North East Africa Projects, Services & Non-Production Senior Purchasing Expert ( Section Head)
Schneider Electric Egypt Co
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :23 years, 5 أشهر
Projects
In the tender phase, provide estimates for purchased parts costs and time
delivery and collects technical, financial data for the project manager.
In the tender phase, build solutions with suppliers, ensure preliminary
negotiations, collect commodity purchases prices to better define price of
supplies.
Responsible for prepare the tender phase, to keep an actuated vision of local
supplier markets possibilities, costs and lead times.
Optimizes all procurements of a project, (quality, cost and delivery) in
compliance with the procurement policies of the project and with the customer’s
contracts, in order to keep or improve the margin and manage the risks.
Responsible for all purchases involved in the project until the end of the
"contractual obligations of providers" with a specific focus on risk management.
Manages on site services, Legal and security agreement with relevant
suppliers, ensures Customers satisfaction.
Strategic Sourcing
Review existing supplier bases to meet the forecast demand for supplies and
services & plan the strategic sourcing activities.
Evaluate the RFP response and conduct negotiations following the Strategic
Sourcing Guidelines of the company
Finalize approved suppliers by categories, prepare supply contracts and
prepare price authorization for use by the concerned once the supply contract is
executed.
Constantly look for new sources of supplies (E- sourcing), evaluate the new
sources and keep approved suppliers list updated covering all categories of
commodities items.
Maintain Critical Suppliers/Critical items list and constantly work for ensuring
smooth supplies always by resorting to alternate sources of supplies
Evaluate the price trends, analyze the implication of the price trends and send
out monthly, quarterly, half yearly and annual reports to higher management
suggesting the action plans.
Work closely with The RCM (Regional Commodity Manager) to identify the
strategic sourcing plan for the region (Egypt, North of Sudan & Libya).
Purchasing
Direct and manage purchasing activities from beginning to end.
Meet purchasing and contracts financial objectives by costing forecasted
requirements; furnishing contract expense information for the annual budget;
scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
Ensure that the supplier’s deliveries are followed up through the various stages
of inbound logistics (freight forwarding, customs clearance and local
transportation)
Consistently follow up with the procurement and Logistics Teams for updating
the arrival of planned materials in time..
Negotiate favorable lead time with suppliers to meet all requirements from
materials and services
Ensure that the Smart Purchase and other KPIs are met as set out
Using MRP system (SAP) to issue PR, RFQ & PO.
Optimization of shipping cost by following up clearance dept., customs and
inland transportation till the goods arrived to the warehouse.
Guides purchasing actions by developing and enforcing purchasing policies
and procedures.
Responsible for all communication with foreign & local suppliers including
phone calls, faxes and emails.
Develop and maintain relationship with new and/or current suppliers
Carry on purchases researches and analysis suppliers to identify and approach
potential suppliers.
Review Requisition Request, and Specification before processing Purchase
Order or Contract.
Draft bidding documents (i.e., request for quotations, letter of invitation for
bidding, technical and financial proposals and contracts)
Following up purchasing representative (buyers).
Ensure that all quotation prices are reasonable.
Ensure that all needed from spare parts for productions and maintenance
are available and in timely manner.
Prepare and issue purchase order, contracts, and compile the necessary
supporting documents and follow-up on work schedule and payments and trace
undelivered shipments
Following up reports about inventory control from warehouse dept
Ensure that all the documents of shipments are accepted by us and customs.
Following up clearance dept., customs and inland transportation to be sure
that the goods arrived to the store. .
Make sure that claims on defective goods and we guarantee all rights with
suppliers.
Develop and maintain overall relationship with other departments in the Factory.
Responsible for all communication with suppliers including phone calls, faxes and emails.
Responsible for setting & implementing the purchasing strategies for the Factory.
Develop and maintain relationship with new and/or current suppliers.
Carry on purchases researches and analysis suppliers to identify and approach potential
suppliers.
Ensure that all the needed materials for production are available and in timely manner.
Following up reports about inventory control from warehouse dept
Ensure that all the documents of shipments are accepted by us and customs.
Following up clearance dept., customs and inland transportation to be sure that the
goods arrived to the store.
Following up reports from Q.C. dept. a bout quality of materials.
Make sure that claims on defective goods and we guarantee all rights with suppliers.
Develop and maintain overall relationship with other depts. in the Factory.
Responsible for all communication related to materials between production
dept. & import dept.
Calculation of all needed quantity for clients’ orders from basic material of fabric
and yarn.
Doing all purchase orders to local and foreign suppliers of fabric and yarn.
Make all reservation orders to store of available materials.
Responsible for releasing all production orders to production dept.
Ensure that all production orders including Calculation of materials needed to
produce the orders.