Purchasing Manager
AbdulWahed Bin Shabib Hospitalities L.L.C- Grand Buffet Restauran
Total years of experience :12 years, 3 Months
Wrote standard operating procedures for the purchasing team.
Contacted location managers and department supervisors to assess outlet
requirements.
Performed monthly reconciliation of open purchasing orders in ERP.
Coordinated paperwork, updated spreadsheets and maintained
permanent records for price comparisons, supplier evaluations, supplier
contracts, supplier documentation and worked on supplier evaluation
questionnaire.
Managing daily purchasing activities, supervising staff, and allocating
tasks. Verification of item/service prices prior to sending PO to suppliers.
Managing supplier relations and negotiating annual contracts, prices,
timelines, etc. Also evaluated and approved conditions for issuing and
awarding bids.
Ensuring that all procured items meet the required quality standards and
specifications.
Brought approx 25% reduction in cost of raw material purchase, frozen
item purchase (sea food, poultry, meat items), fruits & vegetable purchase
as well as Packaging and consumables purchase during this period.
Resolving grievances with vendors, contractors, and suppliers and ensuring
timely payment to suppliers.
Assessed current material availability; predicted future availability based
on the market, delivery systems, and other variables.
Conducted interviews for hiring of new Purchasing staff
Worked with Inventory team to identify slow moving items and working with
other outlets to use items before expiry
Oversaw and managed purchasing of local Packaging materials, Raw
Materials, Consumables by creating Purchase Orders in SAP and co-
ordinating with QAHSE team and Stores team for their requirements
Worked with stores team to plan for buffer stock and negate any OOS
issues
Worked regularly with local vendors in negotiating prices from time to time
and improving credit terms
Worked with internal departments such as finance, sales, and operations
to resolve issues and concerns
Brought about 5% savings in Raw Material purchase in Q3 and Q4 of 2021
as well as 5% savings in consumables and packaging items in the same
period. Brought 7% savings in Q1 of 2022 for both Raw Material Purchase as
well as Consumables/Disposables.
Introduced and brought in new vendors with good credit terms,
negotiated credit limits and in turn brought good savings for the company
Tracking orders & continuously following up with suppliers to ensure delivery
was done on time.
Worked with Quality Assurance for inspection upon delivery to ensure
orders are filled correctly and that goods meet specifications
Oversaw purchases for MENA region like KSA, Kuwait, Egypt for their regular
purchases like consumables, raw materials and packaging items and
scheduled delivery to said region
Analyze invoices to ensure accuracy of goods delivered post GRN. Also
ensured invoices were processed on time and in turn suppliers were paid
on time
Responsible for analyzing end to end solutions to support and build sound
working relationships with internal stakeholders and Senior Management
Conducting regular market analysis and bench marking exercises,
identifying market trends and monitoring related developments
Micromanage spend analysis to deep dive on the cost saving analysis
Also managing direct, indirect Procurement activities, CAPEX while working
with plant manufacturing operations, logistics, marketing and demand
planning department.
Initiating corrective actions on bad materials and following through the
resolution with suppliers
Oversaw and managed purchasing of local Packaging materials,
Ingredients for Production use, Managed Fresh Fish Imports on a weekly
basis, purchase of Engineering items for new factory in DIP including
electronics, machined parts etc by creating Purchase Orders in ERP system
Introduced and brought in new vendors with good credit terms and in turn
good savings for the company
Good Negotiation skills which helped in ensuring existing suppliers supplied
products at good rates.
Co-ordinated with Demand Planner in ensuring OOS issues were minimized
Absolutely minimized disposal issues with regards to Fresh Fish Imports by
working with Production, Sales and Supply chain team
Helped in preparing user training instructions for online purchase
requisitions as well as outlining the format for Purchase orders in SAP HANA
for the company (prior to SAP Go Live in Magenta)
Developing and managing supplier relationships including supplier
performance.
Carry out delivery performance and quality performance analysis
Forecasted ordering requirements on a frequent basis and contacted
suppliers directly
Checked stock details frequently along-with stock availability and ensured
stocks were depleted on FIFO basis
Did local purchases within UAE and contacted suppliers directly
Planned & scheduled timely pickup as well as arrival of shipments via air,
sea, courier etc with freight forwarders
Regularly negotiated freight rates and helped lower freight costs in Q3 &
Q4 of 2019
Worked with Brand Managers to help secure better discounts on
respective beverage brands
Checked and informed beverage department on short/near expiry items,
along-with suggestions to minimize wastage
Worked with import/export team to have items cleared upon arrival in
Dubai (air, sea, courier)
Did deep dive analysis for low sales, lost sales as well as prepared sales
report for quarterly and half yearly basis for all beverage brands
Was recognized in 2019 for helping in minimizing wastage of beverage
products by 70%
Received & Placed customer orders in “Navision”, company ERP software
Handled clients in both Abu Dhabi & Dubai division and ensured delivery of
items on time
Recognized & Selected by HORECA Manager to effectively co-ordinate
the stock levels for fruits & vegetable department
Checked stocks on a regular level and worked with quality team to
remove/dispose expired stocks
Informed sales, managers, customer service on near expiry stocks as well
as suggestions to deplete the stock
Worked with store keepers to correct and fix stock level numbers in system
whenever there were discrepancies
Helped in identifying slow moving items and depleting it before expiry.
Supported and helped Amazon.com Sellers with creating and setting up their
selling accounts, selling items, assisted with customer centric issues regarding
sales.
Assisted sellers on how to sell using the Fulfillment by Amazon Feature and all
related queries
Effectively assisted seller queries via email correspondence and through
phone calls
Maintained a good positive response rate for effective Seller satisfaction from
and lowest reopen rate for May
Recognized for having a high positive
response rate(high seller satisfaction) of 98% and 93.5%(success rate) for the
month of August and September.
Architecture and Planning Group (APG), Abu Dhabi
Designed, managed, and implemented Windows server 2003 R2, storage
and network infrastructure solutions
Configured Users emails in Microsoft Outlook 2007 and provided
troubleshooting solutions for any arising issues
Daily system monitoring, verifying integrity and availability of hardware,
server resources, systems and key processes, reviewed system and
application logs, and verified completion of scheduled jobs such as
backups
Managed and monitored DHCP and allocated IP addresses through it
Manage user, computer environment by using Group Policy as well as
creating, changing, and deleting user accounts as per request
Abu Dhabi
Provided trouble shooting solutions along with data entry and hardware
support
Installing and setting up company softwares
Involved with the administration aspects of the company, preparing
quotations and LPO's and also managed the accounting of the company
Receiving job inquiries from clients and forwarding them to sales
Checking prices with sales & manager before preparation quotations and
forwarding to clients
HIGH SCHOOL:
Graduated
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