By Frederick Halley

GUYANA-born Mahmoud Fawzi Wahab, a Certified Supply Chain Professional and a Certified Supply Chain Manager, is eager to lend his expertise to his homeland.
In a recent interview with the Pepperpot Magazine, Fawzi disclosed that working or consulting with companies, corporations or the government in the areas of Inventory and Materials Management, Inventory Auditing, domestic and global logistic shipment planning, production
planning, warehouse efficiency, ABC analysis, 5S, forecasting and demand planning, root-cause analysis, and pareto analysis are some of the areas in which he’s capable of playing major roles.

According to Fawzi, he has more than 25 years of experience/knowledge in the field of Logistics & Supply Chain Management (L&SCM), acquired through employment and contracts with Fortune 500 companies such as Procter & Gamble (P&G), Kraft Canada, and ICI Paints among others.
Fawzi also spent seven years teaching L&SCM for an affiliate of St. Lawrence College of Kingston, Ontario. This role involved lecturing and preparing all academic materials, exams, case studies, course and learning outcomes, preparing student workbooks for twelve courses, grading and student evaluations. He currently sits on the L&SCM Programme Advisory Committee for colleges.

LIFE IN GUYANA
Fawzi was born in 1956 in Sheet Anchor Village, Canje, Berbice, the third of five sons to Abdul and Raheisan Wahab.
His father was a member of the Guyana Police Force. In the tradition of police services, it is very typical for officers to be transferred to various districts. This resulted in the family having to live in various villages (Fyrish, Albion, Port Mourant, Rosehall, Springlands, Skeldon, Reliance, and he and his siblings having to attending several elementary schools, including JB Croppa.

When his father was transferred to Georgetown to be an instructor at the Police Training School, the travel continued with residences in Eve Leary, Eccles, Herstelling, and finally, Nandy Park and Peters Hall. Fawzi continued his school journey by attending Kingston Government School, St. Ambrose Anglican School, Providence Government, and finally finished his high school at the Indian Educational Trust College.

After school, his first job was with Torginol Paints as a paint tinter, and he attended the founding meeting of the Guyana Manufacturers Association.
Fawzi then served on the United Nations Guyana Mapping Project, where he trained in cartography and photogrammetry, and then specialised in the field of photo mechanics.

During this tenure, he also served as the counterpart to the United Nations Expert in the field of Photo Mechanics. During this time, Fawzi also travelled to Ebini, Wismar, Mara, Lethem, Abary, Mackenzie, Wakenaam, Charity, and Dandanawa, all places in his native Guyana, and took long trips along the Pomeroon River, Canje River and the Demerara River.
Fawzi has been an ardent photographer for many years, capturing thousands of photographs on his trips. Many of his photographs in Guyana were displayed during the Agriculture and National ‘Expo’ in Georgetown.

Fawzi moved to Canada in 1981, and continued in the field of Photo Mechanics, working for Kenting Earth Sciences in Calgary, and the Alberta Bureau of Surveying & Mapping (Government of Alberta) in Edmonton.
He is an avid philatelist, who focuses only on British Guiana.
Fawzi studied Operations Management at the University of Alberta, and also acquired Journeyman Printing Licences for Alberta and Ontario.
After moving to Ontario, Fawzi acquired an honours degree in mechanical engineering, and transitioned into logistics and supply chain management.
Fawzi offers his services as a consultant within L&SCM, and tutoring specialised modules in L&SCM focusing on process improvements and profitability for his clients.