Supply Chain Supervisor
WE
Total years of experience :17 years, 1 Months
Develop and implement various purchasing strategies and procurement policies and participate in all supplier reduction programs in accordance to the global supply chain management and determine appropriate programs for all purchase requirements and assist to reduce overall supply chain cost; including:
•Supervise and control all activities and evaluate all purchase orders and payment performance and assist to eliminate any discrepancy in same and prepare all contract terms and conditions.
•Administer everyday activities of all purchasing staff and provide training to staff and monitor all purchasing activities and design various cost effective methods according to demands.
•Organization and prioritization of the organization's purchasing activities
•Identifies and researches potential new suppliers.
•Monitors business trends and product availability to pay the best price for company goods and services without sacrificing quality or delivery times
•Develops and implements strategies for procuring, storing, and distributing goods or services and maintaining stock levels.
•Negotiating with external vendors to secure advantageous terms.
•Examine and test existing contracts.
•Track and report key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness.
•Foresee alterations in the comparative negotiating ability of suppliers and clients.
•Expect unfavorable events through analysis of data and prepare control strategies.
•Perform risk management for supply contracts and agreements.
•Control spends and builds a culture of long-term saving on procurement costs.
Managing all Supply Chain / customs clearance and logistics activities including:
• Perform and implement all custom clearance activities such as following upcoming Shipment, documents transactions and day-to-day related activities in accordance with the objectives, policies and procedures.
• Participating in implementing the anticipated plans and programs as per the set goals to ensure internal work development and productivity increase.
• Participating in the development of the Customs Clearance Section's work plan and preparing work schedules and expediting workflow to improve the efficiency of the Customs Clearance Section.
• Suggesting plans and programs that strive to improve the effectiveness of the Customs Clearance Section.
• Following up with operation department and Clients for reception of the complete set of shipping documents for customs clearance purposes, and ensure its compliance with Egypt Customs regulations and exemption lists requirements.
• Following up with the Freight Forwarders, couriers and shipping lines for freight quotations and price lists for inbound and outbound shipments.
• Follow up shipments and documents with the freight forwarders and shipping lines.
• Following up with the transporter(s) to ensure on time & complete delivery of cleared shipments.
• Keeping records of all demurrages, detentions, etc. and follow up with the concerned buyers for settlements and implements preventive actions to avoid customs penalties.
• Examining invoices and shipping manifests for conformity to tariff and customs regulations.
• Preparing periodic reports with respect to Customs Clearance Section's activities and achievements.
• Have complete knowledge to prepare and confirmed all import permits from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and General Safety and Security and all import custom exemption documents, formats and formalities.
• Verify the delivery of imported product, once cleared, from the sea to our designated warehouses.
• Analyze and identify areas of improvements within the logistics management system.
• Ensure shipping shipments as per agreed standards and rules.
• Ensure and maintain close follow up with the suppliers to ship the shipments as per the agreed dates.
• Maintain close and daily follow up with clearing agents, forwarders to clear and deliver the shipment within minimum number of days.
• Update supplier records and conduct supplier evaluations
• Optimize resources.
• Negotiate and enhance shipping rates and condition to reduce cost.
• Update logistics system data consistently.
• Assign task and objectives to the Purchase coordinators.
• Liaise with all departments about on timely sending and receiving orders.
• Ensure all work is planned and operated in a correct manner.
• Monitor the pace and flow of product from receiving through delivery.
• Manage cost control over shipping and clearing cost.
• Coordinate with insurance and suppliers regarding shipment claims and surveys.
• Liaise with the retail department for stock takes.
• Control the order cycle and associated storage and movement of goods between various sites.
• Analyze data to monitor performance and plan improvements in delivery performance.
Customer Relation Management.
• Account management of key sales channel relationships (integrators & customers).
• Manage third party service providers regularly reviewing all working practices and tendering where necessary.
• Ensure KPI targets and measures are met as defined by the client contracts and service level agreements and productivity guides.
Operations Management and Reporting
• Develop processes and procedures for all purchases, shipping and clearing shipments functions and implement upon completion.
Supervising and Handling All the processes and issues related to the freight, customs clearance, import & export processes for all Vodafone shipments air and sea, administratively and financially:
•Reviewing the shipping documents for each shipment with the related PO.
•Making the necessary communications with the different Vendors to enter the required data and modifications on the shipping documents, assuring that such documents meet the Egypt customs laws and regulations.
•Following up with the freight forwarders, couriers, and shipping lines for freight quotations and price lists for inbound and outbound shipments.
•Making the necessary communications with the NTRA, GAFI, GOIC and any other relevant authority or entity.
•Following up on the customs clearance process & cycle, including the approvals of the governmental and non-governmental authorities daily.
•Assuring the applying of the international agreements that supporting in decreasing the customs tariffs for the shipments.
•Reviewing the customs tariffs, duties and taxes for each shipment before the payment of the customs duties and taxes.
•Assuring the correct and accurate customs payments.
•Making customs and legal committees for any disputes occur in the value, kind or origin of the shipments.
•Making customs and legal committees for any disputes occur in customs payments.
•Controlling the customs current accounts of Vodafone (Cairo), Vodafone Data and Alex: mentoring, feeding and settling.
•Distributing the cleared shipments according to the Specified Warehouses.
•Reviewing and making the agent invoices of the customs clearance fees and following up on issuing checks related to that.
Customs Clearance Strategic Activities & Skills.
•Selecting the best ports in Egypt according to the port facilitations & customs clearance lead time.
•Seeking international agreements and national laws and regulations to apply the lower customs duties and tariffs.
•Selecting better freight forwarders, shipping lines in terms of reputation, speed and quality.
•Participating in implementing the plans and programs as per the company goals in order to ensure work development and productivity increase.
•Suggesting plans and programs to improve the effectiveness of the customs clearance section.
Customs Clearance Leadership Activities.
•Leading customs brokers staff and monitoring their activities step by step.
•Leading the customs clearance team and following up on their activities.
Reporting Customs Clearance Activities.
•Report customs clearing activities and prepare any required reports
•Handle periodically the weekly customs reports.
Keep strong filing system for all cleared shipments
•Recording and updating all Vodafone shipments, Air & Sea on Customs Clearance data base.
•Revising and confirming receiving the correct documents with proper filling.
•Having a full record for all filled documents.
Answer call center calls and handle inquiries completely.
•Resolve customer complains and problems.
•Provide product and service information.
•Maintain highest customer satisfaction.
•Support any requested inquiry for the team.
•Month of training in Vodafone Egypt 6 Horizon & Smart Village Branch include:
customer Service techniques, Soft Skills and handling Various Customers Treatments
•Worked as a private translator.
courses: International Procurement and Supply Chain Management, IPSCMI in cooperation with Task Academy, Oct- 2019. •Fundamentals of Procurement, Symbios, May-2019. •Basics in Supply Chain Management, Just Supply Chain in coop. with Apics, 2017. •International Logistics & Supply Chain Course, World Trade Organization, 2017. •International Import & Export Course, World Trade Organization, 2016. •International Freight Course, World Trade Organization, 2014. •International Customs Clearance Course, World Trade Organization, 2012. •Customs Clearance Course, Cairo Customs Institute, Ministry of Finance, 2012. •Career Certificate in Legal Translation (CCLT), AUC, 2013. •Groundwork Certificate in Written Translation (GWT), AUC, 2009. •Professional Certificate in Legal Translation (PCLT), AUC, 2009.
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