Muhammad Farhan Bin Muhammad Toha
Dengkil
Summary
Experienced procurement/purchasing professional with 14 years of expertise in the field. Graduated with a degree in Manufacturing Engineering from Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UNIMAP). Demonstrates strong skills in sourcing, supply chain management, and effectively persuading vendors/suppliers to achieve cost savings for previous organizations. Seeking an engaging career path within Procurement, Sourcing, and Project Engineering specializations to continually challenge myself intellectually. Committed to expanding knowledge and enhancing capabilities to provide exceptional service and contribute effectively across various industries in the near future.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Procurement Leader
York Malaysia Manufacturing Sdn. Bhd.
02.2023 - Current
- Streamlined procurement processes for increased efficiency and reduced lead times.
- Collaborated cross-functionally to align procurement initiatives with overall business objectives.
- Managed a team of buyers, fostering professional growth and achieving departmental targets.
- Conducted market research to identify new suppliers and stay informed about industry trends affecting pricing or availability of goods services.
- Developed and implemented procurement policies, ensuring compliance across the organization.
- Led supplier selection process, conducting thorough assessments of capabilities, capacity, and quality standards.
- Improved supplier relationships through consistent communication and performance evaluations.
- Conducted regular spend analysis exercises to identify opportunities for cost reduction or process improvements.
- Supported product development teams by identifying innovative materials/suppliers that aligned with project requirements.
- Achieved cost savings by strategically negotiating contracts and sourcing materials.
- Evaluated supplier quotes based on purchasing procedures and competitiveness in quality, price and delivery.
- Negotiated contracts with suppliers to obtain favorable terms and pricing.
- Prepared and presented reports to management on purchasing trends and cost savings to aid in decision making.
- Utilized market intelligence to identify opportunities for savings and cost reduction.
- Analyzed supplier contracts to confirm compliance with company policies and procedures.
- Led sourcing process for new vendors to get quality products and services and mitigate risk.
- Conducted spend analysis to identify cost-saving opportunities.
- Interacted with vendors, store managers and other stakeholders to maintain on-time deliveries.
- Researched and identified new suppliers and vendors.
- Established relationships with vendors to secure competitive pricing and discounts.
Procurement Manager
A & H Meyer Sdn. Bhd.
06.2022 - 12.2022
- Company Overview: Industry Manufacturing / Electronics
- Developing procurement strategies that are inventive and cost effective
- Oversee and strategize new product sourcing on daily basis
- Reviewing existing contracts with suppliers and establish contract with new suppliers
- Negotiating with suppliers to secure advantageous terms
- Approving purchase orders and reviewing confirmed delivery by suppliers
- Overseeing and managing shipment tracking, inventory level and goods supply
- Prepare procurement reports for management review with other stakeholders
- Industry Manufacturing / Electronics
Procurement Analyst
Steelcase Manufacturing (M) Sdn. Bhd.
02.2017 - 06.2022
- Company Overview: Industry Manufacturing / Production
- Project Management: Cost Savings activity, New Project Initiation development, Localization of products and components, Contract negotiation and Supplier Risk Assessment and Management
- Sourcing activity for localized products, buy and sell within inter-plant, and supporting requests from other regions as well
- Running strategic analysis and assessment on organizational spend to increase cost saving opportunities for projects with high dollar value priorities
- Establish comprehensive project paperwork summarizing on project’s value and estimated savings, for management’s approval
- Paperwork includes the details of Capex and Opex spend, Resource Plan, EVA calculation and others related
- Establishing and executing a firm material group strategy for steel and hardware commodity for the remaining fiscal year, which will enable a better plan on cost savings activity and reducing the risk of supply chain breakdown
- Tooling Management: Managing new tool development, tool payment, tool renewal activity, tool refurbishment and tool transfer
- New Project: Supporting Project Management on new Product Launch during project progress, as to ensure selected suppliers able to comply with all design and production’s requirements
- Managing the ECI (engineering change implementation) for mass production parts
- Involved heavily on daily quality related issues, including replacement of parts arrangement with supplier, product improvement and penalty charges to supplier
- Industry Manufacturing / Production
- Achievements: Leading the cost saving project of a new product variation, which has never been implemented in the plant and able to contribute to an expected business of USD 300K per year over the projected business to US and Europe
- Leading cost saving activity by reducing supply chain complexity and implementation of big data usage for hardware commodities with calculated savings of USD 80K per year
- Leading on cost saving activity, involving engineering complexity (material change), which is expected to contribute savings of USD 200k
- Leading a project involving utilization of existing production line, and cross border sourcing (China), while managing teams from plants (China and Malaysia) in ensuring parts are complying with design and feasibility requirements
- This project contributes business generation of USD 40k, and a calculated payback of only 5 months
- Based on the current situation for global price increase and supply interruption, manage to support suppliers in enabling business continuity to avoid line down and order cancellation
- Successfully created a competitive pool of suppliers and generated better pricing for every round of RFQ
- Conducted ongoing Monthly/Quarterly business review on selected suppliers, and able to record significant improvements in either agility, reliability, responsiveness and also cost management
- A certified ISO 9001/2015 Auditor
Senior Procurement Engineer
SGL Carbon Sdn. Bhd.
12.2015 - 02.2017
- Company Overview: Industry Manufacturing / Production
- Sourcing & Suppliers/ Contractors selection
- Monitoring and ensure continuous improvement of Suppliers/ Contractors (Quality, Delivery, Cost, Service, Safety)
- Perform supplier performance evaluations & supplier for audit qualification, performance monitoring
- Sourcing and price negotiation (general or engineering items) for best deal
- Ensure efficiency of material supply and liaise with productions on raw materials requirements
- Perform competitive tenders, negotiations, contract management within areas of technical operations, maintenance and Raw Materials to ensure all at Lowest Total Cost
- Convert end-users’ Purchase Requisition (PR) to Purchase Orders (PO) timely
- Involve in Tender Process/ RFQ/ RFP and tabulation process (general or engineering items)
- Purchase Order process: Issuing Purchase Order/ Update Delivery status/ Expediting & Follow up outstanding order
- Ensure the purchasing activities according to set guideline, policies and procedures
- Close monitoring and communication with local and overseas suppliers to ensure all ordered items are delivered timely and according to specified specification
- Liaise with internal customer/ Logistics for clearance and tax exemptions for imported goods/ raw materials
- Dealings with energy resources as Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), Gas Malaysia Berhad (GMB) and Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor (Syabas) regarding contract renewal, agreements amendment, special enquiry, temporary supply increase and others related
- Perform cost reduction activities align with company objectives
- Appropriate task assigned by Supervisor
- Industry Manufacturing / Production
Senior Procurement Executive
Malaysian Sheet Glass Sdn. Bhd.
12.2014 - 11.2015
- Company Overview: Industry Manufacturing / Production
- In-charge of automotive section for: New Model Introduction (NMI), Auto Hardware (child parts and components), Compounds (primer, sealant)
- Sourcing suppliers for new parts development
- Project monitoring (sample preparation, production readiness, PPAP, other OE requirements)
- Preparing BOM Masterlist for supply chain ordering with planned lead time
- Monitor and control ordering from the production plant in SAP to ensure all parts are delivered within required time
- Manage cost challenge and cost reduction activity with targeted suppliers and price, involving Cost Avoidance, Purchase Part Savings and Cost Retrieval activity
- Handling existing production, PO processing issuance, transportation (delivery arrangement), goods clearance, etc
- Handling crisis management for problematic suppliers to avoid any failure delivery issue
- Preparing and negotiating Bulk Order, arrangement of urgent delivery requests, forecast vs actual order conflicts and others
- Preparing Contract Summary, monthly PPV (purchase part variance) report, and monthly procurement report
- Industry Manufacturing / Production
Procurement Engineer
Perodua Manufacturing Sdn.Bhd
09.2011 - 11.2014
- Company Overview: Industry Automobile / Automotive Ancillary / Vehicle
- New Project/ New Automotive Part Development (Styling Parts Module ; Resin Based)
- Received overall project schedule with complete changing parts list (CPL) included new development parts and carry over parts
- Gather all team members (designer, QC, production, etc) to discuss various important items for parts development
- Collect all technical with regulation data and cross check with approved target cost for each part
- To present to management if required
- Nominated all qualified vendors after getting the final approved budget
- Calling for request for quotation (RFQ) meetings with vendors
- Discuss and explain all parts' requirements (technical, cost, schedule) during RFQ to avoid misquote or under-quote
- Analyze quotations from vendors and proceed with vendor's selection
- Negotiate on cost reduction for parts which did not meet approved budget cost
- Issue letter of instruction (LOI) to selected vendors and proceed with Design-Go and Tooling-Go meeting
- Monitor all development progress, assisted by other team members
- To check all vendors related and tool makers appointed by vendors
- Ensure every detail inside the development schedule (T0, T1, LPVV, JPJ regulation approval, CJ5 applications, E-Mark Tests, other tests, mould, jigs and CF development, assembly trial and MP) is according to schedule
- To justify cost movement on each development stage
- Arrange and monitor parts delivery for each arranged events based on the Master Schedule
- Justify, challenge and approve mass pro (MP) cost for all monitored parts
- Arrange on continuous cost reduction activity, road map planning and multi sourcing arrangement
- Managing the ECI (engineering change) implementation for mass production parts
- ECI (engineering change info) will be issued once there is any improvement on mass production parts
- A kick-off meeting will be set up with vendors in order to arrange all required steps with information for the implementation
- Price justification for improvement, implementation schedule, stock rundown activity, Shohin (new part) activity and approval for new incoming parts were all required in order to smoothen the changing parts process
- Monitoring spare parts delivery performance and improvements initiated to solve any ongoing delivery issue for spare parts
- Industry Automobile / Automotive Ancillary / Vehicle
Process Engineer
Venture G.E.S Manufacturing Sdn. Bhd
11.2009 - 08.2011
- Company Overview: Industry Manufacturing / Production
- Liaise with the production team to improve manufacturing to meet customer's specification and requirement
- Prepare work instruction with a complete guide on final assembly (back end) of a product based on information given by the customer
- Prepare fixtures and jigs to improve the assembly process
- Setting up the production line for the startup model
- Involve directly in process and design altering issues in order to reduce process standard time and cost
- Prepare FMEA report and liaise with NPI team to ensure new project transferring phase to mass production runs smoothly according to schedule
- Industry Manufacturing / Production
Education
Bachelor's Degree - Manufacturing Engineering
Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)
01.2009
Matriculation Certificate - Physics
Kolej Matrikulasi Pulau Pinang
01.2005
Sijil Pengajian Malaysia -
Sekolah Tuanku Abdul Rahman
Ipoh, Perak10.2003
Skills
- MS Office
- SAP
- Project Management and Planning
- Sourcing and Cost Negotiations
- Supply Chain Management
- Project Management
- Multilevel Communications
- Leadership
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Supply Chain Optimization
- Strategic Sourcing
- Global Procurement
- Spend Analysis
- Supplier management
- Problem-Solving
- Effective Communication
Additional Information
- Basic knowledge in Power BI, Visual Basic, networking and traceability program.
- Enrolled in OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Act) subject and trained briefly during 8th semester.
- Able to work independently without supervision provided proper guidance on the correct methods and SOP.
- Able to communicate well with all levels, used to work under pressure and multitasking person.
Profile - Introduction
Conscientious and experienced procurement/purchasing with 13 years’ experience in the said field. Graduated in Manufacturing Engineering from Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UNIMAP). With strong skill set of sourcing, supply chain management, convincing and persuading vendors/suppliers with results of cost savings contributed to previous working organization. Still looking to challenge own self - intellect with an interesting career path in the Procurement, Sourcing and Project Engineering specializations. Keen on improving knowledge in said manners and to enhance self-capabilities in order to offer the best service and contribution to various fields in the near future.
Awardsandhonours
- Dean's List during the 6th semester at the university.
- Bestari's List for 2 semesters (3rd and 5th) at the university.
Personal Information
- Expected Salary: MYR 11,000.00
- Date of Birth: 06/19/86
- Gender: Male
References
- Adrian Lim Min - Shyang, Senior Manager, Supply Chain, Steelcase Manufacturing (M) Sdn Bhd, mlim4@steelcase.com, +60123784266
- Nazlee bin Idris, Senior Manager, Material Management Department, Steelcase Manufacturing (M) Sdn Bhd, Nazlee.Idris@steelcase.com, +60123877783
Certification
- Certified ISO 9001 : 2015 Auditor Training - 2019
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Training - 2020
Languages
Malay
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Timeline
Procurement Leader
York Malaysia Manufacturing Sdn. Bhd.
02.2023 - Current
Procurement Manager
A & H Meyer Sdn. Bhd.
06.2022 - 12.2022
Procurement Analyst
Steelcase Manufacturing (M) Sdn. Bhd.
02.2017 - 06.2022
Senior Procurement Engineer
SGL Carbon Sdn. Bhd.
12.2015 - 02.2017
Senior Procurement Executive
Malaysian Sheet Glass Sdn. Bhd.
12.2014 - 11.2015
Procurement Engineer
Perodua Manufacturing Sdn.Bhd
09.2011 - 11.2014
Process Engineer
Venture G.E.S Manufacturing Sdn. Bhd
11.2009 - 08.2011
Bachelor's Degree - Manufacturing Engineering
Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)
Matriculation Certificate - Physics
Kolej Matrikulasi Pulau Pinang
Sijil Pengajian Malaysia -
Sekolah Tuanku Abdul Rahman
- Certified ISO 9001 : 2015 Auditor Training - 2019
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Training - 2020
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