Supply Chain Director
Forsan Foods & Consumer Products Co. Ltd
Total years of experience :18 years, 8 Months
* Provide leadership within the function and departments (Local Purchases & International Procurement, Warehouses, Logistics and Fleet management) by providing direction and support to the implementation and maintenance of supply chain policies, instructions, and internal control procedures.
* Design, develop and implement a sourcing strategy that optimizes total cost of ownership
*Work closely with Sales, R&D and Manufacturing groups to ensure that the supply chain organization can react quickly to and support customer needs and new product initiatives
*Work across the entire organization to teach and mentor on supply chain best practices so that employees can be more effective in their roles.
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Responsibilities:
•Development of the estimated annual budget for purchases.
•Draw up the category plan in line with the AOP and in coordination with Finance.
•Implementation of the plan with the actual estimate and calculate deviations/saving and raise reports.
Job Purpose
•Ensure best total cost of ownership for procured goods and services for the Est.
•Maintain flexible, competitive and reliable supplier base.
•Lead and develop the category team to deliver professional level purchasing and sourcing while developing targeted savings.
Principle Accountabilities
1) Develop Category Organization
•Create structure.
•Evaluate standing organization, identify talents and set development coaching and training plans.
•Restructure functions.
2) Strategy
•Create strategies based on business trends.
•Base line relevant spent category commodities.
•Set category budget and agree saving targets with relevant functions.
3)Supplier base management
•Identification of new suppliers (Regional and/or Global value sourcing).
•Relationship management with key suppliers.
•Supplier audits and risk management.
•Supplier development plans.
4) Stake holder management
•Key contacts for the category.
•Ensure that budgets and plans are available.
•Propose specification changes/designs to cost.
•Process optimizations.
•Governance.
5)Contribution to net results
•Ensure that the category achieves targeted goal and savings.
•Implementation of advanced category methods (e.g. auctions, value sourcing and advanced negotiation concepts)
•Category budget control.
6) Reporting
•Monthly spend analysis.
•Monthly savings.
•Market trends on quarterly basis.
•Contracts management.
7)Internal communication & work relationships
• Key department heads.
• Operations/CFO/CEO
* Develop the estimated annual budget for the purchases, draw up a purchases plan and implement the plan with the actual estimate and calculate deviations and raise reports to explain the reasons of deviation
* Plan, organize, direct, manage and evaluate operations of Procurement services including administration of suppliers purchases and agreements related to materials, goods, services, capital constructions and renovations in line with the AOP budget
*Draft vendor agreements to include strategic assessment and mitigate risk with vendors and suppliers through well structured agreements
* communicate category strategy, objectives and performance targets with management team of relevant business functions
* Plan and execute alternative supplier's assessment, transition strategy and related communications and information.
* Define requirements and specifications for sourced materials and assist in the development of strategies for newly sourced goods by working closely with Quality Control.
*Manage, train and coach Purchasing team to develop effective high performance team.
*lead negotiations to reach to the best available prices for purchases using bulk purchase techniques where possible without compromising the quality of goods needed.
* Stay current with internal and external factors impacting procurement functions and prepare and administer bids requests for quotes, proposals, information and other vendor documentation.
*Keep eye on international market prices trends for commodities and raise regular reports to the relevant executive team.
*Qualify, re-evaluate and monitor the suppliers' performance to ensure smooth delivery of quality products, services cost effectively
*Keep watch on quality and quantity conformity of delivered items with the order's terms
* Make sure that the Purchasing team adhere to the approved PP&P and the professional ethics and practices.
* Review & process claims against suppliers who fail to meet their obligations.