Her Story
About Mosammat
I’m currently with Ericsson, where I began as an intern before transitioning into a full-time role. Over the course of my career, I’ve gained experience across multiple industries, including telecommunications, HVAC, and semiconductors, before returning to Ericsson. This movement across companies and sectors has given me a broad and practical understanding of different corporate cultures, operating models, and supply chain processes.
One of my greatest strengths is my ability to assess supply chain maturity. I’ve worked in organizations with highly established processes, companies with very limited structure, and others somewhere in between. This has allowed me to recognize gaps, identify inefficiencies, and understand what improvements are needed to create better flow, stronger standards, and more effective processes.
My background in economics, forecasting, and project management also helps me connect broader market and economic factors to business decisions. I’m able to understand how changes in government policy, market conditions, or customer demand can impact the business and the work we do. I also enjoy sharing this perspective with colleagues to support better decision-making.
Overall, I’m highly process-oriented, continuously focused on improvement, and currently pursuing my Black Belt certification to further strengthen my skills in operational excellence.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Mosammat
01What do you attribute your success to?
Aspire to learn from work
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
Plan before you start working that helps me streamline my work and perform that either parallelly or sequentially. This technique helps me tremendously execute multiple tasks simultaneously.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
My advice to others is to develop a strong interest in the market, not just the data. Data is important, but it is not enough on its own. You may see a signal in the numbers, but to interpret it correctly, you need to understand how the market behaves.
Market uncertainty, customer behavior, regulations, and other external factors can all influence what the data is telling you. The more knowledge you have about these areas, the better equipped you are to make sound business decisions.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Currently, the industry challenges are many. First of all, because my responsibility is more of hardware forecasting, we buy hardware from different vendors across the globe - it was 29 countries, and I think about a hundred-some vendors we buy from. They are mostly in Asia, like Taiwan, China, and others. The lead time is getting bigger, longer and longer, and it's very hard for us to cope with that. On the other side, the customer has a demand of shorter lead time. So to be able to cater to customer need, we need to buy and plan very well, and buy ahead of time so we can support them. The challenge is we want to buy ahead - we don't mind to buy ahead of time, but again, it poses a risk of having inventory if customer changes their mind. So then how can we make sure that we can support customer by providing shorter lead time, which would require us to buy well ahead of time? Then, how can we make sure that our forecast, our planning is as accurate as possible? So we're trying to find all the different ways, utilizing statistical forecasts, utilizing machine learning, utilizing market data - all these things need to be very carefully considered to come up with our future number that customer might buy. These are very challenging. I actually even asked that question, why our lead times are getting longer and longer from the vendor, while our customer is asking us shorter and shorter lead times.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
I don't work just for the sake of doing it, enjoying work is key to improve the performance and reduce work related stress.
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