed governor certificates and vehicle inspections.
- Managing routine maintenance and repairs of all staff & director’s vehicles
- Ensuring all repair, panel beating and re-painting of vehicles are done promptly in given time frames
- Liaising with the workshop for vehicle break-downs and giving prompt break-down rescue
- Creating in-house job cards for required spares for vehicle maintenance
- Verifying all job cards after completion on work and generating the reports for all repairs done and costs incurred during repairs
- Verifying old spare parts and having them replaced with new ones
- Generating all documents and payments of Annual Inspections through the NTSA web portal for all vehicles
- Booking all vehicles for Inspections before the time of expiry dates
- Ensuring re-newals of speed governors in all vehicles
- Ensuring renewals are done for all Nairobi CBD route vehicles for monthly seasonal parking
- Controlling all hired vehicles for bread sales and looking into the hire charges and other expenses incurring for marketing purposes
- Generating all drivers and vanmen lunch allowances on daily basis while on route
- Ensuring all vehicles enter and leave the premises strictly on the given timelines
- Authorizing & verifying all drivers gate passes before they leave the premises
- In charge of re-shuffling of drivers and vanmen quarterly for route sales improvement
- In charge of recruiting new drivers for yard and spare purposes in case of breakdowns or driver absence
- Controlling all the vehicles though GPS Tracking Systems
- Ensuring the vehicle tracking devices are serviced on monthly basis for accurate tracking reports
- Generating fuel siphon reports and charging the necessary drivers for the diesel siphoned on route
- Generating the daily diesel reports and calculating their respective mileages & respective averages
- In charge of the staff reporting to the fuel station
- In charge of verifying the opening & closing of the fuel pump readings
- Monitoring the daily fuel usage by all the vehicles at the fuel station
- Verifying the quality of Petrol/ Diesel and checking for traces of water or other mixtures in the fuel that is supplied to the company
- Ensuring all trucks & vehicle tanks are fully filled after returning from their specific daily routes
- Ensuring all the underground fuel tanks are always replenished every week with Diesel and Petrol
- Attending to Traffic Police Officers and sorting out traffic issues for vehicle arrests and road accidents
- Ensuring all the police abstracts are recorded in the company register for all road accidents and incidents
- Ensuring all vehicles checked for all accessories before leaving the premises e.g. jack, wheel spanners, spare wheels etc.
- Ensuring all vehicle are checked in the workshop daily after coming back from routes to check for broken springs, damaged parts and repairs required
- Creating required purchase orders for necessary spares
- Ensuring the purchase orders are verified and approved by the directors
- Ensuring all drivers have the protective gears while on route e.g. raincoats, overalls, safety boots etc
- Ensuring the security personnel staff takes down all details of bread vehicles entering and leaving the premises
- Ensuring all flour vehicles are accurately dispatched and tracked while on route
- Ensuring all vehicles undergo the car wash for thorough cleaning of all vehicles
- Ensuring all vehicle fiber bodies are in order to avoid any leakages during rainfall
- Verifying all Weighbridge reports on daily basis for all flour vehicles
- Performing all other duties assigned to me from the office of the Directors
Warehouse Manager
Jambo Biscuits (K) Ltd
04.2014 - 04.2016
- In charge of the Warehouse Team
- In charge of van-sales covering Nairobi area and up-country
- Planning accurate dispatch for Nairobi customers and all other Kenyan regions
- Planning accurate dispatch of Van-sales and generating Van-sales reports
- In charge of all market returns and issuing SRNs for processing credit notes
- In charge of all raw materials receiving from suppliers and issuing GRNs
- In charge of all factory-to-warehouse goods transfer and issuing TDNs
- Ensuring all stock bin-cards are updated on daily basis and reconciling with the stock systems to ensure accurate movement stock
- In charge of the daily petty cash expenses and other miscellaneous expenses
- Verifying the weekly Mombasa branch petty cash expenses
- Reconciliation of all Cash and Cheque payment transactions from customers
- Authorizing invoices and gate pass for invoiced goods and cash customers
- Authorizing all Mombasa branch invoices and customer receipts
- Generating product requests to the Factory to be manufactured as per sales orders requirements
- Generating stocks replenishing list for Mombasa Depot on weekly basis
- Liaising with on-shore staff in Mombasa for daily goods deliveries for coast region
- Managing the Transport Fleet for Nairobi and Mombasa branch
- Managing GPS vehicle tracking systems and locating all company vehicles on field
- Preparing fuel reports and mileages covered by the delivery fleets and pool vehicles
- Managing the in-house Workshop and Mechanics reporting to their duties
- Managing the Mombasa branch vehicles repairs and logistics
- Ensuring timely vehicle servicing, repairs, insurance, speed governor certificates and vehicle inspections.
- Ensuring all dispatch vehicles have necessary County Permits for smooth distribution of our goods and services
- Negotiating transport rates with outsourced transporters
- Generating new suppliers for all vehicle spares and parts
- Booking all staff vehicles for timely maintenance and repairs required
- Creating LPO’s for required spares for vehicle repairs and maintenance
- Performing all other duties directly assigned from the office of the Directors
Depot Manager
Jambo Biscuits (K) Ltd
10.2012 - 03.2014
- Managing the company depot in Mombasa
- In charge of the Warehouse Team
- In charge of the Warehouse and stocks and sending weekly stock request to HQ
- In charge of verifying daily petty cash & expenses
- In charge of verifying market returns and issuing SRNs credit notes
- In charge of all goods received from supplier and issuing GRNs
- In charge of maintaining weekly adequate stocks for all regional dispatches
- Creating new weekly stock requests to the Nairobi HQ
- In charge of the Vansales covering Coast Region
- Planning accurate dispatch of Van-sales and generating Van-sales reports
- Creating Merchandisers route reports with trip expense for travelling purposes
- Ensuring all merchandisers submit their market reports as per daily routes
- Liaising with Area Sales Manager for all supermarket LPO’s and other orders
- Ensuring a random visit to the supermarkets to check movement of the products
- Calculation of allowances for sales reps and merchandiser’s trips to other regions e.g. Mtwapa, Malindi, Kilifi, Watamu, Voi, Diani etc.
- In charge of the banking and other financial processes
- In charge of the Water billing and Electric billing to ensure timely payments
- In charge of vehicle insurances and carrying out required vehicle inspections
- Heading the recruitment for all Mombasa staff personnel
- In charge of purchases of items and spares required
- In charge of daily customer Cash reconciliation and Cheque transactions
- Creating vehicle fuel LPO’s for staff vehicles and delivery vans
- Verifying and submitting all salesmen dashboard reports & merchandiser reports to the HQ
- Generating workers weekly wages & submitting the vouchers for payments
- Attending to Government officials for Trade Licences re-newals and Staff Health Certificate re-newals
- Attending to the Security personnel for security alarms and security issues
- Attending to Traffic Police Officers and sorting traffic offenses for our vehicles
- Ensuring all Health & Safety equipment are in working condition at all times
- Ensuring all Fire Fighting Equipment are in working condition for fire break-outs
- Performing all other Logistic issues for faster working environment
- Performing all other duties directly assigned from the office of the Directors
Transport Manager
Butali Sugar Mills
01.2009 - 07.2012
- Managing the Transport Department with a Fleet of 200 tractor units and 12 Winch units
- Managing the pool vehicles used for sales work and all other Admin duties
- Monitoring the Fleet Movement through the Vehicle Tracking Systems and making sure they cover the areas of jurisdiction
- Making comprehensive reports on Fuel Consumption, Kilometers, Speed Control and Geo-Fence Boundaries
- Follow-up on all Cane Haulage Tractors and Winches for accurate Cane lifting from the farmers
- Ensuring all company fleet and pool vehicles leave Main Gates with authorised Gate-Passes
- Providing a 24-Hour stand-by backup service, both, day and night for any casualties within the Factory
- Providing 24-Hour break-down service for all tractor fleet transporting cane to the factory
- Working closely with the Kabras Regional OCPD, OCS, Base Commander and other Traffic Officers for accidents and incidents that occur on the National Highway due to tractors on cane haulage
- Ensuring all Winches divide their routes as per respective zones to give recovery backup to tractor break-downs in that specific zone
- In charge of vehicle insurances and carrying out required vehicle inspections
- Making sure all tractors bring in the desired Tonnage of cane per trip
- Conducting weekly meetings with Transport staff for cane haulage issues
- Heading the entire Security Force within the Factory
- Overseeing all day-shift and night-shift force for patrolling and security measures
- Overseeing all security personnel manning factory main gates and staff estates
- Overseeing all Trucks, Tankers, Trailers, and other commercial vehicles entering and leaving the premises
- Overseeing all Administration Vehicles, Pool cars, Workshop vehicles, Customer vehicles entering and leaving the premises
- Ensuring all visitor passes are signed & verified for any individual entering or leaving the premises
- Ensuring vehicle frisking and pedestrian frisking is thoroughly done at all times for all entering or leaving the premises
- Overseeing all CCTV surveillance cameras and obtaining daily footage for all activities taking place within the company premises
- Generating daily reports on all footages taken for any suspicious movement within the premises
- Generating daily reports on all patrolling taking place for the security force to ensure safety within premises
- Conducting weekly meetings with the Chief Security for all security related issues
- Overseeing the company attendance systems & generating daily reports
- Initiating new proposals for the Director and General Manager on further security measures that need to be enforced within the factory
- Managing the Vendors for supply of quality manpower and selecting efficient workers for the factory
- Managing the Vendors i.e., Cypriano Agency, Ready Contractors and Mulanek
- Overseeing all contracted workers in the factory manned by Ready Contractor
- Overseeing all contracted cleaners in the factory manned by Mulanek Enterprises
- Overseeing all contracted workers in the factory for Bagasse, Sugar Bagging and Sugar Loading manned by Cypriano Agency
- Generating daily reports on contracted workers attendance and duties allocated
- Overseeing the IT Department for giving support to all users on the network
- Giving Technical assistance for network break-down and systems glitch
- Ensuring efficient maintenance is carried out on all machines used by users in the entire factory
- Elected as Chairman for the Fire Fighting Committee in the factory
- Managing the fire-fighting department and fire personnel for handling fire breakouts within the premise
- Ensuring all fire-fighting equipment are re-filled and in working condition at all times
- Ensuring all fire gadgets and warning sign boards are in place
- Conducting Fire Drills bi-weekly for training of the staff
- Conducting weekly meetings with the Fire Fighting Committee to bring new ways of taken precaution measures within the factory
- Elected Chairman for the Health & Safety Committee
- Overseeing the Health & Safety department and Fist-Aid personnel for any incident or casualties within the premise
- Ensuring all Health & Safety equipment are in working condition at all times
- Ensuring all First-Aid Boxes and reflective sign boards are in place
- Attending to any factory casualties and rushing the patients to hospitals for immediate medical attention
- Ensuring all workers have their PPE’s on their bodies at all times
- Conducting Health & Safety Drills bi-weekly for training the staff on First Aid
- Conducting weekly conferences with the Fire Fighting Committee to bring new ways of taken precaution measures within the factory
- Conducting weekly conferences with the Health Safety Committee to bring new ways of taken precaution measures within the factory
- Performing all other Logistics and Transport related issues for efficiency
- Performing all other duties directly assigned from the office of the Directors
Education
KCPE -
Xavier’s Primary School
Nakuru12-1998
High School Diploma -
Oshwal Academy (SLNA)
Nakuru05-2002
Computer Science -
Nakuru Computers & Training Centre
Nakuru12-2002
ABE -
Oshwal College
Nairobi12-2006
Computer Science -
Jetking Infotrain
Mumbai12-2009
Skills
- Warehouse Management
- Depot Management
- Inventory Control
- Logistics Management
- Transport Management
- Cold Chain Logistics
- Fleet Management
- Fuel Management
- GPS Tracking
- Dispatch & Distribution
- Route Planning
- KeNHA & NTSA
LINGUISTIC SKILLS
English
Swahili
Hindi
Gujarati
Hobbies and Interests
Cooking, Cycling, Socializing, Watching Movies, Travel & Adventure, Research & Development
Affiliations
- Undergone Training for Safety & Health Procedures
- Undergone Training for Fire Fighting Procedures
Cooking, Socialising, Adventure
- Cooking
- Socializing
- Adventure
Timeline
Logistics Manager
Supplies & Services Ltd
12.2022 - Current
Warehouse Team Leader
Tile & Carpet Ltd
10.2017 - 10.2022
Logistics Manager
Kenblest Group Ltd
05.2016 - 09.2017
Warehouse Manager
Jambo Biscuits (K) Ltd
04.2014 - 04.2016
Depot Manager
Jambo Biscuits (K) Ltd
10.2012 - 03.2014
Transport Manager
Butali Sugar Mills
01.2009 - 07.2012
KCPE -
Xavier’s Primary School
High School Diploma -
Oshwal Academy (SLNA)
Computer Science -
Nakuru Computers & Training Centre
ABE -
Oshwal College
Computer Science -
Jetking Infotrain
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