Reda Ameioud
Procurement & BI Manager · Operations & Supply Chain Automation Specialist
Profile
Procurement and Supply Chain professional who builds the automation rather than just using it. Currently managing €3M+ annual procurement spend at NVision Quantum Technologies GmbH while designing and operating a company-wide Operations Hub: 8 production applications in daily use across departments, built solo. Combines hands-on technical delivery (React, Python, Firebase) with genuine procurement depth: built category structures from zero, led multi-supplier negotiations on CAPEX exceeding €300K per unit, and designed governance frameworks that turned reactive buying into auditable, data-driven operations. Fluent in the language of both boardrooms and codebases.
Career Highlights
- Procurement Cost Savings: Delivered €217K in procurement cost savings in 2025 and €108K in the first five months of 2026 through supplier renegotiations, volume bundling, and long-term framework agreements.
- Manage €3M+ annual procurement spend as sole procurement owner across all departments, strategic sourcing, CAPEX negotiations, and supplier governance from scratch.
- Built & deployed 8 production applications forming a company-wide Operations Hub in daily use across Procurement, Finance, Logistics & Manufacturing. Built solo using AI-assisted development.
- Led full Odoo ERP rollout including customer-facing PH2 Calculators App, full webshop for order tracking, invoices & open-ended orders, overseeing both technical deployment and change management.
- Eliminated 400+ hours of annual manual work through custom automation tools. PO creation from 15 min → 3 min, AI invoice logging at 95%+ accuracy, retroactive labelling of 50,000+ archived files.
Professional Experience
NVision Quantum Technologies GmbH
Procurement & Business Intelligence Manager Jan. 2026 – Present
- Sole owner and manager of the entire Procurement function.
- Managing €3M+ annual spend across all departments, leading end-to-end sourcing and price negotiations for CAPEX and technical equipment exceeding €300K per unit.
- Generated €108K in cost savings in the first five months of 2026 through continued supplier renegotiations and category consolidation, on track to exceed 2025 performance.
- Led multi-stakeholder supplier negotiations with global vendors (EU, USA, Asia Pacific), managing CAPEX and long-term supply agreements. Secured cost savings through strategic category consolidation, supplier spend consolidation, and renegotiation of supplier contracts and Framework agreements.
- Designed procurement data architecture for Odoo ERP implementation, including category taxonomy, master data governance, and workflow standardization. Managed category consolidation and supplier renegotiation strategy.
- Established supplier performance scoring system integrating on-time delivery, quality metrics, and cost efficiency to guide strategic sourcing decisions and supplier relationship management.
- Implemented procurement spend analysis dashboards providing near real-time visibility into spending patterns and supplier performance metrics.
- Shifted procurement from reactive buying to strategic category management, transparent approval workflows (through Wrike & Odoo), supplier performance tracking based on live invoice and delivery data.
- Designed and deployed the Operations Hub: 8 production applications (React/Firebase) in daily use across Procurement, Finance, Manufacturing, and Logistics. Built solo using AI-assisted development, eliminating 400+ hours of annual manual work.
- Led full Odoo ERP rollout across the organization, including technical deployment of the customer-facing PH2 Calculators App (product configuration & pricing) and a full webshop enabling customers to track orders, access invoices, and manage open-ended orders. Oversaw workflow standardization and data architecture for procurement categories and cost centers.
- Built executive-facing dashboards (Procurement Analytics, Utility Consumption Metrics) enabling leadership to make data-driven decisions in real time.
Procurement & Sourcing Specialist Feb. 2025 – Dec. 2025
- Built the procurement department from scratch, establishing purchasing rules, approval workflows, supplier governance using Wrike, and foundational data structures for €3M+ annual spend.
- Delivered €217K in procurement cost savings in 2025 through supplier renegotiations, volume bundling, and long-term framework agreements, and secured critical Chemicals & Reagents supply during global shortages.
- Negotiated critical supply agreements for Chemicals & Reagents during global shortage period, ensuring uninterrupted supply and favorable pricing despite market constraints.
- Led complete overhaul of procurement data strategy ahead of ERP implementation: vendor master database, PO archive with standardized naming & searchability, category taxonomy, and supplier performance scoring system.
- Developed the first iteration of the Operations Hub: Location Tracker, PO Automator, Purchase Order Dashboard, Manufacturing Orders, AI-powered OCR processing tools, and Automatic Document renaming & saving system, eliminating 400+ hours of annual manual work.
Merck KGaA
Darmstadt, Germany
Strategic Sourcing Intern, Marketing & Sales Jun. 2024 – Dec. 2024
- Delivered €100K+ in cost reductions across multiple contract negotiations through structured supplier evaluation.
- Built 2 Power BI dashboards consolidating all current and historical Marketing & Sales procurement data enabling real-time spend visibility.
- Developed a Power App and Python-based local application for automated RfP evaluation integrating data entry, scoring, and visualization through SharePoint and Power BI.
Working Student, Substance Volume Tracking Jan. 2023 – Jun. 2024
- Engineered 25+ KNIME workflows automating complex data processing across SAP, IUCLID, and REACH datasets replacing hours of manual analysis.
- Reduced data retrieval times by over 50% by implementing 2 centralized SharePoint databases with automated labelling, migrating 100,000+ historical files.
- Developed a Palantir Foundry proof-of-concept consolidating data from 3 separate SAP MM systems into a unified architecture demonstrating a viable alternative to legacy SAP workflows.
Working Student, Logistics & Warehousing
AsphaltGold GmbH Darmstadt, Germany
- Redesigned inventory placement strategy for high-velocity SKUs, increasing warehouse space utilization by 10% and improving order picking times.
- Implemented inventory control best practices reducing stock level errors and improving overall accuracy across the warehouse.
Software Internship, Facility Locations
Siemens
Network optimization, XCargo modules, As-Is analysis, transport & warehouse cost modeling, and location planning case study.
SAP Case Study, Supply Chain Management
EY
Master data management in ERP/SCM systems, Supply Network Planning (SNP), and Production Planning & Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS).
Junior Operations Manager
Decathlon Morocco
- Reduced in-store order delivery and processing times by 15%, improving product availability by 8% through optimized coordination with suppliers and logistics partners.
- Cut online order processing time by 12%, increasing on-time deliveries and improving customer satisfaction by 10%+.
Key Projects
Operations Hub: Company-Wide Internal Automation Platform
React · Firebase (GCP) · JavaScript · Python · AI-Assisted Development
Designed and deployed solo a suite of 8 production applications used daily across Procurement, Finance, Logistics, Manufacturing, and Facility Management at NVision Quantum Technologies.
- PO Automator: End-to-end AI-powered Purchase Order tool: AI autofills supplier data from received offers, generates PO PDFs, uploads to Google Drive, tracks and logs all POs, adapts the form dynamically to the offer received.
- Invoice Processor: AI-powered invoice logging app used by Procurement, Finance & Logistics, automatically extracts and logs invoice data to Google Sheets with near-perfect accuracy.
- Location Tracker: AirTag-based real-time tracking app for high-value Polaris systems deployed globally. Location updates live whenever a nearby iPhone is detected, enabling pinpoint global asset tracking.
- Manufacturing Orders: Full management of manufacturing orders, spare parts inventory, and stock levels, enabling real-time production visibility and inventory control.
- Logistics Automator: Mirrors the PO Automator for outbound logistics: generates Packing Lists and Proforma Invoices, auto-logs to Google Sheets for complete shipment traceability.
- File Organizer: AI-powered app that reads documents, standardizes file names, and auto-uploads to the correct supplier folder. Used retroactively to label, rename, and categorize 50,000+ archived files across the company's entire document history.
- Inbound Control App: Controls every received shipment, AI extracts all relevant delivery note data and auto-logs to Google Sheets, giving the team a precise, searchable record of every inbound delivery.
- Utility Metrics App: Consumption tracking app monitoring Water, Electricity, Heating & Cooling. Auto-generated PDF and Google Slides reports relied upon daily by the Facility Management team. IoT integration currently in development.
View the full Operations Hub in Projects →
Impact: 400+ annual hours of manual work eliminated · PO creation time reduced from 15 min → 3 min · 50,000+ files retroactively organized · Real-time asset tracking across 3+ continents · Daily executive reporting automated end-to-end.
Odoo ERP Implementation: Company-Wide ERP Rollout
Odoo · Google Sheets · DotCompliance · EUDAMED · GUDID
Led end-to-end implementation of Odoo ERP across NVision Quantum Technologies GmbH as sole Project Manager, overseeing a team of 2 and managing all 11 workstreams across 6 project phases.
- Modules & Scope: Deployed core ERP modules across Finance, Procurement, Logistics, Inventory, Field Service, and Operations — covering purchase orders, invoicing, inventory management, manufacturing orders, and field service workflows.
- Customer-Facing Applications: Designed and deployed the PH2 Calculators App (product configuration and pricing) and a full customer webshop integrated with Odoo for automatic Sales Order creation, enabling customers to track orders, access invoices, and manage open-ended orders.
- Integrations: Managed system integrations including DotCompliance, EUDAMED, GUDID, bank feeds, and label printing.
- Regulatory Groundwork: Mapped all regulatory requirements to ERP capability ahead of CSV validation and EUDAMED compliance readiness.
- Project Governance: Built and maintained a full project command center (Google Sheets) tracking module coverage, data migration status, UAT test cases, training plans, risk register, and issues log across all workstreams.
- Timeline: Phase 1 core modules rollout completed in 9 to 10 months.
Impact: Unified operations across 6 departments on a single ERP platform · Eliminated siloed manual processes across Procurement and Logistics · Created a direct customer-facing digital channel through webshop and Sales Order automation.
Education
M.Sc. Logistics & Supply Chain Management
Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt) Germany
Thesis: Systematic Review on European Electricity Mix: Analysis of Electricity Markets and Energy Security.
Masters in Financial & Accounting Management
Ibn-Zohr University (UIZ / ENCG) Morocco
Thesis: Restructuring Moroccan Financial Institutions: A Strategic Diagnostic Framework for Consulting-Led Transformation.
Technical Skills & Tools
Development & Automation
- Python
- JavaScript / React
- Firebase (GCP)
- Power Automate
- Power Apps
- REST APIs
AI & Data Tools
- Claude (Anthropic)
- GPT / Codex (OpenAI)
- Gemini (Google)
- KNIME Analytics
- Power BI
- Google Looker Studio
- Palantir Foundry
ERP & Procurement Systems
- SAP MM
- Odoo
- Microsoft Dynamics BC
- SharePoint
- JIRA & Confluence
- Wrike
Operating Systems
- Windows 10/11
- Linux (CachyOS / Arch-based)
Languages
- Berber (Native)
- Arabic (Native)
- French (Native)
- English (Fluent)
- German, B1 in progress (A2 certified)
Leadership & Extracurricular
- RIU Club: 1× President, 2× Vice President, 1× Honorary Council Member. Led event management raising €20,000+ for charity across Haunted House, Sakura Day, and Geexpo events.
- Founding member of Student Association and Treasurer of Entrepreneurship Club. Organized 3× ENCG Enterprises Forum and 1× Entrepreneurship Club Open Days.
Editorial Articles
A selection of recent articles by Reda Ameioud. Full archive at /archive.
- Building a Business Case for Automation When Your Company Still Runs on Spreadsheets Most automation advice assumes you are starting from an organized place. That is not where most companies are when they actually have this conversation.
- ERP Selection Is a Political Process Disguised as a Technical One By the time you have picked a system, the decisions that will determine whether the project succeeds have already been made.
- Germany's Industrial Decline: Is Europe's Largest Economy Becoming a Deindustrialization Case Study The model worked for decades. Then the gas stopped flowing, the Chinese EVs arrived, and the US started subsidizing its own industrial base.
- How AI Is Changing Procurement, and Where It Still Falls Apart For specific, high-volume tasks with consistent inputs, it performs well. For the parts of procurement that were actually hard before, it still is.
- China Plus One Is Easier to Announce Than to Execute Moving production to Vietnam, India, or Mexico looks straightforward until you actually start doing it.
- Europe Is Spending on Defense. The Hard Part Comes After That. Germany's 500 billion euro commitment is real. The supply base capable of absorbing it is not.