- Built long-term supplier relationships with vendors to establish quality and competitive pricing.
- Sourced vendors, built relationships, and negotiated prices.
- Achieved 20% cumulative reduction in cost of goods sold and participated in 'purchase price variance' project task.
- Established and maintained accurate records of purchases, pricing and payment terms.
- Generated reports on purchasing activities to support management decisions.
- Managed and maintained purchase orders and invoices.
- Interacted with vendors, store managers and other stakeholders to maintain on-time deliveries.
- Analyzed sales and inventory data to determine purchasing needs and reorder points.
- Purchasing support extended to Asia Pacific region.
- Collaborated with sales team to identify and fulfill customer needs.
- Inventory management and control per business requirements.
- Participated in Suppliers development program , site survey and quality audit together with QA Manager.
- Set up Purchasing, Warehouse and Logistics operations in Shanghai China, Year 2000, an overseas assignment as Purchasing Manager role.
- Stationed in various Asia Trans pacific offices for the implementation of Scala system; Purchasing, Logistics workflow walk through and training.
- Participated in project assignments:
a) Leader of Employee Care Team : staffs welfare
b) Internal auditor for ISO compliance
c) PD Assessor Internal auditor
d) Scala Super user
e) Customer Care Team that ensure KPI are met
- Transferred to Trans-Pacific in Year 2006 to handle Project Task on APS (Advanced Planning and Scheduling system) one of SCM initiatives, comprise of:
a) Review functional requirements.
b) Collaborate with Sales, Purchasing, IT.
c) Conduct trainings in South East Asia region.
d) Conduct UAT (user acceptance test).
e) Data preparation and migration.
f) Organized Plan Schedule for module launch.
g) Conduct weekly review for Pre and Post launch.
- Collaborated with cross functional teams for ERP systems implementation -covering Finance, Sales, Purchasing, Logistics and Warehouse.