Nelisiwe Zanele Mkhabela
Procurement Specialist
Dunnottar
Summary
Highly organized Procurement Specialist with over 8 years of experience who excel within their scope of duties and responsibilities. Thriving to constantly reduce cost and increasing the quality of materials and services provided while maintaining long lasting relationship.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
38
38
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Buyer
Gibela Rail Consortium
10.2023 - Current
- Identify and evaluate potential suppliers, assess their capabilities and negotiate contracts.
- Determine historical spend.
- Forecast future demand based on business unit plans.
- Liase with external supplier and market researchers to understand market trends and cost drivers.
- Consolidate the Indirect spent per commodity to formulate a strategy.
- Liaise with central on the market codes and the impact it has on daily operations.
- Change agent between internal stakeholders.
- Consolidate price escalation indexes on a yearly basis, ensuring the process starts 3 months in advance vs the base date.
- Align with legal team and formulate strategic direction regarding standard contract conditions for Gibela use in Procurement of assets, goods, and services.
- Provide standard conditions of tendering for use throughout Gibela.
- Advise on use of standard contracts and special contracts.
- Advise on contracting and tendering strategy and contracting process strategy.
- Identify new legislation which will affect Gibela’s Procurement environment and advise on appropriate action with regards to contractual policy and legal perspective.
- Responsible for contract management and supplier management during the contract phase.
- Identify developments and triggers for future demand shifts.
- Determine their impact on Procurement activities.
- Assist the Indirect Manager and Lead to develop sourcing strategies.
- Map commodity sourcing performance against set targets/KPIs and identify risk areas.
- Track and report contract performance summary.
Input Material Sourcing Specialist
Sasol South Africa-Petrochemical (SASOL)
05.2021 - 10.2023
- Responsible for procuring mining explosives and chemicals.
- Help with establishment of new processes, policies, and technologies.
- Secure proper execution of procurement processes and policies.
- Be involved in contract negotiations and maintain contract prices on all orders placed.
- Manage stock and ensure orders are delivered and OTIF is achieved.
- Manage delivery cost allocation for Import orders.
- Manage the daily health checks of the team (unactioned requisitions, RFQ no Po and Overdue orders).
- Responsible for the VAT compliance report and Marine declarations.
- Be available to act on behalf of the procurement manager if requested.
- Strong leadership skills, including ability to motivate and manage people.
- Deep understanding of strategic sourcing methods and approaches and an ability to apply various concept to category-level activities at the client.
- Negotiating agreements with main suppliers and periodically renewing price lists and terms and conditions.
- Analyzing and evaluating bids to determine the optimal value, supporting bid and proposal teams by providing relevant market information and tracking goods received to verify appropriate delivery and ensure invoice processing.
Buyer (Mechanical & Electrical procurement)
Sasol South Africa-Petrochemical (SASOL)
04.2015 - 05.2021
- Manage overall process for Purchase Orders (PO's) in terms of Procure-to-Pay to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of process.
- Manage average time from Purchase-to-Purchase order conversion.
- Liaise with the clearing and forwarding team to arrange transportation.
- Ensure pre-payment with all import’s orders are completed and accurately so.
- Manage stock balances and levels before working on a PR.
- Plan, Manage and ensure delivery of shut down stock (May, June, and September).
- Trigger MRP to issue a PR when stock level is on a critical stage.
- Ensure savings are obtained for the portfolio in hand.
- Manage all imports orders in the mechanical space.
- Execute procurement process to ensure that cycle times are met, and bottlenecks resolved.
- Adhere to all Sasol's procurement policies and procedures, including SOX requirements.
- Interpret demand signals to create purchase orders for services and ensure timely PO close-out.
- Overall OTIF delivery on purchase orders created.
- Ensure the BBBEE objective set for each year are achieved.
- Execute all expediting activities for PO's created late / overdue purchase orders resolved in a timely manner.
- Be accountable for timely escalation with suppliers in cases of delivery time or quality breaches.
- Issues identified, recorded, mitigated, and where applicable, escalated appropriately.
- Enforce collaboration and integration amongst suppliers and end-users to embed and enforce the perception of a single supply chain.
- OTIF delivery across multiple suppliers, potentially outside of portfolio.
- Ensure suppliers are adequately aware of all requirements and protocols (SHE risks, etc.) to enable them to render a service to Sasol.
- No supplier breaches or non-conformance incidents because of suppliers not being aware of requirements and protocols.
- Processing of all requests relating to batch purchase orders in accordance with the prescribed governance and within the agreed SLA.
Education
B-Tech degree - Logistics
Vaal University of Technology
04.2001 - 04.2015
High School Diploma -
Amilak Training Centre
Johannesburg, South Africa 04.2001 - Current
High School - undefined
Mbambiso High School
Skills
- Leadership Management
- BBBEE and Supply Chain Management
- Contract Management
- Sourcing
- Compliance
- Supplier Management
- Microsoft Word/Excel/PPT
Personal Information
- ID Number: 9204270519084
- Driving License: C1
Leadership Experience
Contact person: Allen Sithebe
Position: Sourcing Manager
Company: Gibela Rail Consortium
Telephone No: 081 047 5468
Contact person: Jerry Zwane
Position: Senior Manager Procurement
Company : Sasol
Telephone No: 083 276 0668
Contact person: Eunice Tsheisi
Position: Team leader Electrical and instrumentation
Company: Sasol
Telephone No: 082 880 0504
Timeline
Buyer
Gibela Rail Consortium
10.2023 - Current
Input Material Sourcing Specialist
Sasol South Africa-Petrochemical (SASOL)
05.2021 - 10.2023
Buyer (Mechanical & Electrical procurement)
Sasol South Africa-Petrochemical (SASOL)
04.2015 - 05.2021
B-Tech degree - Logistics
Vaal University of Technology
04.2001 - 04.2015
High School Diploma -
Amilak Training Centre
04.2001 - Current
High School - undefined
Mbambiso High School
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