About and contact
Danish Wazir Ahmed
24 years in textile supply chain. Who is behind the checking, what I am qualified to say, and how to reach me.
About & contact
Danish Wazir Ahmed
I am Danish Wazir Ahmed. I have spent 24 years in textile supply chain, most recently as Executive Director Supply Chain at Beximco Textiles, and before that in spinning, weaving and sourcing across Pakistan and Bangladesh. VeriMills exists because of one thing I kept watching happen: a buyer would find a mill, believe what the website said, and discover only after the money moved that the mill did not own the machine that made the cloth. This page is here so you know who is behind the checking, what I am qualified to say, and what I will not claim.
Why this exists
The problem I kept running into
For most of my career I sat on the buying side of this trade, inside large manufacturers, deciding which mills got the order. What struck me was how much of that decision came down to who I happened to know, and how little of it a smaller buyer could reproduce.
A factory owner in Dhaka buying two hundred tons a month has the same technical problem as a group buying ten thousand, but none of the same access. He gets shown mills he cannot check, by agents he cannot check either, and the only thing he can compare is a price with no way of knowing what sits behind it.
VeriMills is the attempt to fix that one thing. Check the mill first. Quote one specification the same way to everyone. Take the fee from the supplier, only when a shipment happens, so the buyer pays nothing to ask. Hold no stock, give no credit, and never sit on anyone's money.
Career
Where this came from
- Executive Director Supply Chain Beximco Textiles
Nine million garments a month, over 20 million dollars a month in procurement, a team of 40.
- Senior management, supply chain Crescent Bahuman
- Senior management, supply chain Alkaram Studio
- Senior management, supply chain Rajby
- Senior management, supply chain Artistic Milliners
- Senior management, supply chain Gul Ahmed
- Supply chain Al Abid
Five ERP transformations across these houses. Roles and dates in full on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab).
Twenty four years, in short
Twenty four years is easy to assert and worth laying out, because it is the thing a reader checks first before taking supply chain advice from anybody.
24 years, 7 companies, all of them in textiles or apparel, in Pakistan and Bangladesh. The work has covered spinning, weaving and sourcing, which is why the raw material desk and the garment desk on this site are not two businesses to me. They are two ends of one factory, and it is why a yarn count and a size grid get asked about in the same conversation.
The most recent of those roles was Executive Director Supply Chain at Beximco Textiles, and its scale is the only scale figure this site publishes: Nine million garments a month, over 20 million dollars a month in procurement, a team of 40.
The 5 ERP transformations noted above are also where the advisory work comes from, and why the honest half of an ERP readiness job is the list of what an organisation is not ready for rather than the software.
Where a volume, a headcount or a date is not published on this site, it is simply not here. Nothing in this section has been rounded up for the page.
Qualifications
Certification and study
MITx MicroMasters in Supply Chain Management, MIT, 2020
Post Graduate Diploma in Supply Chain Management, IBA Karachi
B.Sc. Textile Sciences, Textile Institute of Pakistan
Four things you can hold me to
I will tell you what I do not know. If I have not checked something, I will say it is unchecked rather than let you assume otherwise. That applies to a mill's certificate as much as to a delivery date.
The same specification gets the same answer. There is no version of a quote for buyers who ask harder questions and another for buyers who do not.
Your money never passes through me. You contract with the mill and you pay the mill. No stock, no credit, no escrow, no exceptions.
Advisory and sourcing stay separate, in writing. If I am advising your company on procurement, you will know in writing before any sourcing fee is earned anywhere near you.
Get in touch
The fastest way to a useful answer is the form that matches what you are buying, because a form asks the questions we would otherwise have to email you about. If you would rather just talk, the email address, the WhatsApp number and the phone number are all on this page and they all reach the same desk. We are in Karachi and Dhaka, which is GMT plus five and GMT plus six, so a message sent from Europe in the morning or from the US Gulf coast in the evening is usually answered the same working day.
Every message on this page reaches Danish Wazir Ahmed directly. There is no queue and no team to get past. Expect a reply within one working day.
The best way to reach us, and the one that keeps a record you can refer back to. Either address works, whichever is easier for you.
DW@verimills.com danish.wazir@gmail.comFor a quick question. This is a person on a phone, not an automated system, so it is not instant.
+92 321 389 7850 (opens in a new tab)Phone
Pakistan time, GMT plus five, roughly 9am to 8pm, which is 04:00 to 15:00 UTC: a whole European working day and the first part of a North American morning. If it rings out, send a message and we will call back.
+92 321 389 7850Career history, and where the weekly market notes get posted.
View the profile (opens in a new tab)Where we are
Head office in Karachi, Pakistan, and a second office in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Both are the same company, so there is one entity behind either desk, and either one answers anything on this site: the two offices are not a division of labour and nothing is handed between them. What they are is two of the countries the work is actually in. Pakistan is one of the four the raw material desk quotes from, and Bangladesh is one of the three the garment desk uses, so two of the countries a quote comes out of have an office in them and not just a phone number. We travel to Dubai and China as the work needs it. Please call or write before visiting.
Which form do you want?
Four forms, one per service. What they have in common is that each asks the questions a mill or a factory would otherwise have to email you about, which is the whole reason a form beats a blank message here. Pick the one that matches what you are buying.
Yarn, fibre or fabric
Cotton, cotton yarn, greige or finished fabric, bought by specification. The form asks for the count or the construction, the blend, the certification you need, the port and the Incoterm, because those are the lines a spinner or a weaver actually prices off. Fill them in and the quotes that come back can sit side by side instead of arriving as a question about what count you meant.
Ask for a quoteGarments
Finished clothing made to your own design. The form asks what you are making, how many pieces per style and colour, where you have got to with the tech pack and when you need it in the warehouse. If you do not have a tech pack yet, say so on the form. It is the commonest answer of all and it stops nothing.
Start a garment enquiryHome textiles
Bed linen, towels, quilts, curtains, cushions and table linen. It is a separate form from garments on purpose, because a home textile order is quoted off a construction and a size grid rather than a size run, and a duvet set is a cover plus pillowcases across three bed sizes rather than one line. The form asks for the size grid, not for a size chart.
Start a home textiles enquiryAdvisory
Not buying anything, but want a supply chain problem looked at: stock rising while service falls, a planning cycle nobody owns, an ERP purchase halfway through. The form asks for the company and its size, the problem in your own words, and a time of day and time zone that suit you, so the first call can be diagnostic instead of introductory.
Request a callIf none of the four fits, the message form below reaches the same desk and the same person. To tell us the site is missing something, or that something on it is wrong or not working, use the feedback form.
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