Purchasing Supervisor
Deboned Restuarant Company
Total years of experience :11 years, 3 Months
Strategic Sourcing: Develop and execute strategic sourcing plans to identify and engage with reliable suppliers, distributors, and vendors for food ingredients, packaging materials, equipment, and other necessary items. This involves conducting market research, evaluating potential suppliers, negotiating contracts, and establishing long-term partnerships.
Supplier Relationship Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers, ensuring effective communication, resolving any issues or conflicts, and conducting regular performance evaluations.
Purchase Planning and Forecasting: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as production, demand planning, and inventory management, to determine procurement needs based on production schedules, sales forecasts, and inventory levels.
Cost Management: Identify cost-saving opportunities and implement cost-effective
purchasing strategies. Negotiate favorable terms, prices, and discounts with suppliers, ensuring competitive pricing while maintaining product quality standards.
Supplier Evaluation and Selection: Conduct thorough evaluations of potential suppliers based on criteria such as quality, reliability, pricing, delivery capabilities, and compliance with regulations and industry standards.
Contract Management: Negotiate and manage contracts with suppliers, including terms and conditions, pricing agreements, delivery schedules, and quality specifications.
Inventory Control: Work closely with inventory management teams to monitor inventory levels, minimize carrying costs, and prevent stock shortages or wastage.
Coordinate with suppliers and internal stakeholders to manage lead times, reorder points, and safety stock levels effectively.
Risk Management: Identify and mitigate risks within the supply chain, such as supply disruptions, quality issues, or regulatory compliance. Develop contingency plans, alternative sourcing options, and risk mitigation strategies to ensure business
continuity.
Continuous Improvement: Regularly assess and optimize procurement processes, procedures, and systems to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve overall supply chain performance. Stay updated on industry trends, best practices, and
emerging technologies to identify opportunities for process improvement
•Appointed as MISHMASH's projects spear header on any LTO Campaigns and oversee
end-to-end Procurement processes.
•Increased Annual savings of 6% for the past 2 consecutive years amounting to over
10, 000KD Accumulatively on packaging items using negotiation tactics.
•Guarantee efficient distribution of products to respective store locations by conducting
efficient Inventory management while collaborating with operations and warehouse teams.
•Restructure internal processes into a more realistic objective in order to streamline item
consumption And prevent shrinkage.
•Facilitate Quarterly visits to the stores and warehouses as an internal assessment on the
quality output.
•Generate monthly reports on forecast and trends on inventory management and
performance Deliverables.
•Using "Power relationship" to develop and enhance internal stakeholders and external
customer Engagement to support business needs.
•Providing alternative solutions to cater urgent needs of the operations by creating a
backup vendors, Communicate with suppliers for any unforeseen shut down of equipment.
•Reconcile all purchase goods along with the invoices and internal requisitions to ensure
proper Accounting of expenses.
•Researched current trends in the market by attending events such as HORECA and
implement in our Organization
• Supported Program Managers in the execution of a project on the Emergency Response Management Systems.
• Managed successful relationships with sub-contractors and associate contractors.
• Worked closely with program managers and project managers to support the successful development and
Implementation of project schedules.
• Facilitated on-time and efficient completion of projects by understanding critical activities and alerts.
• Tracked and reported labor, material, and project costs.
• Prepared, reviewed, and issued project cost and schedule reporting.
• Tracked and updated all deliverable continuously throughout the project and gave feedback to Program Team.
• Supported the project close out process and ensure project closeout in a timely manner.
• Provided quality control for client deliverable to ensure project documents were complete and current.
• Provided support to Engineering and on-site clients.
• Coordinated multi-site work flow processes through procurement, shipping and receiving, staging, and
Delivering to Client
• Fully Responsible for buying Low Voltage Items (LOCAL & Overseas) & Negotiate with client to get maximum profit
• Coordinated and supported the transfer of all equipment and installations to the end user client
• Have some low voltage Purchasing experience:-
o CCTV systems
o Access controls/ Fingerprint
o Desktops & Laptop (Local & Overseas)
• Preparing and Auditing Business Plans inclusive of Budgets on a monthly, quarterly and yearly basis.
Analyzing current and past sales performance
• Reviewing the reports of production in contrast to sales.
• Identifying trends and providing recommendations for improvement
• Taking trips to make the purchase of important inventory as well as maintain inter-country relations with suppliers.
• Portraying products and services to the right audience through the creation of advertising campaigns.
• Taking advantage of the social media, live advertising events, and other publicity media to promote products or services.
• Viable feasibility assessment of the business to check its chances of success.
Presenting to clients concerning company products and services offered
SCIENCE