Foreign Purchasing Manager
Misr Fertilizers Production Company (MOPCO)
Total years of experience :23 years, 8 Months
- Responsible for two foreign purchasing sections to manage purchasing of mechanical spares, equiments, instrumentation, chemicals and raw materials.
- Receive the Purchasing Requests from all departments, approve it, and distribute it on the Foreign Purchasing sections.
- Follow up the execution of all Foreign Purchasing Orders, and ensure that they were executed incompliance with the company regulations on time.
- Directing the Foreign Purchasing team and support them in negotiations with supplies.
- Daily follow-up the performance of the Foreign Suppliers.
- Responsible for coordinating with the Financial Department in opening LCs and all payment procedures.
- Receiving invoices from the suppliers, submit it to the financial department and follow-up suppliers payments.
- Coordinating with the Logistics Section regarding for customs and transferring issues until receiving the purchased materials in the company Warehouse.
- Responsible for reporting foreign purchasing follow up report to the purchasing sector manager on weekly and monthly basis.
- Source new foreign suppliers to improve quality, price and credit terms for the purchased materials.
- Responsible for handling negotiations with the major foreign suppliers.
- Responsible for evaluating the performance of the foreign suppliers and report it to the Purchasing Sector Manager.
- Receive Foreign Purchase Requests from all departments of the company.
- Coordinate with Warehousing Section to ensure receiving the foreign purchased materials from the suppliers.
- Lead and direct the Foreign Purchasing team to achieve the department goals.
- Evaluate the performance of the subordinates and report it to the purchasing sector manager quarterly.
- Receive the Purchasing Requests from all departments, approve it, and distribute it on the Foreign Purchasing Representatives.
- Follow up the execution of all Foreign Purchasing Orders, and ensure that they were executed incompliance with the company regulations on time.
- Directing the Foreign Purchasing Representatives and support them in negotiations with supplies.
- Daily follow-up the performance of the Foreign Suppliers.
- Responsible for coordinating with the Financial Department in opening LCs.
- Receiving invoices from the suppliers, submit it to the financial department and follow-up suppliers payments.
- Coordinating with the Logistics Section regarding for customs and transferring issues until receiving the purchased materials in the company Warehouse.
- Responsible for reporting foreign purchasing follow up report to the purchasing sector manager on monthly basis.
- Source new foreign suppliers to improve quality, price and credit terms for the purchased materials.
- Responsible for handling negotiations with the major foreign suppliers.
- Responsible for evaluating the performance of the foreign suppliers and report it to the Purchasing Sector Manager.
- Receive Foreign Purchase Requests from all departments of the company.
- Coordinate with Warehousing Section to ensure receiving the foreign purchased materials from the suppliers.
- Lead and direct the Foreign Purchasing Representatives to achieve the department goals.
- Evaluate the performance of his subordinates and report it to the purchasing sector manager quarterly.
• Supervise staff of three purchasing specialists
• Handling complete procurement cycle for purchase orders and contracts:
o selection of suppliers, preparation of tender/orders with supporting documentation
o Evaluation of bids (compliance to specification, quality, price, service support, availability, reliability, reputation, history etc) with support from the user.
o Elaboration and presentation recommendation to management for approval
o Expediting delivery, handle Irregularities, facilitate payment etc.
o Co-ordination with logistics provider to ensure smooth movement of the goods from supplier’s warehouse to the company’s site
• Establishing long terms supply chain programs (frame agreements / blanket orders)
• Interacting with vendors and end user departments to coordinate, facilitate, and resolve routine day to day procurement issues.
• Working on a time-bound schedule to meet the various users’ annual plant shutdown material requirements under pressure in an efficient and timely manner.
• Reviewing current source and continually pursue new qualified sources of goods and services through market intelligence.
• Researching and evaluating continuously existing suppliers to convert single -source / brand to multi-source/brand.
• Evaluating regularly suppliers’ performance to identify areas requiring improvement.
• Handling Irregularities and Insurance Claims and complete in a time bound schedule.
• Participating in studies towards the simplification of work procedures, continual improvement, and formulation of section’s targets, indicators & action plans.
• Staying alert of changing market conditions and adopt best practices as appropriate.
• Ensuring compliance with Safety, Health and Environment Management System thus allowing for safe, efficient operations.
• Supervise staff of four purchasing buyers
• Responsible for local and international emergency purchasing.
• Focal contact point to implement Maximo system in producing and analyzing final purchasing reports.
• Supplies and services contracts including projects and constructions service agreements.
• Prepare the annual requirement plan in advance with cooperation with requesters and warehouse.
• Attends and participates in professional group by weekly meetings with internal department's to update requester’s inquiries.
• Manage supplier's performance based on price, quality, selection, service, support, availability, reliability, production and distribution capabilities, and the supplier's reputation and history to update the approved supplier list.
• Negotiates with suppliers for commodity to obtain agreeable price, delivery schedule, and payment terms and discounts.
• Ensuring the AFE form to be filled in describing profits loses and cash flow.
• Monitoring the quality, quantity, cost and efficiency of shipments logistic to ensure that goods come in on time to inventory applying the INCOTERMS 2000 on all international bargains.
• Perform commercial evaluation of bids and prepares recommendations to tendering committees.
• Daily contact with the warehouse to apply inventory management inside the purchasing cycle to ensure safety stock and cost control.
• Maintain and develop the supply chain management in the international/local procurement to optimize the factors of product cost, transportation to the customer warehouse
• Working with "Maximo" system to issue request for quotations, purchase orders and follow up delivery in the inventory system.
computer instructor.
Marine Department In Addition to my work as responsible for Computer Department.
excellent
Programming & Analysis Diploma
Faculty of Commerce, Cairo University.