Procurement Manager, Indirect Materials
Emerson FZE
Total years of experience :15 years, 9 Months
Summary
Responsible to set up Indirect Materials (IDM) Organization; Develop and implement sourcing strategies to deliver best cost at minimum risk; Responsible to identify, develop, plan and implement IDM Supply Chain continuous improvement programs including supplier rationalization, regionalization, centralization of procurement and sourcing, etc. Single point of contact at Global IDM HQ for MEA driving global synergies.
Responsibilities
Commodity Management:
Commodities include Capital Goods/Material Handling Equipments, MRO, Fleet and Travel Management, Hotels, Facilities Management and Leasing, Temporary Labour, Office Supplies, Packaging, Marketing, Fuel, etc.
▪ Responsible for IDM category management across campus’ in MEA.
▪ Analyze world area IDM spend and develop opportunities funnel.
▪ Lead IDM MEA Organization (x2). Manage virtual team of back office buyers (x2).
▪ Contract Management with aid of Legal to minimize company’s exposure to risk.
Strategy:
▪ Develop sourcing strategy per IDM commodity and manage special projects like Solar Panel Roofing, Travel Program, etc.
▪ Drive & Deploy IDM Governance and Cost Out Program.
▪ Drive regionalization initiatives.
▪ Centralize sourcing and apply supplier rationalization.
Negotiation:
▪ Apply different forms of negotiation and sourcing techniques to maximize value.
▪ Negotiate with suppliers for better payment terms.
▪ Optimize use of electronic tools for procurement and sourcing.
Reporting:
▪ Organize Quarterly Reviews with suppliers and stakeholders for key commodities.
▪ Develop metrics to analyze cost out, process adherence and supplier performance.
▪ Report monthly tracking of KPIs, bridge analysis and contingency plan to stakeholders.
Achievements
▪ Managed IDM spend of $21M to achieve savings of $2.3M at 11% trend YoY.
▪ Recipient of Appreciation Award 2018 for driving cost out strategies in IDM.
▪ Negotiated better payment terms by factor of at least 30 days for Spend $1.7M.
▪ Developed and executed P-Card form of payment, improving payment term by factor of 45 days for spend of $900k.
▪ Contractualized 97% of corporate & facilities spend.
▪ Drove 56% IDM spend through e-Sourcing to align with global policies, bring transparency in negotiation and optimize savings of $1.2M.
▪ Digitalized procurement of commodities - Air Travel, Hotel, Taxi and Office Supplies.
▪ Outsourced transactional procurement activities for cross business spend to back office.
As a member of BPH MEA Team:
Develop and support the MEA deployment of Rosemount Emerson Process
Management ORACLE Single Instance Strategy for SCM.
Identify and resolve Critical-to-Business and System-related issues.
Provide functional expertise, guidance and governance to site.
Analyze MEA site specific processes and requirements and report to global BPH to
propose/Implement SCM system/process enhancements.
Provide expertise and training to other global Rosemount sites as support towards their
implementation projects.
Lead as SCM SME for Cross Track Projects & future improvement projects including
ORACLE enhancements and implementation at other Rosemount sites.
As a member of Local Business Rosemount Team:
EMEA Rosemount Support for Indirect Material, Buyout Sourcing.
EMEA Support in Option Specific Sourcing - Rosemount Organization.
Develop Quality standards/procedures compliant to Rosemount and Emerson Process
Management.
Identify constraints/risks in daily business and work towards mitigation via
improvement projects.
Maintain SCM Business Intelligence Reports to support Buying KPI Dashboard
requirements.
Develop SCM reports based on Business requirements.
Support SCM Management to achieve cost saving, avoidance & containment with regard
to Buyout, Indirect and Direct Material Spend.
As a member of BPH MEA Team:
Develop and support the MEA deployment of Rosemount Emerson Process
Management ORACLE Single Instance Strategy for SCM.
Identify and resolve Critical-to-Business and System-related issues.
Provide functional expertise, guidance and governance to site.
Analyze MEA site specific processes and requirements and report to global BPH to
propose/Implement SCM system/process enhancements.
Provide expertise and training to other global Rosemount sites as support towards their
implementation projects.
Lead as SCM SME for Cross Track Projects & future improvement projects including
ORACLE enhancements and implementation at other Rosemount sites.
As a member of Local Business Rosemount Team:
EMEA Rosemount Support for Indirect Material, Buyout Sourcing.
EMEA Support in Option Specific Sourcing - Rosemount Organization.
Develop Quality standards/procedures compliant to Rosemount and Emerson Process
Management.
Identify constraints/risks in daily business and work towards mitigation via
improvement projects.
Maintain SCM Business Intelligence Reports to support Buying KPI Dashboard
requirements.
Develop SCM reports based on Business requirements.
Support SCM Management to achieve cost saving, avoidance & containment with regard
to Buyout, Indirect and Direct Material Spend.
Supported Business Process Harmonization Project/Organization as MEA Lead for SCM.
Performed Process Mapping (Global and Site) - Current and Future State.
Developed Processes (Site) to support BPH Wave 1 Project - ORACLE Implementation at
MEA sites Dubai and Jubail.
Led ORACLE implementation for SCM Track across various testing cycles.
Developed Business Cutover Strategy - Open Purchase Orders, Backlog Management,
and Blackout Periods.
Trained Users in ORACLE Business System and Processes developed.
Led Buying team for all procurement activities across a supply base encompassing EU,
US, Canada, UK and Asia.
Analyzed and Reported Service Level of Suppliers.
Negotiated for pricing and commercial terms with suppliers.
Supported commercially for sourcing of engineered products.
Developed systematic follow-up process for over-due purchase orders.
Nominated as MEA Supply Chain Representation for Long Term Governance Project - Global Business Process Harmonization for Oracle Implementation - 2013-2014.
Procured back to back finished goods against sales orders.
Sourced direct raw material via MRP tool - analyzing supply & demand of known
customer orders, forecasted orders and safety stock.
Purchased indirect material.
Developed systematic follow-up process for scheduling of purchase orders.
Expedited hot critical orders.
Planned receipt of purchase orders to avoid month end Goods in Transit & Finished Goods.
Negotiated and nominated freight mode and forwarders to save inward freight costs.
Resolved shipping documents discrepancy externally at customs and internally in Finance.
Worked closely with Customer Care & Internal Sales Engineering team to reduce unclean order release to factories.
Focal point of liaising between Supplier, Sales Order Entry, Customer Care and Sales teams.
o Maintained strong supplier relationships.
o Provided user requirements and held discussions with IT development team for new ERP system pertaining to Inventory Aging, Stock Re-order, Pending Purchase Order and Goods-in reports.
o Scheduling of local purchase orders.
o Scheduling of import purchase orders for Lighting Business division:
performed systematic follow-up with over 50 suppliers geographically located across EU, Switzerland, US and Sub-continent
cascaded weekly purchase backlog report to Business divisions.
o Inventory Management:
formulated weekly inventory reports
developed stock re-order reports prior to forecasting and order placement
executed stock correction in ERP system
performed quarterly analysis of inventory across 200+ suppliers with Business divisions and stakeholders.
o Warehouse Management:
pre-alerted warehouse to enable logistics and space management for incoming consignments
prepared stock reports for verification and stock correction.