Plant Buyer at APL Cartons (2022-01 – Present)
- Buying of all Engineering parts, consumables and critical raw materials
- Expediting and de-expediting of orders
- Complete Capex's and capture requisitions in Syspro
- Negotiate best possible prices as well as best quality and favorable terms with various suppliers
- Meet / exceed monthly savings targets
- Contract and supplier take on – based on negotiated contracts
- Monitoring the adherence to group contracts
- Documenting, implementing and maintain best operating practices
- Perform SPA meetings with suppliers
- Perform SLA meetings with contracted suppliers and HOD's
- Management of overdue purchase orders and supplier payment queries
- Replenish SYSPRO stock levels and direct orders in terms of MRP system
- Conduct meetings on open overdue orders / GRNI report / Creditor queries
- Manage Engineering & Consumable stores employees
- Ensure that all financial and ISO internal controls are always adhered to
- Ad-hoc related requests from Commercial Manager and General Manager
Buyer: Packaging & Raw Materials at Clover SA (2012-06 – 2021-08)
- Acted as Department Head in absence of Manager
- MRP Purchasing
- Maintaining and managing of MRP information (Lead times and minimum balance levels of packaging material import and local)
- Running MRP purchasing reports on weekly basis (2 Times weekly)
- Purchasing of all BOM Items
- Sourcing of new and back up suppliers
- Distribution of Purchase Orders to suppliers
- Expediting and de-expediting of all BOM items
- Running and maintaining open PO reports
- Reporting on PPV's (Purchase price Variance)
- Managing inbound material delivery to satisfy Production
- Managing and liasing with suppliers
- Supplying of forecasts to suppliers on request
- Replenishment and Controlling of Stock
- Managing Days stock cover of all Raws and Packs for branch to Budget
- Reporting on stock status (Slow moving, dead stock etc.)
- Optimize Logistics scheduling
- Daily planning on loads - minimizing overtime for offloading
- Daily optimizing of production schedule
- Planning of Packaging material and ingredients for Fresh and UHT Production facilities
- Creating Shop Orders in ERP system
- Back up production consumables, PPE etc
- Sourcing of new Suppliers
- Maintaining of Purchase Orders
- Expediting of Commodity Orders
- Back up for purchasing of Chemicals for production
- Arranging of Inter branch freight transfers
Stores Controller at Volkswagen Motorsport (2008-10 – 2012-05)
- Receiving
- Expedite discrepancies upon request
- Deliver received materials
- Detailed checking of material
- Matching of material to packing slips
- Matching of packing slips to purchase orders
- Tagging and identification of material
- Preparing receiving reports
- Investigating discrepancies
- Filing documents
- Posting of inventory receipts to computer
- Copying documents and distribution of documents to accounting
- Shipping
- Packaging items or material
- Arranging shipping
- Preparing bills of lading and freight waybills
- Forwarding documentation to accounting
- Cyclical counts
- Housekeeping
- Daily cleaning up
- Consistent and periodic cleaning of shelves, racks, floors and bulk storage areas
- Responsible for sales at the various National race meetings (Invoicing & Direct Sales)
- Controlling of Lease Engine database
- Responsible for maintaining stock levels in Main store and parts truck
- Warehouse Management
- Proper binning and palletizing of inventory
- Repackaging of inventory
- Protecting inventory from - damage, corrosion, and deterioration
- Maintaining inventory - i.e. rotation of shafts re-warehousing, restocking shelves
- Any other tasks within scope
Store Manager at Alexander Corner Liquor Store (2007-11 – 2008-06)
Family business
- Day to day managing of store
- Ordering and controlling of stock
- Counter sales
- Opening and closing of store
- Store supervision
Project Buyer at Sentratek Holdings (2007-06 – 2007-10)
- Raising purchase notes on Pastel
- Prepare purchase orders and distributing copies to suppliers and departments originating requests
- Goods receiving and documentation
- Expedite outstanding orders
- Consolidate delivery notes with supplier invoice / purchase orders
- Calculate costs of orders
- Organizing Freight / shipment
- Weekly Stock takes
- Managing of consignment stock
- Health & Safety representative
Industrial Engineering Clerk at Welfit Oddy (Pty) Ltd (2006-10 – 2007-06)
- Check production numbers booked of by production supervisors on daily basis
- Daily updating of Tank unit progress report
- Maintaining production order numbers in BAAN (Company Software Package) of tank units that have been signed off
- Complete final operations on tanker units in BAAN
- Book off tanker units into inventory warehouse
- General enquiries on progress of tank units
- Calculation of production labour input vs. output (Productivity)
- Month end WIP (Work in Progress) calculation
Finance Clerk at Welfit Oddy (Pty) Ltd (2005-05 – 2006-09)
- Maintaining Fixed Assets Register with up to date monthly entries, recons & journals within 3 weeks of month-end
- Ensuring all additions & disposals are transacted as soon as they occur
- Ensuring capital WIP account only consists of incomplete assets expenditure
- Ensuring all assets have numbers, capex numbers & location references
- Maintaining consistently structured formal asset descriptions
- Physically numbering all assets
- Conducting asset cycle counting regularly to ensure all assets counted at least once per annum
- Maintaining effective authorization files for Capex applications
- Formal follow-up on issued numbers weekly
- Filing authorized application forms, purchase orders and supplier invoices
- Maintaining effective authorization files for Disposal applications
- Updating monthly cost summaries for Stannic Fleet Management & reallocating costs to cost centers
