Assistant Procurement Manager
SAMSUNG
Total years of experience :15 years, 7 Months
• Procurement department processes in Samsung Egypt Visual Dispaly Factory
• Oversee the day to day activities for their team as well as ongoing improvement opportunities, process and punctually reporting KPIs and provide feedback, coaching and motivation to as associates
• Responsible for all procurement of materials supervises the daily activities of the purchasing function to ensure 100% sales and operation plan (SOP) Execution rate
• Responsible for ensuring all efforts are made to acquire raw materials and services in a timely manner
• Ensuring that vendors comply with contracts terms and vendors payments are processed in a timely manner
• Forecast levels of demand based on sales and operation plan (SOP)
• Controlling & Monitor material inventory level (Healthy, Aging and Obsolete) to achieve company KPI's
• Monitor the shipments needed for production and following the customs clearance process with LSP
• Discuss defective or unacceptable raw materials with users, vendors and other to determine cause of problem and take corrective and preventive action
• Supervise, motivate and evaluate staff engaged in procurement activities and setting MBO for team members
• Delegates tasks and responsibilities to employees of the purchasing department
• Control purchasing department budgets
• Analyze market and delivery system in order to assess present and future material availability
• Negotiate and agree contracts, monitoring the quality of service provided
• Develop, lead and execute purchasing strategies
• Perform cost and scenario analysis and benchmarking
• Cutting any waste and unnecessary costs to create a streamlined process and fast production times
• Handling power supply materials for TV at SAMSUNG
• Preparing weekly purchasing plan to ensure the availability of the required materials on time
• Checking with the logistics department the shipment's schedule to ensure the proper delivery
• Create and edit master data of the materials on the system
• Checking the delivery schedule of the materials with other buyers to confirm the availability of all materials on time
• Arranging weekly meeting with Sales team to check the exceptional orders and arrange the delivery with vendor considering (manufacturer & delivery) lead time
• Preparing and reviewing purchasing files, reports and price lists through comparing prices, specifications, and delivery dates in order to determine the best bid among potential suppliers
• Prepare periodic reports & detailed comparison of previous & upcoming schedule quantities
• Preparing monthly reports for aging & Defected materials
• Ensure receiving replacements & credit notes against returns to vendors
• Processing and reviewing the quarterly basis KPI’s
• Handling purchasing and logistics process in the organization
• Getting prices from suppliers, communicating purchase orders, follow up on delivery and receiving items in the W.H
• Receiving & Analyzing the purchase request from the different departments and determine the appropriate method of procurement, quotation, and request for proposal
• Compare prices, specifications, and delivery dates in order to determine the best bid among potential suppliers
• Assessing vendor evaluation scorecard to evaluate the vendors performance and taking corrective actions
• Confirming the received goods along with the supplier’s invoice and the purchase order
• Providing new suppliers matching with the targeted quality, budget, & lead time
• Developed new layout for Pipeline report to measure order fulfillment & vendors' lead time
• Locate suppliers, using sources such as catalogs and the internet, and interview them to gather information about products
• Responding to customer and supplier inquiries about order status, changes, or cancellations
• Preparing estimated costing report for imported materials.
• Following up with the customs for inspection condition and goods specifications.
• Following up with suppliers the required documents for clearance and shipping conditions.
• Searching for the best freight rate & preparing paper work for shipments.
• Following up with the customs brokers the status of each shipment.
• Preparing weekly report of shipments status such as (Under clearance report & pipeline report ).
• Settled all expenses with customs broker and finance team.
• Managing and creating Merchandise Plans.
• Managing the Open to Buy process.
• Managing store level assortments
• Allocation of products to stores
• Creation of seasonal and monthly Store Plans (sales, stock levels, markdowns).
• Tracking purchase orders
• Administrative communication with vendors and various internal staff
• Allocates merchandise to the stores
• Performs basic analytics on store stock levels at an item level
• Pre-allocates for cross docked product
• Post allocates for DC split or warehoused goods