Ando Simangunsong
Procurememt
Choa Chu Kang North
Summary
A seasoned procurement professional with over eleven years of experience in building and expanding global procurement organizations across the Asia Pacific region. I have a diverse industry background, including financial, technology, travel, wholesale retail, F&B, telco, and automotive sectors. In my capacity, I have played a pivotal role in providing advisory support for the strategic planning, development, and digitalization of procurement functions, driving modernization efforts. I hold complete accountability for informed decision-making in procuring goods and services, overseeing an annual procurement budget exceeding one hundred million dollars.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Operation & Supply Chain Lead
La Braceria Pte Ltd
10.2023 - Current
- Overseeing the procurement and management of food and beverage inventory
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with suppliers to secure a consistent and high-quality supply of ingredients
- Implementing quality control measures to maintain the highest standards for food and beverage offerings
- Managing the logistics of getting ingredients from suppliers to the kitchen efficiently
- Monitoring and controlling costs associated with operations.
Procurement Manager
Beleaf Farm Indonesia
04.2023 - 09.2023
- Building a direct and indirect procurement team
- Establishing a new procurement system
- Creating procurement standard operating procedures
- Managing purchasing activities for both direct and indirect goods
- Responsible for all activities related to export commodities.
IT Procurement Manager APAC
Flash Coffee
08.2022 - 03.2023
- Managing and controlling all IT procurement across six APAC countries
- Providing guidance for improving the reliability of the procurement system
- Perform a strategic negotiation associated to IT contracts
- Conducting due diligence screening for all IT vendors
- Evaluating and reviewing all requests and tender processes for hardware and software
- Manage project tender schedules and timelines
- Maintain Purchase Requisition (PR) and Purchase Order (PO) processes
- Oversee contractual project documentation
- Perform a vendor performance review
- Perform IT asset category management.
Head of Procurement
Dana
02.2019 - 08.2022
- Design build and maintain procurement organization and system
- Manage all procurement activities across IT, Marketing, Operations, Finance, Legal, HR, and Product Technology categories
- Develop and implement strategies to achieve 10% annual cost savings
- Ensure that project utilization stays below budget thresholds
- Conduct periodic evaluations of supplier performance
- Own procurement policy and guidelines
- Keeping deviations under 2% annually
- Ensure vendor performance meets the minimum SLA of 98% semi-annually
- Develop and improve procurement systems and processes
- Ensuring that all procurement activities follow regulatory standards
- Develop and maintain contingency plans for all critical procurement activities
- Control and maintain Vendor management
- Control and maintain Contract management.
IT Procurement Lead - SEA
Traveloka
05.2016 - 02.2019
- Building a new procurement team and organization across south east asia
- Establishing the purchase request approval system
- Managing IT procurement in 7 Southeast Asian countries
- Taking responsibility for all software and hardware procurement
- Managing negotiations and optimizing the use of IT commodities
- Controlling all IT-related tender processes from start to finish
- Building synergy with users and actively participating in decision-making activities
- Craft and regulate IT Procurement standard process.
IT Procurement Manager
Carrefour - Indonesia
01.2014 - 01.2016
- Oversee the migration of global contract services to local IT distributors and business partners
- Source IT materials and services to support 120 national hypermarket stores
- Manage procurement compliance, ensuring all projects meet standard regulations and requirements
- Identify and source eligible vendors
- Maintain item categories for IT department and execute high-impact negotiation strategies
- Handle user requests and prioritize resource allocation
- Implement standard Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) practices
- Maintain project-related contractual documentation.
IT Procurement Assistant Manager
My Republic
12.2012 - 10.2013
- Monitor project compliance, ensuring all IT materials and services meet standard regulations and project requirements
- Manage pre and post qualification tender processes
- Oversee user requests and prioritize resource allocation
- Manage project tender schedules and timelines
- Maintain Purchase Requisition (PR) and Purchase Order (PO) processes.
Education
Bachelor in Economics -
Brawijaya University
01.2002 - 04.2007
Skills
Strategic SourcingProcurement System DeliveryVendor ManagementMarket AnalysisRisk ManagementContract ManagementCost OptimizationProcurement DigitalizationStakeholder ManagementTender ManagementIT ProcurementLeadership and Team ManagementSupply Chain ManagementStrategic NegotiationIT Project ManagementITSMGartner BuySmart
Procurement Process Improvement
Spend Analysis
Supplier Relationship Management
Supply Chain Optimization
Accomplishments
- Team (with Miftahul), 2023, Pashouses new office, Menara AIA, plan design, IT infrastructure implementation.
- Team (with Ignes Widjaja), 2022, Hackathon Champion, East Venture, the first Indonesia sociologistic platform.
- Flash Coffee, 2022 onboard oracle business suite for procurement.
- Dana, 2019 – 2022, - $40 Mil of total cost saving.
- Dana, 2019 – 2022, - Establishes tier- 4 core data center & disaster recovery center in 3 collocations.
- Traveloka, 2016, - Established a Procurement workflow system using Jira service desk (2016).
- Traveloka, 2016- 2019, New office Infra setup in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, India, Malaysia, Vietnam.
- Traveloka, 2016 – 2019 6 $ Mil of total cost saving and cost mitigation.
Development Program
- Gartner executive program for procurement advisor, 2021, 2022
- Gartner executive program for procurement advisor, 2017, 2019
References
- Beleaf Farm, Jacob Holmes
- Flash, Aissam Thaleb
- Dana, Elvi Chaerani
- Traveloka, Roland Keiser
- Carrefour, Nurmelia
Timeline
Operation & Supply Chain Lead
La Braceria Pte Ltd
10.2023 - Current
Procurement Manager
Beleaf Farm Indonesia
04.2023 - 09.2023
IT Procurement Manager APAC
Flash Coffee
08.2022 - 03.2023
Head of Procurement
Dana
02.2019 - 08.2022
IT Procurement Lead - SEA
Traveloka
05.2016 - 02.2019
IT Procurement Manager
Carrefour - Indonesia
01.2014 - 01.2016
IT Procurement Assistant Manager
My Republic
12.2012 - 10.2013
Bachelor in Economics -
Brawijaya University
01.2002 - 04.2007