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Ahmad Wassin Al Gendy is Corporate Supply Chain Director for Hepworth in the UAE , an organisation that produces integrated piping systems for the construction and civil engineering industries . It is part of Corys Building Materials , a holding company based in Dubai , which manages two other leading regional construction and building materials businesses : Corys Build Centre and Corys Geosynthetics .
Al Gendy is responsible for the end-to-end supply chain operations and deals with a global network of suppliers , as he explains : “ We source our raw materials from within the region as well as importing from Europe , India and the US . If we don ’ t have a secure raw material supply source with good supplier relationship management in place we are risking our business .” To avoid this risk , Al Gendy says , Hepworth works with a
70 March 2016