Experience

Where I’ve worked

Automotive production planning first, supported by current UK work experience and five years of freelance data and automation work.

Motorcycle assembly line at Atlas Honda
Atlas Honda, SheikhupuraProduction Planning & Control in a high-volume motorcycle plant: two frame lines, ~19.8-second cycle time, 4,650-unit-a-day build programme.
  1. Oct 2025 — Present

    General Assistant · Online fulfilment (part-time)

    Sainsbury’s · Worcester, UK

    Time-sensitive online order fulfilment in a large UK retailer, where productivity, accuracy, availability and customer service are closely linked. Part-time alongside a full-time MSc.

    • Order picking and stock handling across ambient, chilled and frozen, to UK food safety and health & safety standards
    • Full shift cover maintained for a year while completing the MSc
  2. Jun 2024 — Sep 2025

    Assistant Manager, Production Planning & Control

    Atlas Honda · Pakistan’s largest motorcycle manufacturer (1.4M+ units a year)

    Production planning, materials coordination, SAP PP, export planning and operational improvement on two frame production lines running a ~19.8-second cycle time, supporting a 4,650-unit-a-day build programme. Functional supervision of four PPC staff.

    • Production planning: converted sales requirements into daily and monthly schedules, balancing model mix, colour sequencing, line capacity, working days, planned shutdowns, overtime and lot sizes (typically ~200 units, with larger minimums for some models).
    • Materials & shortages: seven-day forward shortage visibility across ~1,100 actively monitored parts, on models carrying 1,300+ BOM components; expedited gaps with Supply Chain, Stores and the Karachi plant.
    • SAP PP super user for six departments: production orders, BOMs, routings, production versions, material master, planned order conversion, MD04 and missing-parts checks, and monthly production closing.
    • SAP S/4HANA preparation: helped prepare and review production-planning master data (BOMs, routings, work centres, production versions and planning parameters) for the move from SAP ECC.
    • Inventory policy: safety stock review across 3,000+ components that identified ~PKR 50M of inventory that could be released.
    • Export packing: contributed to an SAP framework for CKD/SKD export packing (2 packing variants, 7 models), lifting packing capacity from ~450 to ~540 units a day.
  3. Dec 2023 — May 2024

    Management Trainee Officer, PPC

    Atlas Honda · Graduate management trainee scheme

    Rotated through Production, Supply Chain and Inventory Control and learned SAP PP end to end. Promoted to Assistant Manager after about six months, ahead of the scheme’s normal progression.

    • Automated multi-source shortage reporting: ~60 minutes to 5–10 minutes per run, removing 10+ hours of manual work a week.
    • Rebuilt the export planning workbook around one structured input with automated lot and invoice allocation: preparation fell from 6–7 hours to about 1.
  4. 2020 — 2025

    Freelance Data & Automation Specialist

    Fiverr and direct clients · Remote

    Delivered alongside university and full-time employment. More than 200 international clients, from small spreadsheet improvements to operational systems with hundreds of lines of VBA, admin controls and custom interfaces.

    • Automotive sales management system for a distributor in Ireland: ~20 dealerships, 10–15 models, 500+ lines of VBA.
    • Power Query pipelines, including a ~500 MB file beyond Excel’s worksheet limits; freight rate matrices; a mobile Google Sheets inventory system.
    • Excel, VBA, Power Query, Google Sheets, Apps Script, dashboards, data cleaning and business-process automation.
  5. Aug 2022

    Mechanical Intern

    Zorlu Energy Group · Jhampir wind farm

    One month on site at a 56 MW wind farm, studying 1.8 MW turbine nacelle systems, pitch control and site maintenance planning.

  6. Aug — Sep 2021

    Mechanical Engineering Intern

    Sitara Chemical Industries · Faisalabad

    Central workshop placement covering overhaul of centrifugal pumps, compressors and heat exchangers, and preventive maintenance in a 24/7 chemical plant.

Behind the work

The environment the plans were made for

Photos from Atlas Honda, where the planning, shortage and export work on this site took place.

SAP in daily use

SAP on a live production line, not in a classroom

Central MRP runs sat with the planning function; my job was to read the outputs, check component availability and turn them into production decisions. These are the areas of SAP I used to do that.

Production orders

Create, change and review orders, confirm output and monitor status

CO01CO02CO03CO11NCOOIS

BOMs

Review and maintain bills of materials, check where-used and multi-level structures

CS01CS02CS03CS11CS15

Routings & versions

Routings, work centres and production versions behind every planned order

CA01CA02CA03C223

MRP & availability

Read the stock/requirements position and check planned orders before they reach the line

MD04MD05MD41

Stock & movements

Trace goods issues, consumption and stock to explain a variance or a shortage

MB51MB52MIGO

Material master

Check and correct the planning data a material carries

MM01MM02MM03
Cross-functional work

Who a production plan has to satisfy

Planning meant resolving competing priorities between sales demand, available materials and manufacturing constraints, every day.

SalesProductionLogisticsMaterials ManagementQuality AssuranceFinanceCommercialITSpare PartsSuppliers
Skills & systems

My planning stack

Grouped by what I use them for. No percentage bars.

Production & Materials Planning

Production planningProduction controlMaterials planningCapacity planningMRPInventory managementShortage managementSchedulingSafety stockExport planning

SAP

SAP PP (hands-on)BOMsRoutingsWork centresProduction versionsPlanned & production ordersConfirmationsProduction closingSAP MM (exposure)

Data & Automation

ExcelAdvanced formulasVBAPower QueryPivotTablesData validationAutomated reporting

Analytics

ForecastingDemand analysisMAPEInventory analysisBusiness-case modellingPower BI (developing)

Other tools

Google SheetsApps Scriptn8nPython fundamentalsMATLABSolidWorksANSYSArduino
Certifications & continuous learning

Training & credentials

Learning Power BI Desktop certificate
LinkedIn Learning · Dec 2025Learning Power BI Desktop
Data analysisPower BI
CertificateExcel Fundamentals for Data AnalysisMacquarie University · Coursera
Macquarie University · Coursera · Jul 2023Excel Fundamentals for Data Analysis
ExcelData
Foundations of Project Management certificate
Google · Coursera · Jul 2023Foundations of Project Management
Project managementOperations
SOLIDWORKS: Become a Certified Professional (CSWP) certificate
Udemy · Jan 2022SOLIDWORKS: Become a Certified Professional (CSWP)
EngineeringCAD

Planning should turn complexity into action.

Open to Production Planner, Materials Planner, Production Controller and Supply Chain Planning roles in the UK.