Carin vd Westhuizen
Procurement/Planner specialist
Alberton
Summary
Through 20+ years’ experience, I bring strong planning, change control, and supply chain, management and agile production strategy to organization through strong forecasting and negotiation with global companies, clearing and forward agents and a logical daily production planning approach, understanding customer's environments. While working with diverse teams to ensure freight delivery and product availability, worked on different challenging supply chain projects, to drive down costs, and deliver on time and in budgets that includes analyzing costs and procurement strategies combined with a strong customer management experience approach through sales and marketing and customer service interaction and staff training.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
Work History
Procurement/Planner specialist
Vibrantz Technologies
10.2023 - Current
- Generate monthly production plan based on forecasts received from Commercial
- Conduct weekly meetings with production teams to ensure target dates are met.
- Load monthly sales forecasts into the planning system.
- Analyze MRP report from SAP for ordering of raw material and packaging for local production
- Generate works orders for bulk manufacturing and packing
- Attend QC and production meetings to monitor product progress through various stages.
- Procure consumables, lab supplies, and other operational materials.
- Monitor procurement spending weekly
- Handle supplier queries related to quality issues and pricing discrepancies.
- Send forecasts to suppliers of long lead-time items to prevent stockouts.
- Source alternative packaging suppliers to achieve cost savings.
- Cost reduction on expired or redundant raw materials +-R5 million
- Identify alternative raw material manufacturers when only one approved source exists.
- Conduct regular meetings with suppliers to maintain strong relationships.
- Negotiate improved pricing and terms with suppliers.
- Manage shipping of imported products.
- Collaborate with clearing agents, forwarding agents, and suppliers for goods collection, customs clearance, and ETA follow-ups.
- Attend monthly management meetings to report on planning, procurement, and production status.
- Middle management – reporting staff 1
3rd Party Supplier Manager
Ascendis Pharma
05.2019 - 09.2023
- Demand planning on finished goods for local production
- Demand planning on raw material and packaging for local production
- View the stock on hand at our contract manufacturers, open supplier orders and place orders with the approved suppliers.
- Handle all supplier queries of pack mats, raw materials that have quality issues.
- Send forecast to suppliers for long lead time items to avoid stock outs.
- Source alternative suppliers on packaging for cost savings.
- Source alternative API manufacturers for which we only have one approved source.
- Regular meetings with suppliers (pack mats and raw material)
- Manage monthly stock take at Wrapsa and every 6 months stock take at the other 3 manufacturing sites.
- Handle the shipping of imported products. Work with clearing agents - Arrange with forwarding agent and supplier the collection of the goods, clearing instructions, follow ups on ETAs.
- Send weekly reports to finance of open forex purchase orders.
- Monthly Stock expiry report for Raw material and packaging
- Coordinate artwork and time lines from suppliers when updating artwork with relevant departments.
- Send updates to finance when changes in the Bill of material. Example, Change in artwork.
- Responsible for creating new bills of material when new products launched.
- Responsible for updating the bill of material for management when receive new packaging or raw material pricing or sub-contractor pricing.
- Responsible in providing updated COGs for budgeting purposes.
- Involved in getting new manufacturing site up and running.
- Works closely with the regulatory and quality department
- Work closely with the Supply chain manager and other departments
Production Planner
Nkunzi Pharmaceuticals
05.2016 - 07.2018
- Manage and maintain production schedule.
- Providing direction on operational and resource planning
- Ensuring teams KPI maximum performance and effective production capacity planning
- Ensuring teamwork by regular meetings with various managers and other service providers
- Managing equipment and materials for production demand
- Organize production according to demand and quality standards.
- Highlight critical material shortages.
- Highlight products that are at risk are identified.
- Manage critical manufacturing orders.
- Ensure that new products are added to the correct production line.
- Schedule equipment and resources to ensure throughput of the production schedule.
- Monitor schedules, ensuring time and budget planning.
- Document process and report outcomes on performance
- Staff meetings encouraging team workflow.
- Collaborate with quality control, warehouse, and other staff.
- Front of house customer liaison
- Manage workloads and planning.
- Suggest batch size changes, rerouting of products on equipment.
- Schedule shift according to production needs
- Monitor jobs to ensure they will finish on time and within budget.
- Monthly reporting on plan schedule vs actual
- Address issues when they arise aiming for minimum disruption.
- Obtain output information (number of finished products, percentage of defectives etc.)
- Create Nonconformance reports (NCR) when required.
- Self-Organized
MRP Administrator
Osborn Engineering
11.2014 - 03.2016
- My function of material requirements (MRP) planner is to guarantee critical material availability, used to procure and produce the requirement quantities on time both for internal purposes and for sales and distribution.
- This process involves the monitoring of stocks, creation of procurement proposals for purchasing and production.
- As a MRP planner administrator I analyzed the high-level demand from sales orders and forecasts to completion - maintained network from existing positions
- Responsible for End-to-end planning - from works order to a production and demand management
- Data analytics include the demand from sales orders and forecasts.
- Comprehensive and practical decision making
- Attend daily sales production meetings and communicate across all teams.
- Stock ordering and maintaining critical levels of product levels.
- Managing Bill of Materials -
- Manage Team requirements, key resource, and allocations.
- System worked on - AX and CadLINK
Buyer
Digistics
04.2014 - 10.2014
- Digistics is procurement for the multi temperature-controlled product portfolios for McDonald’s, KFC and King pie.
Internal sales
AIG sales
11.2013 - 02.2014
- Stockiest of steel pipe and fittings used in the conveyance of liquids and other materials specialized in the mining industry.
Planning Specialist
Weir Minerals
06.2013 - 10.2013
- A global leader in the mining industry providing productive and profitable services.
Production Planner
Akacia Health Care
05.2012 - 04.2013
- Pharmaceutical company.
Supply Chain Coordinator
Henkel SA
03.2011 - 03.2012
- Adhesive Technologies, Beauty care and home care
Customer Service Controller
Henkel SA
02.2010 - 02.2011
- Adhesive Technologies, Beauty care and home care
Inventory Controller
Evapco
04.2009 - 02.2010
- Cooling Towers
Logistics Analyst
Baisch Engineering
06.2008 - 02.2009
- Production of commercial automotive parts
Procurement Coordinator
Henkel SA
01.1999 - 01.2008
- Buyer/Planner (Promoted)
- Materials Controller (Promoted)
- SAP Administrator (Promoted)
- Internal Sales (Promoted)
- Adhesive Technologies, Beauty care and home care
Customer Service Unit
Dulux
03.1997 - 05.1999
Education
Advanced Negotiation as a life skill - undefined
IMM
01.2008
Certificate in Sales and Marketing - undefined
Damelin
01.2000
Certificate of Higher Education - undefined
Dinwiddie High School
Germiston, Gauteng01.1996
Skills
Cost Control
Communication Skills
Time Management
Stress management
Supply Chain Management Stock Budget Control
Strategic Demand, Central Planning
Problem-solving
Analytic Thinking
Customer service
SAP MM, SD, PP (super user)
Timeline
Procurement/Planner specialist
Vibrantz Technologies
10.2023 - Current
3rd Party Supplier Manager
Ascendis Pharma
05.2019 - 09.2023
Production Planner
Nkunzi Pharmaceuticals
05.2016 - 07.2018
MRP Administrator
Osborn Engineering
11.2014 - 03.2016
Buyer
Digistics
04.2014 - 10.2014
Internal sales
AIG sales
11.2013 - 02.2014
Planning Specialist
Weir Minerals
06.2013 - 10.2013
Production Planner
Akacia Health Care
05.2012 - 04.2013
Supply Chain Coordinator
Henkel SA
03.2011 - 03.2012
Customer Service Controller
Henkel SA
02.2010 - 02.2011
Inventory Controller
Evapco
04.2009 - 02.2010
Logistics Analyst
Baisch Engineering
06.2008 - 02.2009
Procurement Coordinator
Henkel SA
01.1999 - 01.2008
Customer Service Unit
Dulux
03.1997 - 05.1999
Advanced Negotiation as a life skill - undefined
IMM
Certificate in Sales and Marketing - undefined
Damelin
Certificate of Higher Education - undefined
Dinwiddie High School