Experience

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  MCC Premium Label Solutions

  • South Africa

  • Procurement Officer

    • Feb 2020 - Present
    • South Africa

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  SA Litho Label Printers

  • Parrow

  • Procurement Officer

    • Jan 2018 - Feb 2020
    • Parrow

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  Warshay Investments t/a KWV

  • Paarl

  • Junior Buyer MRO

    • Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
    • Paarl

    Sourcing requirements for Maintenance Repairs and Operations

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  KWV

  • Paarl

  • Material Planner

    • Nov 2014 - Dec 2016
    • Paarl

    Procuring and processing orders on dry goods for production.  Ensuring that stock rotation is implemented.  Ensure that correct vintages and alcohol is supplied.  Ensure that suppliers meet SLA’s.  Isolating and returning defective materials to suppliers.  Ensure that defective materials are replaced as soon as possible.  Assisting with the phase out of materials being replaced.  Give feedback in scheduling meetings regarding possible material risks for production.

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  JLINX ELECTRONICS

  • Paarl

  • Logistics Manager

    • Apr 2014 - Oct 2014
    • Paarl

    Ensuring that all specified items for a jobs are purchased.  Ensuring that the purchasing prices of items are correct.  Ensure vehicles are checked weekly to improve reliability.  Check stock monthly and reconcile variances if any.  Coordinating deliveries to and from suppliers.  Returning faulty items and claiming credit where applicable

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  Collotype Labels

  • Paarl

  • Procurement and Logistics Manager

    • Aug 2005 - Oct 2013
    • Paarl

    Procurement of all required items needed for production (dies, printing cylinders, substrates, inks, etc.), housekeeping as well as stationery.  Set up approved supplier database to provide the best possible products.  Monitoring purchases to be within the budget provided.  Negotiate pricing with all suppliers and in conjunction with a global procurement team setup rebate structures for global suppliers.  Organize and control consignment stock from suppliers.  Compiling reports for management on Procured goods against used quantities. Logging complaints against suppliers for quality or procurement issues that may have affected the process within the company. Putting through claims to suppliers when losses are incurred from defects on items procured or when claims are forwarded to us as a result of such defects.  Compiling reports in Excel for quarterly supplier meetings to state each supplier’s contribution to the company with regard to quantities and value.  Providing count sheets to relevant departments for each stock count.  Reconciling issued quantities to production against purchased and counted figures to determine the P&L and forward reports to the Financial and Technical Director.  Administering roll over into next financial period after each stock count and reconciliation.  Analyzing and compiling year to date figures on required materials to ensure that imported stocks are available when needed.  Communicate with suppliers and clearing agents, verbally and written, to have such material available and cleared upon delivery.  Outsourcing suppliers when required.  Providing clearing agents with documents stating the composition of chemicals being imported as being laid down by legislation.  Report deviations to production when exceeding budgeted or estimated quantities.  Generating and forwarding purchase orders to suppliers in order to have the material delivered to the factory prior to a 3-day fixed plan.

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  British American Tobacco South Africa

  • Paarl

  • Logistics Coordinator

    • May 1991 - Mar 2002
    • Paarl

    Organizing the movement of material and semi-finished products between the various departments to produce the finished product.  Filling out clearing instruction of imported items and forward the instructions through to the clearing agents.  Logging complaints against suppliers for supplying defective or inferior materials. Claiming damages from suppliers for any losses incurred by such defects.  Run audit trail of raw material delivered.  Capturing material requirements on the SAP system.  Confirming production figures on SAP to have products being moved in between plants, depots and distribution centers.  Working closely with the Financial Department to reconcile production figures and invoices.  Organizing weekly stock departmental counts and reconciling figures.  Have completed report signed off by the financial manager before a roll over on SAP to the next week or financial period is performed.