Procurement Specialist
Al Hayat Foodstuff
Total years of experience :17 years, 10 Months
Facilitate sourcing, forecasting, reporting and purchasing requirements. Proactively control the order cycle, analyze market conditions to confirm current and future stock availability, prepare and present market analysis reports to the senior management team. Enforce and adhere to global procurement and materials policies.
• Prepare Purchase Orders according to the company policy and forward to the management for approval.
• Track delivery lead time from items in order to ensure that the expected time of arrival dates are being met.
• Analyze MRP requirements daily, issue RFQ's and follow the process through to order placement.
• Arrange quotes, evaluated vendors’ quality, reliability and price competitiveness, negotiated and awarded contracts within specified spending limits, and developed new qualified sources of supply.
• Compare costs and evaluate the quality and suitability of supplies, materials, and equipment
• Source, identify and negotiate with alternative/new suppliers for the best value, service and quality to meet the organizational requirements and expectation.
• Utilize sound decision-making skills to maintain efficiency and productivity, resolve various logistic related issues, and to overcome difficulties.
• Verify the origin and specifications of purchase requests to ensure the authenticity and correctness of the materials required.
• Arranged tender and quotes, evaluated vendors’ quality, reliability and price competitiveness, negotiated and awarded contracts within specified spending limits, and developed new qualified sources of supply.
• Instigated and enforced the compliance of company global procurement and materials policies, build supplier rapport, and negotiated with strategic suppliers.
• Responsible for overall operation of supply chain fundamentals and analyzing inventories to determine the overstock limits, dead moving/slow moving stages, reduce expire stages and stock damages for optimizing the company overall goal.
• Evaluate freight costs and the inventory costs associated with transit times in order to ensure that costs are appropriate.
• MGT reporting.
Effectively supervise logistics, import-export, freight, customs clearance process. Understand the needs, urgency, identifying, short listing, selecting and acquiring suitable services from a vendor and freight forwarder, competitive bidding or tendering process while ensuring timely delivery in the right quality and quantity. Proactively control the order cycle, analyze market conditions to confirm current and future stock availability, follow through all commercial activities including for import process, duty exemption from MOCI and fulfill all statutory and regulatory bindings for outsourcing.
• Managing and overseeing all operation areas of logistics management, forecasting, order management, export-import order cycle, shipping, documentation as per country’s law, customs clearance and Transportation.
• Expedite and control lead time of delivery of all local and international orders.
• Reduced transit time by 20% through the development the relationship of freight companies and minimize transshipment of containers.
• Conduct regular meetings with internal and external stakeholders to review locations, and logistics performances and to develop action plans to ensure innovation targets are met
• Keep track of quality, quantity, stock levels, delivery times, transport costs and efficiency with the assistance of the team
• Coordinate with shipping line, forwarders, clearing agent to get CAN, collection DO, Bayan submit & container loading upon inspection of materials.
• Taking proactive action on delivery schedule based on warehouse capacity and plan.
• Sourced, identify and negotiate with alternative/new suppliers for the best value, service and quality to meet the organizational requirements and expectation.
• Management of the operational area, including negotiation and control of all contracts with third parties (ex. Custom clearance, warehouse, agents), banks, legal documentation (International and national contracts) and others.
• Liaising with customs, port authorities, shipping companies, government authorities, agents, supplier etc.
• Analyze the logistics issues and find new solutions as required. Quick decision making for effective Logistics and Supply Chain Management with cost effectiveness.
• Forged relationships with freight companies to minimize the transshipment of containers, reduced transit time by 20%.
• Supervised the completion of all documentation checking with necessary conversion of weights, sizes, values and quality standards interpretations between importing and exporting systems and territories.
• Evaluated freight costs and the inventory costs associated with transit times in order to ensure that costs are appropriate.
• Regular communicated with Custom office to updated customs rules and health department for getting health approval of all imported items.
• Management Repotting.
Proactively control the order cycle, analyze market conditions to confirm current and future stock availability, follow through all commercial activities including L/C’s, customs, C&F, insurance, PSI and shipping documents verification for import process.
• Responsible for local and international logistics operations to ensuring-monitoring stock levels.
• Manage import export order cycles accordance with organization policy and procedures.
• Arrange duty exemption of all imported materials of MOCI as per approved list.
• Check all draft shipping documents before attestation and advise shipper to prepare documents as per Qatar customs rules.
• Communicated with suppliers regarding their supply needs & resolve all kinds of procurement related problems and follow up the suppliers for timely shipment.
• Follow up with vendors to receive all original documents before arrival of shipments at our port.
• Coordinate and follow up on port clearance to avoid any demurrage and storage charges.
• Evaluate freight costs and the inventory costs associated with transit times in order to ensure that costs are appropriate.
• Coordinate with supplier and Accounts & Finance department to follow up payment.
• MGT Reporting
Oversee logistical control process including international import-export & order management, stock & warehouse management, transport management, reduce overstock and maintained excellent relationship with Middle East and international suppliers, negotiation with suppliers and coordinated the logistics of international shipments including freight and custom charges.
•Analyzed the logistics issues and find new solutions as required. Quick decision making for effective Logistics and Supply Chain Management with cost effectiveness.
•Sourced, identify and negotiate with alternative/new suppliers for the best value, service and quality to meet the organizational requirements and expectation.
•Management of the operational area, including negotiation and control of all contracts with third parties (ex. Custom clearance, storages, agents/BID), banks, legal documentation (Int. and national contracts) and others.
•Followed-up all commercial activities (L/C’s, customs, C&F, insurance, PSI, shipping documents verification etc. for import process) by fulfilling all statutory & regulatory bindings for outsourcing.
•Conducted in depth discussion with suppliers to generate higher discounts and reduce freight and payment charges which lead to profit.
•Reduced transit time by 20% through the development the relationship of freight companies and minimize transshipment of containers.
•Supervised the completion of all documentation checking with necessary conversion of weights, sizes, values and quality standards interpretations between importing and exporting systems and territories.
•Sourced & maintained rational stocks of all non-inventory materials and monitoring for smooth supply of required goods.
•Regular communicated with Custom office to updated customs rules and health department for getting health approval of all imported items.
•Controlled the order cycle.
Entered into negotiations to influence and agree the procurement process, supplier evaluation, contract execution, floating inquiries, material sources, export and import documentation. Risk assessed major contracts, identified issues and offered solutions for discussions and decisions. Provided oversight for all aspects of import, clearance, supply and pipeline planning, distribution and replenishment, delivery and routing.
•Achieved successful negotiations and built mutually beneficial supplier relationships and contracts to deliver significant cost savings for the business.
•Sourced of new products and liaison with foreign suppliers.
•Worked and Managed all custom duty, tax and vat related matters
•Maintained up to date record for incoming and outgoing shipments.
•Worked as a head of company procurement both for local and international
•Supplier selection, enlistment and good relation maintained with all suppliers.
•Checked all documents required by country law and regulation.
•Regular communicated with clearing agent regarding container clear, duty payment, and transpiration arrangement.
•Supplier database maintained with all related information.
•Monitored all consignment for shipment schedules, letter of credit, documentation, customs declaration, local transport arrangement and up to warehouse.
•On time management reporting with update information.
Welcomed customers to the store and assisted them with their purchases. Handled queries and complaint efficiently and professionally.
Provided support to the Purchasing and logistics Manager to arrange goods and equipment purchases. Analyzed requisitions, liaised with vendors to obtain product and service information including price and delivery schedules. Sourced and built agreements with international suppliers critically reviewed and qualified suitable suppliers. Devised and delivered the annual and monthly Materials Requirement Plan (MRP) based on the sales forecast and marketing plan.
•Ensure supply of materials from both local & overseas sources.
•Handling all kinds of L/C related issues, banking functions and documentation.
•Review L/C terms and conditions including documents.
•Maintaining liaison with PSI companies.
•Maintaining liaison with C&F agent for timely clearance of the materials.
•Drill down the inventory level of the material in line with company policy.
•Ensure OTIF & reduce CCFOT loss of assigned materials.
•Manage the movement of products in accordance with organizational policy and procedure.
•Ensures that all purchasing is in compliance with regulations and laws related to purchasing practices and in accordance with standard practices.
•Manage/liaise with stock control, warehousing and distribution activities
•Keep close contact with production department and ensure zero interruption in production
•Analyzes current procurement activities and recommends improvement through more efficient procurement methods, quantity discounts, standardization, value analysis and cooperative purchasing.
•Prepares reports to ensure compliance with related laws and regulations.
Passing Year 2005.
Passing Year 2003
Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC)
