Assistant Manager Purchase
Al Futtaim Automotive
Total years of experience :17 years, 5 Months
• Identify & Develop strategic partnerships with established and proven suppliers and traders across the Globe for sourcing OES parts (Aftermarket Parts) in order to fulfil Business needs.
• Initiate Price comparison & Price negotiations with vendor at competitive prices to enhance the Gross Margin of OES Parts.
• Lead the supply and availability of OES parts by vendor ensuring lean stock management and high service rate by closely monitoring lead-time and supply chain logistics.
• Lead and align the team of direct reports & ensure their individual targets to meet & also to achieve the Annual Budget & Department objectives.
• Evaluate & monitor the overall performance of Supplier for ensuring the Quality & delivery on time to meet the Business Plan.
• Lead & ensure the applicable Product categories shall comply with the Technical Regulations adopted by the MoIAT (Ministry of Industry & Advanced Technology, previously ESMA) & to obtain the Certificate of Conformity (ECAS) by coordinating MoIAT approved agency.
• Collate lost sales data from BU / MIS team and analyze to identify products and/or parts that potentially could increase company revenue.
• Close coordination with Suppliers & Internal stake holders.
• Ensure high stock availability and daily order replenishment to all the Al-Futtaim branches through the SAP and Syncron ordering system.
• Ensure to achieve cost Savings target by Implementing OES/IAM parts & effective negotiation with suppliers.
• Monitors and optimize inventory to minimize obsolescence & increase the inventory turnover ratio
• Initiate & leading Digital Omni channel E-commerce platform for the supply of OES parts to B2B & Retail customers (On going)
• Preparing Annual Operating Budget for OES Parts department.
• Exposure in SAP, Ariba & Syncron systems.
• Cost effective procurement of Automobile spare parts (OE/OEM/After sales) from Local & International sources.
• Analyze annual procurement projection plan and demand planning
• Ensures Stock availability of items & timely reorder of parts based on actual/estimated consumption & supplier lead time.
• Monitoring and control of Inventory & Ageing stock items.
• Monitoring & Analyzing market trends in Domestic & International.
• Handling around 20, 000 part no’s with more than 25 suppliers in both domestic & international.
• Identify & develop new products in OE/OEM & Aftermarket parts & ensure to increase the Parts Range.
• Identify & selection of New supplier as per the ISO QSP system procedure.
• Ensures to achieve Supplier turnover & also Co-ordinate with Sales team for achieving Sales target.
• Carryout quarterly supplier performance assessment in terms of Quality, Delivery & Cost.
• Coordination with Stores, Accounts department for ensuring timely payment to Suppliers.
• Achieve annual cost saving targets.
• Close co-ordination of Receiving Claims & Warranty claim process & take it up with suppliers for smooth claim/warranty settlement by receiving Credit note or FOC items.
• Conducting periodic Incoming inspection for the items which received in Warehouse.
• Co-ordinate ISO Surveillance audits & maintains the ISO documentation as per Quality system procedure.
• Took initiative & implemented Automobile Spare parts CAR CATALOGUE for MERCEDES BENZ, BMW, VOLKSWAGEN etc.,
• Preparation of monthly MIS to submit the management.
• Direct parts procurement (Sheet metal & Fabrication, Electrical, Proprietary items) as per Monthly/weekly production plan.
• Procurement for Aftersales components (Spare parts) as per the indent received from Marketing / PCD divisions.
• Deployment of Scheduling & Ordering management.
• Ensuring the Parts to production line without line stop as per weekly / Monthly plan.
• Confer with logistics, Stores & Quality department, so as to manage the receipt & Quality acceptance of goods in an effective manner.
• Identify & develop new vendor base & sourcing of new products & Cost negotiation / Order finalization with vendors.
• Effectively manage relationship with all the suppliers and also carry out evaluation of their overall performance on periodic basis & ongoing.
• Preparing Management Information System (MIS).
• Manages vendor relationships effectively to ensure timely supply of quality materials at competitive rates
• Vendor e-portal implementation
• Deployment of Engineering Change Management (ECM) with nil obsolescence.
• Floating RFQ.
• Procurement of Tractor parts (Gears & Forgings etc., ) to ensure supply to production line without line stoppages.
• New Products timely implementation (Domestic tractors) & Ramp-up of Upgrade tractors.
• Deployment of Engineering Change Management (ECM) with nil obsolescence.
• BOM verification of New Products.
• Responsible for BETA BUILD Tractors sign-off at Plant & ensuring resolution of Assembly issues in new model Tractor build before Mass production.
• Alternate source development of critical parts & SOB comparison/finalization of multi vendors.
• Capacity study at supplier end to ensure timely capacity build-up to meet the Production requirement based on IPC plan.
• Responsible for Nil FIRST PASS YIELD (FPY)
• Evaluate & Monitor the overall performance of Vendor.
• Purchase order / Monthly schedule release.
• Timely placement of order as per schedule.
• Identification & removal of bottle necks in supplier end & ensuring quality with delivery to meet the production target without line stoppages.
• Driving & participating CSF’s (Critical Success Factor)
• Supplier evaluation in terms of Delivery performance as per SOB.
• Vendor Identification & Development of Components adopting PPAP methodology.
• Price negotiations with vendor & Order finalization.
• Localization of Import items.
• Alternate Sourcing & Vendor Audits (PSA audit etc., )
• Evaluate, monitor & Release the overall performance (Vendor Rating) of the vendor for ensuring the Quality & delivery in time to meet the production requirement.
• Lead & Drive KPI’s such as Material Ratio, Cost Savings, Product Development.
• Releasing Purchase Orders and Follow up with Suppliers.
• Preparing Management Information System (MIS) on regular basis
• Responsible for conducting MOM with Suppliers to resolving the Non-Conformities.
• Support ERP activities in Purchase dept.
• Pivotal in implementing Production cum Production Planning & Control for smooth flow of operations in shop floor.
• Successfully carrying out sheet metal Layout in HR & CR sheets for Production.
• Manpower planning & work load allotment of men & machines.
• Responsible and Guiding for Sheet metal operations like Punching, Forming, Nibbling, Drawing, Notching, Coining etc.
• Activity involved in implementation of ISO 9001: 2000 quality control standards.
• Guiding Jigs & Fixtures for dies in Production.
• Maintaining Records & Documents of Production.
Specialisation: operations, Marketing & Hr
Mechanical engineering
Foundry technology