Procurement Specialist at Viscofan (Thailand) Co. Ltd (2025-04 – Present)
Sausage Collagen & Cellulose Casing Manufacturer
- Timely placement and management of all Raw material, Packaging, Indirect and Services from supplier to mitigate demand variation.
- Pull in, push out, cancel order to fulfill/match production requirements, customer upsides, localization project transitions.
- Coordinate with R&D and QA for alternative material or new material requirements.
- Raw Material & Packaging homologation to cost & lead time improvement.
- Maintain good partnership with suppliers to ensure smooth support and minimize risk of supply.
- Negotiations with suppliers and establish agreements on the best price and service terms as well as resolve any issues with supplier performance.
- Optimize inventory order through the most effective solutions (shipping mode, consolidation) and coordinate on slow moving inventory management with supply chain.
- Initial check and follow up all shipping documents from suppliers for Import officer to process the customs clearance.
- RFPs/RFIs development, execution and analysis, vendor selection, facilitates opportunity identification and tracking of the savings and productivity project pipeline.
- Responsible for ensuring that pricing and terms data is accurate and current in SAP and effectively resolve all invoice price discrepancies.
- Supplier Audit and Evaluation.
- Escalate major supplier issues to APAC Supply Chain Managers.
- Align with BRC, Food safety regulatory and corporate policy.
Sourcing Specialist at Quaker Houghton (Thailand) Co. Ltd (2022-09 – 2025-03)
Lube Oil and Fluid care Manufacturer
- Review monthly forecast of raw material which provided by Supply Chain and plan raw material ordering to support operation.
- Prepare and present to regional and global Category Managers purchasing and spend reports on a monthly basis in supplier/category spend, RFX, supplier performance, savings/productivity, DPO, and other value-indicative areas of opportunity.
- Timely placement and management of all Import raw material order from other Intercompany and 3rd party oversea supplier to mitigate demand variation.
- Pull in, push out, cancel order to fulfill/match production requirements, customer upsides, localization project transitions.
- Pre alert to supply chain team for any raw material issue, risk of shortage, gap of supply, shipment delay notice from forwarder.
- Coordinate with R&D and QC for alternative material or new material requirement.
- Maintain good partnership with supplier to ensure smooth support and minimize risk of supply.
- Negotiations with suppliers and establish agreement on the best price and service terms as well as resolve any issues with supplier performance.
- Optimize inventory order through the most effective solutions (shipping mode, consolidation) and coordinate on slow moving inventory management with supply chain.
- Negotiate and compare the freight rate from forwarders before nominating to arrange shipment both air & sea freight.
- Initial check and follow up all shipping documents from suppliers for Import administrator to process the customs clearance.
- Drives local and regional sourcing strategies for assigned spend categories including RFPs/RFIs development, execution and analysis, vendor selection, facilitates opportunity identification and tracking of the savings and productivity project pipeline.
- Ensure that 100% of direct suppliers, above $100k spend, commit to Quaker Houghton's Supplier Code of Conduct.
- Support QC for material shelf-life extension request to suppliers.
- Responsible for ensuring that pricing and terms data is accurate and current in JDE and effectively resolve all invoice price discrepancies.
- Support rapid and comprehensive addressment of supplier performance failures as requested by the Category Managers. Escalate major supplier issues to Global Category Managers as well.
- Provide Monthly Affiliate report to Finance department. Procurement Monthly open PO report.
- Identify Hazard /Near Miss Reporting as per EHS global policy.
Sourcing Specialist at Essilor Optical Laboratory (Thailand) Co.,Ltd (2022-03 – 2022-08)
Ophthalmic lenses and frames Manufacturer
- Support APAC Category managers to develop and execute sourcing strategies that map to and support overall business strategies
- Coordinates purchasing activities with manufacturing, planning and engineering teams to acquire inventory in a cost effective and timely manner
- Sourcing industrial materials, localization, alternative raw materials, manufacturing tools/machines and product, maintenance, service vendors, to ensure effective materials and services availabilities for operation and business growth
- New supplier evaluation and introduction
- Supplier base optimization, monitor supplier performance and evaluation, initiate supplier improvement program
- Minimize the risks of materials supply by supplier annual audit, supply contracts and agreements implementation
- Evaluate the best total cost for the company
- Cost reduction plan preparation and implementation
- Support negotiation with local suppliers to achieve the target commercial conditions
- Payment terms negotiation
- Support specific projects with cross-functional teams to improve services
- Local & oversea suppliers (buying activities, supplier scouting, RFQ, Quotation verification); Handle all requests from different users of Thailand Frames workshop
- Coordination - Tristar/Italy/EOLT; Intercompany flow
- SAP Maintenance, Info records, Price list, Data consolidation, VMD creation & maintenance
- Engage sourcing operation in TH Ad-hoc support to cross-functional team
- Handle transactional topics in SAP with the global shared services team such as New suppliers creation, Follow invoice for advance payment, PR to PO conversion, Raise the ticket for Advance Payment, Send PO to supplier, and Maintain info record & price for each item
Material Buyer at Fisher & Paykel Appliances (Thailand), Ltd (2014-10 – 2022-03)
Home Appliances Manufacturer. Materials: Steel, Stamping parts, Tube, Spring, Tempered Glass, other component parts
- Generating POs from MRP system (JDE oracle) both VMI / Non-VMI items and ensuring scheduled deliveries are carried out and align with DIFOT principles (Delivered In-Full, On-Time) also checking PO prices against the system
- Updating potential shortages and working with the internal team to resolve any shortfalls.
- Expedite and reschedule open purchase orders to suit production planning requirements and ensure ZERO production down time
- Work with suppliers to provide best solution for non-delivery or late delivery items to minimize impact to production scheduling and availability.
- Coordinate with overseas supplier and forwarder regarding ASN process to ensure the schedule of shipment and resolving the beyond control issue.
- Interpret inventory requests, production scheduled, purchase requisition, order and other documents to co-ordinates purchasing activity with the current and anticipated demand for goods and material.
- To monitor components are accurately received in order to be able to plan and purchase accurately.
- To ensure components have suitable DOS and are not over purchased which may lead to excess PO and obsolete stock.
- To analyze actual usage VS. forecast against production plan and interpret into requirement of material and supplier timely basis.
- Inventory optimization according to company's objective.
- Assess supplier's performance to ensure that they meet the organization's agreement.
- File set up & on-going management of key data.
- Weekly Unfilled demand report / Monthly report and root cause analysis.
- Establish personal action plan to support Quality Target/Goal/Business Plan
- Apply the cost of loss, risk and benefit approach to make decisions.
- Work collaboratively with demand planning team on operation concern to meet sales order request.
- Material simulation to define most material availability to production plan.
- Identify research, evaluate and select suppliers that meet the organization standards of price, quality, timing and reliability of supply.
- To monitoring movement of raw materials and develop systematically materials requirement plan to ensure no stock-out and inventory turn in target.
- Assess supplier's products to ensure that they comply with specifications and meet the organization's quality standard.
- Interpret purchase requisition, order and other documents to co-ordinates purchasing activity with the organization's current and anticipated demand for materials.
- Monitor the quality and timelines of materials and goods supplied, follow up the status of purchase orders with vendors to endure timely delivery and communicate status of order with internal customers.
- Coordinates with internal and external customers in order to ensure effective Material Requirement Planning (MRP) and take necessary actions to ensure material delivery as per MRP
- Historical demand analysis, ABC analysis of products and material variation and determine suitable strategic inventory to support production
