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Sibongile Mtshweni

Summary

Analytical, strategic, and results-driven MCIP Procurement and Supply Chain professional with over 20 years of experience in supply chain management. Proven track record of optimizing operations and driving efficiency. Highly skilled in strategic sourcing, contract management, supplier development and relationship management, total cost of ownership negotiations, strategic category/commodity procurement, demand forecasting, transportation management, and process improvement. Builds collaborative partnerships that deliver value and drive mutual support. Trusted sounding board in critical decision-making scenarios. Strong organizational and planning capabilities ensure efficient financial analysis. Exceptional problem-solving skills to navigate challenges and implement solutions. Clear and concise communication skills, both orally and in writing. Ability to work efficiently as part of a team and maintain cooperative working relationships with coworkers at different levels. Highly proficient in using Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
2023
2023
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

Senior Supply Chain Manager

Beyond Zero
08.2023 - 10.2024
  • The role entails executing procurement activities to implement the Global Fund comprehensive services across the HIV and TB care programmes in South Africa, targeting key and vulnerable populations
  • Develop and maintain an appropriate procurement framework for Health products and non-Health products
  • Develop and update BZ's procurement policy and procedures to aid good governance, compliance with donor requirements and improve operational performance
  • Keep abreast for donor procurement requirements in grant agreements and ensure BZ compliance
  • Develop tools, forms and systems for an efficient and effective procurement system
  • Support BZ staff to comply with procurement requirements and implement capacity building support interventions
  • Participate in the Quantification Committee for health products procurement
  • Lead the development of an organization wide demand plan
  • Develop and implement a procurement plan that responds to the demand plan and any other emergency procurement requests
  • Identify opportunities for improvements leading to decreased costs, through standardization and aggregation of goods and services with the overall to achieve cost savings benefits
  • Manage the process of enlisting and screening preferred and sole suppliers in compliance with the principles guiding BZ procurement and the donor requirements
  • Perform due diligence on potential suppliers
  • Develop and maintain strategic relationships with key suppliers
  • Ensure maintenance and periodic update of supplier database including the category of goods and services they offer
  • Perform ongoing supplier evaluations and take appropriate action, including termination of the relationship, where possible
  • Collate and analyze spend data for the execution of category management initiatives that will lead to process efficiencies and cost benefits including
  • Develop and deploy commodity management strategies and deliver value through strategic sourcing
  • Establish an effective system of risk identification, consideration, mitigation and avoidance of potential risks within the procurement processes
  • Lead the process of developing tender bid documents
  • Manage the end-to-end tender process - Prepare, issue and adjudicate tenders
  • Compile tender evaluation, adjudication, and recommendation reports, in line with BZ procurement policy
  • Facilitate the establishment of a tender committee (BSC, BEC & BAC) and ensure that its membership is diverse with appropriate skills base
  • Chair the meetings of the tender committee and ensure all proceedings are minuted
  • Craft negotiation strategies and lead major negotiations with suppliers to secure advantageous terms, ensuring value for money, quality standards and delivery terms
  • Facilitate timely placement of purchase orders
  • Review purchase orders for proper authorization and compliance with BZ's policy and procedures
  • Facilitate the drafting of contract agreements for suppliers
  • Review procurement contracts and any other related agreements to ensure that BZ's interests are protected
  • Review and negotiate existing contract agreements to optimize commercial terms
  • Maintain an accurate and up to date database of current contracts including annual review of contracts
  • Manage, coach and develop high performing procurement team that meet agreed objectives, and which deliver best practice results, added value and continuous improvements
  • Set departmental objectives/KPIs and review and assess ongoing performance of direct reports
  • Develop and maintain strategic relationships with key external (suppliers / service providers) and internal (EXCO/SMT) stakeholders
  • Maintain and update preferred supplier database, and registers for POs, RFPs and RFIs
  • Identify supplier development initiatives together with business and execute supplier development strategy to actualize the B-BBEE scorecard requirements
  • Eliminate wasteful, irregular and unauthorized expenditure within SCM process
  • Promote value for money in all procurement activities
  • Ensure fairness and transparency and promote equity and diversity in the appointment of suppliers and service providers
  • Manage and monitor compliance with procurement policies and procedures
  • Key Achievement: Increased the NPC burn-rate from 25% to 65% through procurement executing procurement activities and ensuring programs are implemented
  • Reason for leaving: Contract employment

Senior Buyer/Commercial Analyst

Anglo American Platinum
11.2022 - 08.2023
  • The role entailed executing end-to-end project procurement activities for the Smelters commodities by defining contract strategies for EPC / EPCM, Civil Construction works, including Professional Services such as QA/QC Inspections
  • Develop procurement strategies, management plans, and operating plans to support the execution of expansion, replacement, stay-in business (SIB), housing, infrastructure and social performance projects
  • Internal stakeholder management - Ensure alignment of procurement strategies through consultation with Anglo American Group and Business unit category managers, operations / site supply chain managers, local supplier development officer and other stakeholders
  • External stakeholder management - Identify prospective suppliers and ensure preferential procurement objectives are achieved
  • Tender processing management (end-to-end) - Prepare, issue, adjudicate tenders and provide recommendations on sourcing strategy based on market responses
  • Contract management - administer new and executed contracts to close out
  • Manage and maintain B-BBEE targets for Supplier development and preferential procurement
  • Identify supplier development initiatives together with business and execute the supplier development strategy to actualize B-BBEE scorecard requirements
  • Reason for leaving: Contract employment

Category Specialist

Total Energies South Africa (Pty) Ltd
08.2022 - 10.2022
  • The role entailed executing MRO procurement activities by defining contract strategies, implementing longterm contract agreements with suppliers using defined indexes and defined supplier performance metrics, which consider all Total SA HSSE, legal and commercial aspects
  • Supporting ongoing contract management, including compliance to contractual terms by the suppliers; management of contract expiry and renegotiation of contracts - contract register maintenance
  • Ensuring the mechanics of the contracts, as well as the risks, are understood by all impacted stakeholders
  • Working with business, cross functional teams, and Group to understand and, where possible, optimize the local and regional business requirements for third party goods and services
  • Defining and implementing sourcing strategies to ensure projects across multiple end users are delivered within timelines as per business plans and category and procurement strategies
  • Analyzing external and internal drivers of the category profile and understand supply chain and TCO reduction opportunities and apply benchmarking
  • Analyzing past spend as well as forecast spend and savings by commodity/business unit/location
  • Applying best practice sourcing tools and methodologies including execution of sourcing events with e-sourcing technology (SAP Ariba)
  • Stakeholder management: develop and maintain strategic relationships with key external (suppliers / service providers) and internal (cross functional teams, end-users, SMT) stakeholders
  • Reason for leaving: Contract employment

Sourcing Manager

Wabtec South Africa
03.2021 - 06.2021
  • Responsible for localization of strategic components supplied into the manufacturing of the brake subsystems and related products for locomotives, freight cars and passenger transit vehicles
  • Leading the development and execution of local and internal sourcing strategies
  • Capturing the local content and configuration for manufacturing items
  • Contract management: negotiating pricing and contract terms with suppliers
  • Supplier selection, development, and supplier consolidation to ensure Sourcing optimization and overall supplier performance
  • Performing detailed cost analysis of components & manufacturing processes used by suppliers to ensure highest quality at the lowest cost solution
  • Leading sourcing execution for assigned commodity(s) or suppliers, including full accountability for buy and make parts, meeting deflation targets
  • Monitoring supplier quality and delivery performance and developing improvement strategies to ensure business needs are met
  • Partnering with key business stakeholders to ensure sourced material and services meet the needs of the business
  • Manage and place purchase orders as required by the MRP and Material Planning Manager
  • Manage acknowledgments and commitments from suppliers to ensure on-time availability and delivery of materials and components for production
  • Reason for leaving: Contract employment

Snr Procurement Officer/Project Procurement Manager

Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions South Africa (Pty) Ltd
03.2011 - 02.2020
  • The role entailed executing end-to-end strategic project procurement management adhering to departmental strategic objectives (from need identification, sourcing the market, negotiating contract terms, maintenance of project contract register, timeous review and system update of amendments to contract terms and price, contract performance evaluation, and contract close-out, managing and reporting on the project execution plan)
  • Investigating and implementing initiatives from NoE (Network of Excellence) Procurement Engineering
  • Part of SAP/ERP system rollout (star user) user) and responsible for training the procurement staff on the procurement MM module
  • Investigating and implementing LCC (Low Cost Country) sourcing strategy
  • Stakeholder management: communicate with internal customers and external suppliers with regard to project procurement requirements (managing Purchase Requisitions and Specifications)
  • Ensuring procurement compliance, conduct regular supplier visits, procurement audits and supplier evaluation performance reviews
  • Managing various project resources (budgets, assets, human resources, etc.) within the business unit to ensure efficient operations
  • Supplier management (order expediting, order changes, price queries, adherence to contractual obligations, KPI's, and overall performance management in terms of quality, savings, safety, warranty, payment terms, and on time in full delivery)
  • Managing project procurement reporting (supply risk, contractual risk, foreign currency risk, close-outs and supplier performance evaluation, etc.)
  • Performing cost analysis and benchmarking of suppliers
  • Maintain and update procurement SOPs and policy
  • Key Achievements: Sourced the first lime plant in Zambia (was a green field) contract value EUR 250mil
  • SAP Star-user implemented the system upgrade to create system synergies for reporting purposes and production waste control
  • Reason for leaving: Retrenched

OE Regional Buyer/Commodity Buyer

Ford Motor Company of South Africa (Pty) Ltd
03.2007 - 02.2011
  • Managing Country Buyers in Asia Pacific and Africa Region on commodity KPI's achievement
  • Manage Economic (labour overheads) & Forex Adjustments negotiations including packaging, timing and payment terms
  • Supporting model-year change Projects through continuous improvement initiatives
  • Managing, maintaining, and achieving Business Plan for commodities responsible for
  • Managing components development with suppliers from design and sourcing routes
  • Managing strategic Sourcing of parts locally and internationally (capacity planning, supply risk and constraints and forecast requirements based on production schedule, current stock levels, critical parts and long lead times parts)
  • Investigating alternative materials in line with drawing specifications
  • Reason for leaving: Better prospects

OE Buyer/Commodity Buyer

BMW South Africa (Pty) Ltd
10.2004 - 02.2007
  • The responsibility of the role was to procure high quality Front and Rear Axle components, efficiently and effectively, delivered at the right place, in the right quantity, at the right time and at the right price for all vehicle models produced at the Rosslyn manufacturing plant
  • Responsible and accountable for the sourcing processes, ongoing costs and quality reviews, and the timeous introduction thereof
  • Responsible for promoting the most cost-effective use of company resources in the sourcing and industrialization of components for OE and P&A with local and internal suppliers
  • Establishing short/medium/long-term plans regarding price/cost reduction targets, supply quality improvements and extended warranty conditions
  • Responsible for controlling the ZA-T-M supplier management system regarding procedures, work instructions and site-standards in accordance with ISO 9000 specifications
  • Managing all activities regarding the update, issue, and control of the BMW Standard Purchasing Conditions
  • Reason for leaving: Contract employment

Data Capturer/Creditors Clerk

DFM: Daimler Chrysler
05.2004 - 10.2004
  • Processing of creditors' tax invoices, ensuring that invoices received meet pre-set VAT requirements, arranging payment with suppliers according to agreed payment terms, ensuring proof of payment is received by relevant suppliers and filling all documents according to regulation stipulation
  • Reason for leaving: Contract employment

Purchasing Agent/Buyer

Vantico Ag (Incl. Switzerland)
11.2001 - 02.2004
  • Procurement of chemicals (i.e
  • Bonding agents, resins, etc) from Switzerland to South Africa, manage SAP R/3 MRP module ensuring timeous stock replacement by converting PRs to POs, liaising with the warehouse manager with regard to stock levels and GRVs, assist with periodic stocktaking, liaise with freight forwarders and prepare shipping documentation
  • Reason for leaving: Retrenched

Recruitment Agent

Le Roux & Associates (Pty) Ltd
01.2001 - 10.2001
  • The primary responsibility of the role was to advertise vacant client positions, receive and capture CVs in the organization's template, screen CVs and shortlist qualifying candidates, and contact and schedule interview appointments with the candidates
  • Reason for leaving: Better prospects

Education

Professional Diploma in Procurement & Supply Chain - Procurement And Supply Chain

Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply Chain (CIPS)

Diploma in Procurement & Supply Chain - Level 4

Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply Chain (CIPS)

Diploma in Business Management - undefined

Damelin Business College

Certificate in Business Admin & Management - undefined

Damelin Business College

Grade Twelve (12) - undefined

Deutsche Schule Pretoria

Skills

Affiliations

Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply Chain (CIPS)

Timeline

Senior Supply Chain Manager

Beyond Zero
08.2023 - 10.2024

Senior Buyer/Commercial Analyst

Anglo American Platinum
11.2022 - 08.2023

Category Specialist

Total Energies South Africa (Pty) Ltd
08.2022 - 10.2022

Sourcing Manager

Wabtec South Africa
03.2021 - 06.2021

Snr Procurement Officer/Project Procurement Manager

Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions South Africa (Pty) Ltd
03.2011 - 02.2020

OE Regional Buyer/Commodity Buyer

Ford Motor Company of South Africa (Pty) Ltd
03.2007 - 02.2011

OE Buyer/Commodity Buyer

BMW South Africa (Pty) Ltd
10.2004 - 02.2007

Data Capturer/Creditors Clerk

DFM: Daimler Chrysler
05.2004 - 10.2004

Purchasing Agent/Buyer

Vantico Ag (Incl. Switzerland)
11.2001 - 02.2004

Recruitment Agent

Le Roux & Associates (Pty) Ltd
01.2001 - 10.2001

Diploma in Procurement & Supply Chain - Level 4

Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply Chain (CIPS)

Diploma in Business Management - undefined

Damelin Business College

Certificate in Business Admin & Management - undefined

Damelin Business College

Grade Twelve (12) - undefined

Deutsche Schule Pretoria

Professional Diploma in Procurement & Supply Chain - Procurement And Supply Chain

Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply Chain (CIPS)

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