Supply Chain Officer

About the role

Responsibilities

• Mainly responsible for sourcing activities for all capital items & consumable etc. Assisting SPO on vendor management activity such as preparing/maintaining the vendor performance rating etc. Responsible for monitoring long term price agreement-LTPA & regulating to achieve continual performance improvement based on Deming’s PDCA cycle. Maintaining the data of raw material development process & dispatching samples to relevant department. Arrangement to send any raw material samples to overseas supplier for development process. Continuously analyze market and delivery systems in order to assess present and future material availability. Continuously working on vendor sourcing & vendor relationship activities
• Responsible for entire procurement cycle from identifying, qualifying the supplier, understanding each purchase request need, RFQ, RFP, RFI, Vendor selection, order issuance & acknowledgement, receipt of material till payment to vendor.
• Responsible for all direct & indirect purchases
• Develop/qualify the vendors & reduce the process/product waste/running cost for the entire department acting as procurement considering TCO.
• Responsible for informal purchase activities such as Petty cash to cater the urgent needs to ensure the smooth operation of plant.
• Maintaining the raw material sample register & transferring to end user/R&D for vendor qualification.
• Sending the raw material samples to various vendors for qualifying them for competitive advantage
• Responsible for all rental service & calibration service.
• Involving from the beginning till successful implementation & monitoring of efficient procurement such as LTPA-Long term price agreement to achieve quantity discounts with additional benefit of free of training, auditing by supplier for ensuring the best practice in the usage of technical items & also ensuring the less inventory with shortest lead time.
• Proactively liaising between suppliers and end users to resolve purchasing supply issues, ensuring an accurate and timely provision of supplies.
• Accurately maintaining the Company purchasing databases to high standards.
• Creating/blocking the qualified vendor in SAP after SCM approval.
• Ensuring the recovery of advance payments from supplier by means of material supply/security cheque/bank guarantee to safeguard company resources jointly with COO, CFO, SCM and SPO

Skills

• SAP
• Vendor management
• Long term price agreement (LTPA)
• Procurement cycle management
• RFQ/RFP/RFI processes
• Vendor qualification
• Supply chain coordination
• Inventory optimization
• Material sampling and development
• Tendering
• Payment and risk mitigation
• Data maintenance in purchasing databases
• Calibrations services management
• Rental services management