SYED ABDEEN ABDULLA, Purchasing Manager CAPEX / Indirect Material & Service

SYED ABDEEN ABDULLA

Purchasing Manager CAPEX / Indirect Material & Service

ALMARAI Co

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Master's degree, Business and corporate Law
Experience
27 years, 11 Months

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Total years of experience :27 years, 11 Months

Purchasing Manager CAPEX / Indirect Material & Service at ALMARAI Co
  • Saudi Arabia
  • My current job since February 2011

Responsible for Order Placement Timing, Supply / Demand Alignment, Material Replenishment and Supplier Performance. Continuously monitoring, evaluating and improving supplier performance. Sourcing the most affordable equipment for the company’s manufacturing process. Budget review based on future projects. Reviewing tenders and bids. Controlling the purchasing budget. Ensuring the timely supply of all required equipment. Delivering cost savings for the company. Managing the procurement supplier relationships for the company. Core member in approving CAPEX for the new projects & evaluation. Developing sourcing strategies. Coordinating in preparing high quality tender documentation. Regularly contacting suppliers to renegotiate prices. Resolving disputes and claims with vendors and suppliers. Keeping all supplier programs current and accurate. Delegating projects and tasks to junior staff. Promoting best practice across the company. Involved in writing up contracts and the terms of sales. Working to create and promote a safe working environment. Involved in selling off depreciated CAPEX equipment. Overseeing staff training. Assisting team members in tracking of import consignment with self-developed tracking sheets.

Purchase Manager at DUBAI PRECAST COMPANY
  • United Arab Emirates
  • April 2009 to December 2010

Roles and Responsibilities
Liaising as well as coordinating with the purchase department overseeing the smooth execution of all the Purchasing Department operations.
Devising as well as implementing various independent decisions; supervise subordinates and handling all the required coordination.
Handling a gamut of assignments pertaining to soliciting bids, securing written as well as telephone quotations from vendors, analyzing bids, performing value and cost analysis and selecting products and vendors.
Checking on the performance of purchasing clerical functions, including correspondence, vendor list preparation, vendor applications & updates, bid and specification preparation, etc.
Utilizing the personal computer as well as spreadsheet software to perform tabulation.
Interpreted and explained purchasing policies and procedures to other departments and to vendors.

Key Highlights
Played a vital role in tracking order and contracts for compliance as well as performance; recommending the cancellation of orders as well as contracts for non-compliance and non-performance.

Senior Procurement Officer at Amana Steel Building Construction Co
  • United Arab Emirates
  • August 2007 to March 2009
Purchase Officer at Emirates Ceramic Factory
  • United Arab Emirates
  • October 2001 to June 2007

ISO 9002 certified Co.).

Roles and Responsibilities
Carrying out the timely delivery of merchandising operations through proper monitoring of the vendor, distribution centre as well as merchant team.
Taking care of the markdown process, communicate variances to the buyer.
Conducting the business recaps with the direction from the buyer.
Developing vendor for raw material & packaging material
Overseeing the movement of raw material to the production department as well as suggesting recommendations to maximize performance.
Preparing pre-market analysis & communicating issues to stores using appropriate communication channels.

Purchase Officer at Al Sahel Contracting Co.
  • United Arab Emirates
  • May 1998 to December 2000
Purchase Assistant at Emirates Trading Agency (ETA – M&E)
  • United Arab Emirates
  • July 1995 to April 1998

Roles and Responsibilities
Performing the basic accounting as well as bookkeeping along with the procurement and department funds for the project department accounting staff.
Acting as a SPOC; liaising with the vendors for orders, bids, specifications, tracking; maintaining documentation as well as performing various related transactions.
Generating reports as well as coordinating the approval process for major purchases in conjunction with the Project Administrator.

Key Highlights
Played a vital role in performing accounts receivable as well as payable tasks; audited travel and hosting.
Successfully maintained the departmental procurement policy and procedure manual & recorded databases.

Education

Master's degree, Business and corporate Law
  • at Symbiosis International University
  • March 2016

Post Graduate in Business & Corporate Law

Master's degree, business administration ( Supply Chain management)
  • at EIILM UNIVERSITY, Sikkim
  • March 2012
Bachelor's degree, marketing management
  • at Madurai Kamaraj University
  • March 1997

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Bachelor's degree, business administration
  • at Madurai Thiagarajar Arts College, Madurai
  • January 1993

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Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Procurement
Mechanical Desktop
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
DELIVERY
DIRECTING
DOCUMENTATION
ISO 9002
MARKET ANALYSIS
MERCHANDISING
PACKAGING
PROCUREMENT
PURCHASING

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
Hindi
Expert

Memberships

United States Green Building Council
  • Active Member
  • January 2000
Project MAnagement Institute
  • Member & Partciipant
  • January 2000
Gersen Lehman Group
  • Managment Consultant
  • January 2011

Training and Certifications

CERTIFIED INTERNATIONAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGER (Certificate)
SAP PURCHASING MODULE (Training)
Training Institute:
Michael Management Of Institute
EFFECTIVE NEGOTIATION & PURHCASING SKILLS, RETHINKER-UK (Certificate)
SAFETY TRAINING PROGRAM (Training)
Training Institute:
SAFE STAR COMPANY, DUBAI
UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE AND CONFLICTS (Training)
Training Institute:
ALMARAI
INTERNAL QUALITY AUDITOR, SGS DUBAI (Certificate)
Purchasing & Warehouse Operation (Training)
Training Institute:
LEEDS - Dubai
PURCHASING & MATERIAL MANAGEMENT (Training)
Training Institute:
IIM BANGLORE- ETA DUBAI CAMPUS
FIRST AID PROGRAM (Training)
Training Institute:
DUBAI MUNICIPALITY
KAIZEN TRAINING PROGRAM (Training)
Training Institute:
ANNA UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI