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Ali Ibrahim

Toolkit

What I use, and what for

Not a badge wall. Each of these earns its place by doing a specific job in a real workflow — from the system of record to the throwaway automation.

SAP

System of record

MM and IM day to day — material master, MRP runs, reservations, goods movements, physical inventory. I pull extracts for anything SAP's own reporting can't answer cleanly.

[PLACEHOLDER] A specific example — a reconciliation or a report you rebuilt outside SAP.

Power BI

Reporting

The layer stakeholders actually look at. I build the semantic model as much as the visuals — star schema, DAX measures, incremental refresh — so the numbers hold up under drill-down.

[PLACEHOLDER] Which reports, refreshed how often, used by whom.

QlikSense

Self-service analytics

Associative exploration for supply-chain KPIs where users need to slice freely rather than follow a fixed report path.

[PLACEHOLDER] A Qlik app you own and what question it answers.

Python

Building

Where a spreadsheet or a BI report stops being enough. Data pipelines, simulation (the safety-stock Monte-Carlo), the CPIM formula engine, Streamlit front-ends. pandas, numpy, scipy.

The CPIM calculator and the Monte-Carlo simulator on this site are both mine.

SQL

Data

Warehouse queries for reconciliation and for feeding BI models. Window functions and CTEs for anything that would otherwise be three nested spreadsheets.

[PLACEHOLDER] Which database / warehouse.

VBA

Automation

The pragmatic choice for automating recurring spreadsheet work that isn't yet worth a full application — and for tools that have to live inside Excel because that's where the users are.

[PLACEHOLDER] One process you automated and the time it saved.