Responsible to manage all procurement for Projects related goods and services. This role manages the daily operations of procurement with the help of procurement staff, under the guidance of Supply Chain Head. Responsible to monitor stock in hand and to maintain a high level of coordination with all internal and external stake holders.
• Identification of all requirements in requisition for purchase issued by Project Management Team.
• Collaborate with key persons to ensure clarity of the specifications and expectations of the company or client
• Responsible for planning and buying materials, parts, supplies and equipment in a timely and cost effective way; timely manner while maintaining appropriate quality standards and specifications.
• Manage purchasing cycle including request for quotation, PO creation, PO follow up & goods receipt.
• Prepare comparison statement for received quotations.
• Reviews a monthly status reports for the incoming and pending orders to initiate actions as necessary.
• Negotiates with vendors the prices, availability of product/service, quality and delivery date.
• Working on achieving cost saving targets.
• Establish delivery terms, time and stages of inspection for the supply with Project Management Team.
• Liaise with Accounts Payable Department to ensure accurate and timely payment of invoices, as necessary for the business with the supplier.
• Manage activities related to purchasing, inventory control, warehousing, dispatching or receiving.

Responsibilities in this position include the purchasing of raw material for chocolate factory and for trading. In my current role I am responsible to review forecast and monitor the stock in hand. Responsible for establishing and maintaining liaison with logistics, finance and operations to ensure compliance of contractual covenants and standard operating procedures.
 Perform spectrum of purchasing and sourcing functions for competitive price, quality, and lead time.
 Manage purchasing cycle including request for quotation, PO creation, PO follow up & goods receipt.
 Reviews a monthly status reports for the incoming and pending orders to initiate actions as necessary.
 Monitor stock in hand and review monthly forecast.
 Negotiates with vendors the prices, availability of product/service, quality and delivery date.
 Ensure delivery on time in full.
 Monitoring stock: Quantity & Quality.
 Working on achieving cost saving targets.
 Production variance analysis in terms of Price, rate variance and quantity.
 Liaise with operations & logistics for delivery.
 Weekly & Monthly reporting on all purchasing and logistics activities.

• Review requisitions from Sales team.
• Request for quotations (RFQ's), maintain and backward costing.
• Negotiate with suppliers for the target cost.
• Maintaining relations with preferred vendors to ensure a high quality merchandise procurement, expedient delivery, and dependable service at optimum price.
• Ensure compliance of purchasing activities with organization regulations
• Prepare comparison statement for received quotations
• Arrange samples
• Issuance of purchase orders & indents.
• Working for LC & Bank Guarantee.
• Sustain an effective and long term association with the global suppliers.
• Timely management and reporting of data.
• Receive requests; obtains estimates; updates records, initiates paperwork and follows up on request for approval.
• Follow-up for shipment schedule and delivery.

• Ensuring smooth operational activities within the SOP limitations along with achievements of KPIs targets.
• Evaluate international and local suppliers based on price, quality, selection, service, support, availability, reliability, production capabilities and the supplier’s reputation and history.
• Review requisition and manage transactions with suppliers.
• Request for quotations (RFQ's) and issuance of purchase orders & indents with the help of (SAP - ERP); purchase order maintenance and IOTA.
• To ensure timely circulation of bank contract / LC in coordination of imports team.
• Maintain strong working relationships and communications directly with the Global
Supply Center, global contract manufacturers and suppliers to confirm production/shipping schedules and monitor open purchase orders for all orders to ensure on-time deliveries
• Proactively report product and material availability issues to production planning team.
• Timely placement dispatch and filing of orders
• Timely management and reporting of data
• To follow up with bank and finance team to release the payment on time.
• Cost and benefit analysis of suppliers / quotations
• Negotiating discounts and terms & conditions of purchases with suppliers
• Arrange samples for testing and evaluation of new products.
• Successfully source materials and vendors ensuring best price and delivery terms for the company.
• For each new vendor or extension need to fill an Induction Form