Manoj Menon, Senior Procurement Manager

Manoj Menon

Senior Procurement Manager

M/s. Baklawa Made Better Sugar Candies Manufacturing LLC

Location
United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
Education
Diploma, System Analyst
Experience
27 years, 6 Months

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Total years of experience :27 years, 6 Months

Senior Procurement Manager at M/s. Baklawa Made Better Sugar Candies Manufacturing LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since October 2017

Responsible for purchasing all items related to factory production like various Agro Commodities ( Cocoa Products ) Raw Real Chocolates, Compound Chocolates and Packaging materials for Chocolates and Arabic Sweets etc.
Acting a key role in cost reduction by negotiating prices with the Suppliers. Hedging of commodity prices by daily monitoring of Market fluctuations. Keeping up the quality, maintaining ISO and HACCP Standards. Got special training in EPICOR for the Purchasing Module. Generating reports for Stock Analysis and Ageing Report. Maintaining Safety Stocks, Reorder Level, maintaining and updating approved Vendors list, Inventory control by reducing the stock level as minimum as possible, Preparing Annual Contracts with the suppliers.

Achievements: Hedging the prices of major commodities and thereby reducing the risk of price increase of product. Identify locally purchased high value products and import directly from the source for cost reduction. Further, I could manage to reduce the price of Ingredients & Additives by adding alternate Suppliers from different sources and thus manage to save AED. 2 Million for the Company in the year 2017 - 2018. Reduced the Inventory of Local Packaging Materials from 1 month to 5 days and thus reduced the working capital of the Company by 2% of overall cost of Packaging. Just In Time Policy was introduced in the company for Local Material Procurement.

Procurement Manager at M/s. International Beverage & Filling Industries
  • United Arab Emirates
  • September 2010 to July 2017

Responsible for purchasing all items related to factory production like various Seasonal Raw materials and Packaging materials for Juice and Carbonated Drinks production etc.
Acting a key role in cost reduction by negotiating prices with the Suppliers. Hedging of commodity prices by daily monitoring of Market fluctuations. Keeping up the quality, maintaining ISO and HACCP Standards. Got special training in SAP for the Purchasing Module ( MM). Generating reports for Stock Analysis and Ageing Report. Maintaining Safety Stocks, Reorder Level, maintaining and updating approved Vendors list, Inventory control by reducing the stock level up to the minimum possible, Preparing Annual Contracts with the suppliers. Additionally coordinating with the clearing agent to clear the Import consignments in time.

Achievements: Major achievement was that I managed to Sea Freight the Raw Material which was usually Air freight by the Company and thus manage to save a million AED for the Company in 2015. Further, I could manage to reduce the price of Ingredients & Additives by adding alternate Suppliers from different sources and thus manage to save AED. 1 Million for the Company in the year 2012 - 2013. Reduced the Inventory of Local Packaging Materials from 1 month to 10 days and thus reduced the working capital of the Company by 2% of overall cost of Packaging. Just In Time Policy was introduced in the company for Local Material Procurement.

Purchase Officer at M/s. Aujan Industries Co
  • United Arab Emirates
  • September 2004 to June 2010

Manufacturers of RANI, HANI, VIMTO JUICES & BARBICAN NON ALCOHOLIC BEER

at M/s. Masafi Mineral Water Company
  • United Arab Emirates
  • July 1996 to August 2004

Purchase In-Charge

Responsible for purchasing all items related to factory production like spare parts of machines, accessories, Raw material and Packaging Material of Mineral Water production etc. And also responsible for disposal of various scraps developed during production activities
Acting a key role in cost reduction by negotiating prices with the Suppliers. Keeping up the quality, maintaining ISO Standards. Got special training in Oracle 11i for the Purchasing Module. Generating reports for Stock Analysis. maintaining safety stocks, reorder level and updating approved Vendors list.

I was also responsible for innovating the staff quarters in our factory premises by choosing the right quality materials with cost effective manner with the help of our civil engineers.

Education

Diploma, System Analyst
  • at NIIT
  • March 1996

Bachelor's degree, Physics
  • at Karnataka ( Mangalore ) University
  • January 1994

Specialties & Skills

Cost Control
Inventory Control
Trade Negotiations
Supply Chain Management
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
COST CONTROL
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS MANAGEMENT
NEGOTIATION
PACKAGING
PURCHASING
QUALITY

Social Profiles

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Tamil
Expert

Training and Certifications

Management Development Programe (Training)
Training Institute:
Al Batha Holding
Date Attended:
March 2016
Duration:
16 hours

Hobbies

  • Travelling, Cooking