ABDUL  GHAFFAR, Sourcing Specialist

ABDUL GHAFFAR

Sourcing Specialist

General Electric International Inc.

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Public Administration
Experience
15 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :15 years, 7 Months

Sourcing Specialist at General Electric International Inc.
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since April 2010

• Productivity Job:
o Negotiation for UPS and Battery of different specification for Healthcare and GEPC and Alstom Legacy, Non-Listed Items and Helium, Chiller, HVAC etc., T & L, Telecommunication, Fleets, Pre-installation and Civil work, Contingent workers, IT related products for employee as well as customer, Freight, etc…
o Negotiation with supplier for quality, Competitive Price, On-time Delivery and reasonable payment term of the product/Service.
o Implement/Negotiate the new contract or review of existing contract to ensure the sound purchasing practice and assure compliant acquisition of materials or service that meet Spirit & Letter.
o A combination of cost depletion through VCP, Cost Avoidance and Business Impact of approximately $5.6M in 2015 that is more than OP $5 M.
o In the Q2 of 2016, $2.5M productivity has been achieved and $2M in pipeline.
o Secured the productivity $ 1M after negotiating and signing the contract for local transportation particularly for GE Healthcare.
• Administrative Job: Contributed for proper implementation of Supplier Addition Maintain and implementation of SSP, adherence of EHS and GE compliance to add new supplier, QMS relevant supplier and coordinating to get its proper approval, etc…
o Coordinating with Oracle team to resolve issues related to purchasing module of oracle.
o To help employees in direct and indirect purchasing system;
o Organized and developed Vendor Management data and process of indirect purchasing with commodity-wise.
o Adherence to make GE compliance policy, EHS policy and T & L Policy to employees.

• Financial Job: Coordinating with A/P team, supplier and original requester for the payment to supplier, implementation of new invoicing process and payment;

o Enhancing GE credibility in the market, price negotiation and increasing payment term of supplier etc…
• Managing & Coordination: Fleet management, Telecomm service and Contingent workers management, Meeting and Events arrangement, control on usage of mobile, operational support to HSTI and other modalities, SSP and SAM through central support team, etc…

o Operational part of Fleet for employees, mobile device and SIM & Data SIM, DIA & IPVPN service to maintain record correctly and effectively, coordinating with central support team of SSP and ISA to reduce the system error for efficiency.
o Lead the team for QMS qualification project team to complete the supplier qualification process of existing suppliers.

• Training & Education:
o Online SSP R12 and Supplier Addition Maintain (SAM) Training with reference material along with Frequently Asked Questions for employees in Saudi, UAE, Egypt and Jordan.
o On hand training to employees for Excel and PowerPoint;
o Circulation of information about any changes in Airlines policies to make hassle-free travel.
o Circulation of information related to GE policy related to employees such as Fleets and Mobile.

• Simplification and Innovation:
o Developed an SOP of Invoice submission to A/P team by suppliers to reduce at zero level of payment delay;
o Discussed with OTR and logistic team to simplify and reduce the time for PO creation to avoid delay in payment for Freight and custom clearance supplier;
o Suggested SSP team to addition and modification to make more easy and user friendly SSP;
o Discussion with Finance Team to implement blanket PO to save the time of stakeholders;
o Idea to add cost center at receiving level in oracle to speed up the payment time.
o Introduced e-Auction system for Civil and Pre-installation work in OTR.

• Sourcing Reviewer:
o To approve PO as a Sourcing Reviewer for Saudi Arabia, UAE and Jordan;
o To approve direct and indirect Supplier Addition WF for Saudi, UAE and Jordan;
o Indirect sourcing Compliance control and its proper implementation along with awareness about Sprit & Letter of GE and work culture;

Purchasing Manager at Al-Ehsan Trading Est.
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • September 2008 to February 2010

* Projection for Purchasing;
* Genuine and Reliable Vendor Finding;
* Price Negotiation;
* Payment Term;
* Quality Verification;
* On time Delivery;
* Responsible for 20 Million Saudi Riyal Annual Purchasing.

Education

Master's degree, Public Administration
  • at Aligarh Muslim University
  • July 1994

Gold Medalist for scoring highest percentile.

Specialties & Skills

Purchasing
Negotiation
Language
Computer
Purchasing

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Intermediate
Urdu
Expert
Hindi
Expert