Reuben Helberg

Duties:

Sourcing suppliers:

Find new and efficient suppliers that meet company criteria, that provide the best pricing and service with reasonable payment terms (B-BBEE included). Local and International.

Supplier Negotiations:

Negotiate Terms & Conditions with suppliers as well as pricing, payment terms and delivery schedules.

International Procurement:

• Importing and clearing from China/Taiwan/India
• Procurement and buying of international goods related to production and sales and working towards a model stock (Including doing the model stock calculation)

Budget Management:

Minimize Procurement related costs by optimizing spending and working within budgetary constraints.

Developed a file to track and maintain purchasing from specific suppliers and budgets loaded against each.

Cost Analysis:

Compare and analyze pricing from various suppliers. Draw up purchasing proposals to make the most informed and cost efficient buying decisions.

Purchase order Management:

Generate purchase orders and manage procurement documentation.

Other duties:

• Develop and implement Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
• Landed cost tracking
• Tracking and maintaining material costs of items
• Creating costing modules for relative, marginal, actual and landed costings
• Tracking and updating of all shipments incoming and outstanding, materials included, and payments made as well
• Updating and maintenance of Bills of materials
• Inventory forecasting and planning
• Stretched thus far for 3 months in advance (To account for shipping and manufacturing lead times)
• Daily/weekly/monthly sundry buying
• Manage inventory movements (GIT, SCT, WIP)
• Manage stock levels of 3,800+ SKUs on component level, and 1,200+ SKUs on finished goods level
• Creating and maintaining production/assembly plans, distributed twice a week based on order/project urgency
• Assist branches in stock maintenance and stock levels
• Provide technical assistance and resolving daily queries
• Obtained a 99.5% infill rate on brass/plastics/bought out items for production schedule, rolling average of 96%
• Secured sufficient materials and components to achieve the highest turnover month in the company’s history
• Have secured orders in place providing material infill for 120 days, on historical figures, as well as factoring in a growth %

• Planning of raw material and coil processing for Steel Manufacturing Plant
• Planning for cut to length line for in-group needs and cutting for external customers
• Nesting and planning slitting for raw materials for all departments within manufacturing
• Stock-take in all departments (including preparations)
• Solving queries
• Creation and maintenance of various spreadsheets i.e., outstanding orders reports, monthly and daily production graphs for all production and sales in each department
• Creating and maintaining material forecast plans
• Planning and capturing of daily production in all sections
• Receipting of all required stock to reflect on system
• Ensure BOM’s are up to date and correct
• Quotations for coils, slit coils and flat sheets
• Planning of monthly purchasing requirements on raw materials for processing
• Submit monthly purchase orders to suppliers within required due dates
• Sundry buying (e.g., Office supplies, tooling, strapping)
• Comparing and negotiating prices from suppliers
• Buying of necessary materials for production based on forecast
• All purchase orders for materials to be signed off by General Manager and operations manager

• Promote the company and regain business from current and possible new clients
• Reason for leaving: Covid 19 – Nonessential services

• Various administrative duties - filing, preparing supplier documentation for processing
• Assisting in factory getting printed jobs completed and ready for delivery to customers
• Reason for leaving: Casual / Temporary position (Holiday job)