Procurement Buyer
Strata Manufacturing
Total des années d'expérience :12 years, 0 Mois
Managing Sourcing and contractual coverage of different commodities, mitigating risks, optimizing commercial advantages, and providing security of supply.
Supplier Sourcing and Management:
● Identifying new suppliers and float inquiries to receive quotations for required materials as per Bill of Material (BOM), Bill Of Quantity (BOQ) and technical requirements (RFP / RFQ process)
● Managing new supplier selection processes and qualifies suppliers in cooperation with Supplier Quality and Engineering specialists.
● Reviewing quotations / proposals including commercial terms (payment, delivery, and shipping), conducting cost analysis, and negotiating to achieve purchasing goals to deliver best and competitive offers for the respective commodities.
● Negotiates agreements with main suppliers, and periodically renews price lists, terms, and conditions as per Service Level Agreement (SLA)
● Acting as a commercial interface between suppliers and other relevant departments on new programs and activities.
● Monitoring supplier performance, Maintaining the Supplier Master Records / Updates / New Supplier Setup
● Working closely with Engineering and supply chain functions to review opportunities for continuous improvements.
Purchasing, Expediting and Freight forwarding:
● Initiates Purchase Orders in the system, confirms delivery with suppliers, monitors and tracks supplier performance as per purchase order requirements.
● Solving the issues related to the vendors including price changes in the Purchase Order (PO), Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ) and Special Packaging Quantity (SPQ)
● Consolidating and scheduling the deliveries as per Dangerous Goods (DG) and temperature control parameters and arranging pickups via Reefer / Dry Ocean Containers, Dry-Ice / DG Air freights and Road transportations
● Coordinating with logistics team, arranging for pickup of materials from the origin as per agreed Inco terms and tracking until it reaches the destination.
● Organizing KPI review meetings on weekly basis on the following
✔ On-Time Delivery of the materials
✔ Presentation on the Open Order Report
✔ Critical shortages of the materials
Material Planning & Inventory management:
● Performing periodic spend analysis, categorizing materials as A, B, C etc., based on the quarterly / yearly spend and maintaining stock levels accordingly.
● Keeping the inventory in-check without shortage or excess of materials and performing Inventory audit once in every month and performing Pull-in, Push-out and Cancellations of orders
● Managing Shelf-life Expiry inventory with high priority to avoid & reduce scrapping the expired stock by performing weekly review with internal stakeholders.
*Currently handling materials related to Railroad and Signalling for Dubai Tram (Design and Build Consortium) - Client: RTA Dubai
*Sourcing and procuring technical / nontechnical items (Direct and Indirect Procurement) according to defined specifications with Local (Gulf) and Overseas suppliers.
*Responsible for end to end Procurement cycle including,
-Supplier sourcing and management
-Purchasing
-Expediting
-Freight Forwarding and logistics
-Inventory Management and Quality checking
*Procuring technical / nontechnical items (Direct and Indirect Procurement) according to defined specifications with Local (Gulf) and Overseas suppliers.
Supplier Sourcing and Management:
*Identifying new suppliers and float inquiries to receive quotations for required materials as per Bill Of Quantity (BOQ) from various departments and branches accordingly.
*Qualifies new suppliers in cooperation with Supplier Quality and Engineering specialists.
*Reviewing quotations / proposals including commercial terms (payment, delivery, warranty and shipping), conducting value analysis, and negotiate to achieve purchasing goals
*Negotiates agreements with main suppliers, and periodically renews price lists, terms and conditions
*Maintaining the Supplier Master Records / Updates / New Supplier Setup
*Coordinating with accounts team for supplier payments to be released on time
Purchasing and Expediting:
*Initiates Purchase Orders (LPO) in the system (Visual Dolphin), confirms delivery with suppliers, monitors and tracks supplier performance to purchase order requirements
*Solving the issues related to the vendors including price change in the Purchase Order (PO), Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ) and Special Packaging Quantity (SPQ)
*Coordinating with logistics team, arranging for pickup of materials from the origin and tracking until it reaches the destination
*Organizing review meeting with clients on weekly basis on the following
On-Time Delivery of the materials
Presentation on the Open Order Report
Critical shortages of the materials
Inventory management and QC:
*Keeping the inventory in check without shortage or excess of materials and performing Inventory audit
*Performing QC for outgoing Diesel generators to customers
*Supervise in-bound issues (Receipt problems, Delivery issues, Supplier Invoice Issues, Quality related issues) and providing additional support to warehousing team
-Creating Purchase Order based on the request from the Customer and communicating it to Vendors. \[Purchase Request (PR) to Purchase Order (PO)\].
-Helping in solving the issues of the vendor like Price Change in the Purchase Order (PO), Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ).
-Maintaining deliverable On Time Delivery (OTD) to 100% throughout the period.
-Responsible to validate purchase requisitions for list of materials after MRP release based on current demand.
-Getting response for the Open Order Report (OPOR) and updating in the ERP tool (BAAN V) within the Service Level Agreement (SLA) Time.
-Solving issues in receipt of materials and vendor payments
Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics (EEE)