01 / MATERIALS PLANNING
Shortage Monitor
A production shortage system that combines stock, day-by-day requirements and inbound material to separate today’s emergencies from next week’s planning risks.
Production Planner · Automotive Manufacturing
PLAN.
CONTROL.
IMPROVE.
I turn demand, material availability and manufacturing constraints into executable production plans — then build the tools that make the decisions clearer.
Syed Ahmad KamalProduction Planner
Selected work
Evidence, not buzzwords.
A CV-sized overview on the homepage, with deeper project pages when a recruiter wants to inspect the logic, screenshots and outcomes.
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02 / FORECASTING
BYD Sales Forecast Portal
A dealer and model planning portal translating annual targets into model-level plans, then tracking actuals against the plan and producing dealer reporting.
03 / PRODUCTION OPTIMISATION
Scania Assembly-Line Research
Exact optimisation and discrete-event simulation of a multi-manned truck assembly line, separating the mathematical capacity floor from the operating point that performs under variability.
04 / PRODUCTION PLANNING
Export Plan Optimisation
Rebuilt a manual export-planning workflow around one structured input, producing lot, production, packing and dispatch views while reducing preparation from roughly six hours to about one.
One input → four operational views
Demand
→ Lots
→ Packing
→ Dispatch
Atlas Honda · Production Planning & Control
Built on the shop floor, not just in spreadsheets.
Progressed from Management Trainee to Assistant Manager PPC in six months. Planned production and material supply, maintained SAP PP master data, managed forward shortage visibility and coordinated recovery when material constraints threatened the schedule.
4,650/daybuild programme supported
~1,100active material lines monitored
6production departments as SAP PP super user
4staff under functional supervision
Experience
Career timeline.
Manufacturing planning first, supported by UK operational experience and a long-running stream of data and automation projects.
2024—2025
Assistant Manager PPC
Atlas Honda Limited
Production planning, materials control, shortage recovery, SAP PP ownership, inventory policy and capacity planning.
2023—2024
Management Trainee PPC
Atlas Honda Limited
Automated shortage reporting and export planning; promoted within six months.
2020—2025
Data Reporting & Automation Consultant
Freelance
Excel/VBA planning models, dashboards, data-cleaning tools and operational reporting for client work.
2025—Present
Online Fulfilment / General Assistant
Sainsbury’s · UK
High-volume fulfilment, live stock availability and operational execution in a UK retail environment.
Skills & systems
Planning stack.
Production planning and materials control first; analytics and automation used where they improve decision quality and execution.
SAP PPSAP MMMRPBOMsRoutingsProduction VersionsExcelVBAPower QueryPower BIForecastingInventory AnalysisCP-SATSimPy
Certifications
Training & credentials.
Click-through structure ready for credential links or certificate PDFs when you want to add them.
Coursera
Credential page →Foundations of Project Management
Coursera
Credential page →Excel Fundamentals for Data Analysis
LinkedIn Learning
Credential page →Power BI Desktop
Udemy
Credential page →SolidWorks
Note: the CV bank I checked does not identify the exact title of the law certification yet, so I have not fabricated it. Add the exact title/link and it can be included here.
Education
Engineering + management.
MSc Engineering Management at Nottingham Trent University, with industrial assembly-line optimisation research at Scania; BSc Mechanical Engineering from NUST.
MSC ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
Nottingham Trent University
Completed September 2026. Course Representative. Industrial research combined constraint programming with discrete-event simulation on a Scania truck assembly-line problem.
Contact
LET’S TALK
PLANNING.
Open to Production Planner, Materials Planner, Production Controller and closely related manufacturing-planning opportunities in the UK.