Purchasing Manager
JAIDAH GROUP
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :19 years, 3 أشهر
As Purchasing Manager, main responsibility is to develop and streamline the sourcing strategy for the following three divisions. Jaidah Electrical - Providing electrical products, services and solutions to the public and private sectors. Jaidah Industrial Supplies - Supplying world-class products and after sales service to cater for Qatar's industrial sectors. Prime Security Services - Providing security systems such as video surveillance, ICT/active data networks, A/V systems, access controls, building management systems. Responsibilities:
•Setting up procurement policies, procedures, objectives & KPIs for 3 divisions of Jaidah Group of Companies.
•Structuring of purchasing department
•Classification of products and suppliers
•Inventory/ Supplier drilldown
•Re-negotiation of supplier contracts
•Extension of days payable outstanding by establishing preferred supplier lists and re-negotiating the payment terms.
•Builds and maintains relationships with vendors.
•Creation of General Contracts for products and services outsourced. Key Achievements:
•Developed sourcing strategies.
•Overall inventory reduction by 29%
•Slow/Non-moving inventory reduction by 47%
•Increase in days payable outstanding by 7%
During the span of 3 years, managed to establish specific parameters which are suitable for quantifying and defining supply chain performance of the organization. Successfully contributed in continual growth, evolution, development, and success of the organization's supply, fulfilment, and delivery efforts and in improving supply chain performance. Could able to spot inefficiencies within the ecosystem and managed to capitalize the current strengths and established goals that helped the supply chain scale, especially when the country was facing the air, sea and land blockade. Responsibilities
•Maintaining a perfect order rate to make sure the ability to deliver orders incident-free to iron out issues such as inaccuracies, damages, delays, and inventory losses and for customer retention and to improve loyalty levels.
•Optimize the inventory level to the right Inventory Velocity (IV)
•100% compliance on statutory/legal regulations.
•Grading, classifying and evaluating the suppliers based on their performance
•Setting and maintaining right inventory days of supply.
•Control and customize workflows for smooth processes in purchasing, manufacturing, inward and outward deliveries.
•Strategies operations across the supply chain to eliminate the risk of manual errors, poor communications which are detrimental to the business.
•Implementing Quality, Health, Safety and Environment management systems policy covering the entire supply chain from suppliers to customers and the proper and efficient use of products in accordance with agreed specifications. Achievements
•Effectively managed the supply constrains developed due to blockade imposed to Qatar by other GCC countries, with zero down time in manufacturing unit.
•Defined and implemented general terms and conditions of procurement.
As Procurement Manager, gained exposure in vendor selection process, reviewing and managing contractual obligations of international suppliers in accordance with the agreed terms and conditions of the purchase orders and in vendor evaluation. Responsibilities
•Strategically lead the development of the procurement planning for both raw materials and trading items based on the agreed terms and conditions.
•Select and prioritize strategic sourcing initiatives across categories and organizations.
•Monitor the negotiations with the vendors for commercial, technical and contractual obligations.
•Review and manage the contractual obligations of vendors and track the adherence.
•Investigate, find out root cause and set preventive actions for product returns from customers and manage the claims.
•Qualifying Vendors for Vendor Management by defining and designing the principles for supplier selection, performance criteria.
•Build new sourcing options.
•Plan and monitor annual and long-term strategic targets and cost saving objectives.
•Lead improvement initiatives in procurement/supply chain periodically.
•Develop risk management programs to ensure continuity of supply in emergency scenarios Achievements
•Defined and implemented various control tools and procedures to achieve a lean stock concept. eg. classification of products based on ABC/XYZ analysis and min/max planning.
•Zero down time in production plants due to lack of raw materials for any reason whatsoever.
Responsible for all aspects of warehouse & logistics management, including demand planning and forecasting, reviewing all the logistics contracts, inviting new tenders yearly basis and budgetary controls as well as development of internal control systems, policies and procedures for the entire warehousing and logistics operations of the business. Part of Executive management team also responsible for providing leadership in decision making, planning and strategies formulations of the business. Responsibilities
•Create policies and procedures for warehouse and logistics activities.
•Resolve problems concerning transportation, logistics systems, imports or exports, or customer issues.
•Implement logistics management processes, such as selection, qualification, or performance evaluation.
•Monitor product import or export processes to ensure compliance with local regulatory or legal requirements
•Ensure carrier compliance with company policies or procedures for product transit or delivery.
•Plan or implement improvements to internal or external logistics systems or processes.
•Analyze the financial impact and propose logistics process changes, such as routing, shipping modes, product volumes or mixes, or carriers.
•Establish procedures and facilitate annual inventory count
•Ensuring goods are stored safely as per the storage requirements recommended by respective product manufacturers and local government regulations.
•Maintaining health and safety standards as per the QHSE policy.
Held full accountability for planning, controlling and directing all purchasing and inventory control activities. Assess supply/inventory options in order to determine best sourcing solutions. Interact extensively with suppliers, ensuring full service and satisfaction acquired. Maintain compliance with organizational standards and objectives. Responsibilities
•Develop source agreements that contributed to increase profits by standardizing contracts and improving purchasing programs.
•Overall control of purchasing activities for trading items, raw materials and consumables for production, stores and all other departments.
•Monthly review of inventory for trading items and raw materials to finalize quantities of required stock replenishment orders.
•Reduce dead stock through program initiation, proactive management, effective internal and external communication, and persuasive follow-up.
•Ensuring sufficient physical raw material stocks to avoid shortages for daily mass production
•Develop and implement all necessary policies and procedures to ensure that the purchasing function operates effectively
•Direct and control purchasing staff to ensure that they are well motivated and trained and that they carry out their responsibilities to the required standards
•Negotiate contracts with the suppliers who meet the company's requirements to secure the most favorable terms of business for the company
•Keep all contracts for the supply of goods and services under review to ensure that they are being carried out effectively and renegotiate terms, where necessary
•Maintains purchasing budget to ensure the effective monitoring and control of all purchases
Passed out as semester top
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