Senior Manager Procurement
KSB Pumps Co, a well known Germany base Multinational engineering company
Total years of experience :24 years, 6 Months
My responsibilities are;
• Controlling the process of all procured items & services.
• Liaison with production & design department for local/export order’s required material purchasing plans.
• Arrangement of imports/local market related items for general and order wise procurement.
• Negotiating price and other commercial terms with vendors/suppliers.
• Most swift and economical air/sea logistic arrangement for consignments movement.
• Looking after Customs clearance and local transportation.
• Vendor development/Training as per job specification and accuracy.
• Develop competency and capacity at vendor premises for customize parts manufacturing.
• Selection of vendor among approved vendor list for order-wise collection of bids invitations and placement of purchase order.
• Study drawings/specification for self rate calculation and to approach the right vendor.
• Analysis received quotation Vs available precision and capacity at vendor’s end, lead time, quality, delivery terms and services to prepare comparative/evaluation statement and purchase order.
• Identify, select and engage with suppliers to ensure competitive market advantages.
• Follow-up with vendors for timely delivery of supplies.
• Manage Supplier Performance to meet or exceed company's' quality, cost and delivery requirements.
• Source new suitable suppliers and vendors of materials, equipment or supplies while re-evaluating current supplier database.
• New supplier hunt exercise to gain best competitive price and quality for cost cutting.
• Administering the online purchasing systems.
• Reviewing all contracts/agreements to achieve ‘best price/best quality’ purchasing.
• Making recommendations & advising senior management on all purchasing issues.
• Successfully implemented ‘Collaborative planning & forecasting’ (CPF) through ‘Business integration’ between all entities of the organization
Other;
• Revamped procurement philosophy by segregating the purchasing items into Strategic, Leverage & Bottleneck items, alternate sourcing, local development of imported items and by introducing ‘spot purchasing’ & ‘contractual purchasing’ techniques
• Conducted various sales analysis, specifying decoupling point (despatch-to-order, make-to-order, assemble-to-order, purchase-to-order, design-to-order ) in the supply chain so as to improve ‘time-to-market’ & operational efficiency
• Kept continuous liaison with all vendors and suppliers to make sure their continuous process improvement and quality so as to match final customer satisfaction level.
During my stay I had following responsibilities to perform:
• Liaison with production department for purchasing plans.
• Review of purchase requests and specification of demanded material for in time required material arrangement.
• Scrutinizing purchase request to segregation items for off shelf and vendors base purchasing plan.
• To ensure that vendors are evaluated and selected on the basis of their ability to meet contractual requirements.
• Draft bids invitations as per demand, reviews/select supplier request as per low price, quality, delivery period and services to prepare purchase order after the approval from finance department and compiles.
• To prepare approved suppliers list with their lead time, agreed rates and enlistment of new suppliers, after scrutinizing his performance and quality of supplied material.
• To ensure about the arrangement of material inspection by material receiving department along with quality inspectors and return of rejected material to the concerned supplier.
• To ensure proper control and continuous monitoring of the approved suppliers.
• Scrutinize supplier’s invoices as per purchase order and make payment schedule as per agreement with suppliers.
• To maintain stock inventory according to company’s policy about re-order point (ROP) and economic order quantity (EOQ). Material receiving and issuing as per demand.
• Negotiating price and terms of products with suppliers.
• Managing, developing & improving the purchasing team.
• Benchmarking performance of the Supply Chain.
• Establishing terms, pricing, quality requirements, delivery, and contracts.
• Reviewing all contracts/agreements to achieve ‘best price/best quality’ purchasing.
• Preparing & processing requisitions, purchase orders & invoices for purchases.
• Giving sourcing input to colleagues to aid business planning & development.
• Maintaining records of supplier contracts, agreements, goods ordered received
PROFESSIONAL COURSES • Supply Chain Management Course From NUST E&ME College Campus Rawalpindi (2011) • Advance Supply Chain Management Course From LMDA Islamabad (2011) • Supply Chain Operations Course From PIM Lahore (2007) • Supply Chain Management Course From CMD Lahore (2006) • Managing Purchasing Operation Course From IIBL Karachi (2004) • Developing Managers For Outstanding Performance Course From IMS Lahore (2006) • Transforming Leadership Potential Course From IMS Lahore (2006) • Internal Quality System Audit Course From SABRO Air-conditioning Internal Training Program Islamabad (2001) • TQM Total Quality Management Implementation Course From PIQC (2001) Graduation (University Degrees) • B.Sc In Double Math & Stat Degree From Punjab University Lahore (1990)