To be a part of an organisation where I add value from gained experience and insight; one that will recognise my capabilities, enrich my knowledge, and support me in reaching my full potential.
Hi, I’m
Zandile Yaka
Supply Chain / Industrial Engineering
Durban
Summary
Overview
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Ramsay Engineering – Automotive
Purchasing Manager
09.2021 - 05.2022
Job overview
- Managing the company’s Purchasing Department by leading a team that is responsible for sourcing suppliers and purchasing direct and indirect goods and services.
- Internal stakeholder alignment to understand company requirements.
- Supplier search and due diligence.
- Supplier tendering and RFQ process management.
- Supplier selection.
- Contract management [supplier monitoring and performance].
- Develop and maintain a user-friendly supplier base for internal use.
- Ensure goods are purchased timeously.
- Ensure departmental KPIs are met.
- Daily team engagements for effective management and performance.
- Reason for leaving: Distance impacted work-life balance.
Eguchi Iwao SA – Automotive
Supply Chain Manager
05.2018 - 09.2020
Job overview
- Responsible for managing the company’s supply chain through responsible sourcing, and ensuring accurate ordering for optimum stock holding while maintaining healthy margins and upholding supplier and customer relationships through day to day engagements.
- Interpretation of forecasts
- Order calculation and management
- Logistics planning [departure and arrival of goods for on-time delivery]
- Supplier and customer management
- Daily team engagements for effective management
- Customer monthly reports
- Customer monthly meetings
- Product sourcing and pricing
- Preparation of quotations for customers with an emphasis on expanding business and maintaining margins.
- Oversee product storage, handling and despatch
- Generate reports, and develop documents to help customers understand the logistics perspective
- Warehouse staff management and development
- Oversee SHE activities
- Oversee warehouse maintenance activities.
- Reason for leaving: Retrenchment.
Unilever SA - FMCG
Assistant Logistics Procurement Manager
02.2016 - 04.2018
Job overview
- Responsible for managing the Warehouse buying portfolio for South Africa with an annual spend of 40 million euros across all networks [ambient/frozen/chilled] including finished goods and raw materials.
- Conduct supplier negotiations
- Manage supplier relationships and closely interact with top management of suppliers
- Assist in developing the supplier and portfolio strategy for Warehousing in Africa.
- To benchmark costs, participate in projects to drive continuous improvement programmes to meet the aggressive targets.
- Carry out benchmarking exercises across the region for identifying potential new opportunities or negotiating with existing suppliers.
- Provide reporting information for various global projects.
- Resolve costing related issues.
- Resolve capacity related issues especially in high growth dynamic environment.
- Resolve payment escalations and queries between internal teams and suppliers.
- Close collaboration with internal teams.
- Closely track 3PL market and other microeconomic indicators for forecasting price movements.
- Scout for new suppliers to meet requirements for new projects.
- Cater to the increased global regional requirements of benchmarking, data analysis and reporting.
- Reason for leaving: Career growth
Toyota SA Manufacturers – Automotive
Principal Engineer
06.2011 - 01.2016
Job overview
- Design and development of External Logistics processes
- Create Standard Operating Procedures for all logistics operations in order to improve truckload and warehouse labour efficiencies (Inbound truck off-loading, material put-away, material picking, and outbound truck loading processes).
- Supplier training and support
- Route and transportation planning (analysis of data)
- Budgets and cost management
- Product Brief replies: Analyse and confirm impact of new projects to External Logistics Division
- Prepare Master timing plan for preparation of start of new projects/models
- Undertake Continuous Improvement projects
- Ensure safety is designed into all new and existing processes and operations
- Identify safety hazards and find countermeasure to prevent incidents.
- Provide Project Status Feedback to Management.
- Coordinate with suppliers for effective supply of goods
- Daily liaison with Logistics Service Providers for effective supply of goods
- Analyse agreements with subcontractors and manage them
- Reason for leaving: Career growth
Smiths Manufacturing (PTY) Ltd. – Automotive
TIE (Total Industrial Engineering) Engineer
04.2008 - 12.2009
Job overview
- Establish and present to senior management improvement ideas that are cost saving initiatives.
- Collaborate with other division members to ensure the success of each new project and/or to improve the efficiency of existing projects.
- Design and present suitable systems for improved efficiency in production with an emphasis on material conveyance.
- Designing a new production line layout (with an emphasis on SHEQ) and redesigning existing layouts to improve performance.
- Establish areas for Kaizen (Continuous Improvement) activities and set up task team to improve the area.
- Conduct basic training on IE tools: 5S, 5Whys, JIT, 7 Wastes
- Packaging and dunnage designs, supplier liaison, cost saving and implementation.
- Create work instructions after implementing or changing a certain work method and train operators to conform to new instructions.
- Conduct time studies and set standard times to calculate manpower requirements to support optimization of production processes.
- Establish production process of new projects and evaluate existing processes to find ways to improve and cut down on production costs.
- Establishing material flow from the receiving bay through to the production lines.
- Manipulating Bill of Materials using People Soft (JDE) for Material Analysis.
- Reason for leaving: Family responsibility. [Family relocated]
Bell Equipment – Manufacturing [Earth Moving Vehicles]
Industrial Engineer
10.2007 - 03.2008
Job overview
- Application of process evaluation techniques, such as time and method studies, line balancing and activity sampling.
- Factory/workplace/office layout design and improvements to enhance material handling and process efficiency.
- Investigation of improvement initiatives to determine cost effectiveness.
- Assist in new product launch.
- Reason for leaving: It was a contract post with not many prospects for being permanent.
Smiths Manufacturing (PTY) Ltd. – Automotive
Industrial/Logistics Engineer
01.2006 - 09.2007
Job overview
- Kanban calculations and ensuring good presentation of production lines.
- Create work instructions after implementing or changing a certain work method.
- Conducting time studies and setting standard times to calculate manpower requirements to support optimization of production processes.
- Doing a Material Analysis on production lines to ensure that the correct quantities of parts are being fed to the production line at a given point in time.
- Design and present suitable systems for improved efficiency in production with an emphasis on material conveyance.
- Redesigning existing layouts to improve performance.
- Study the factory floor to observe systems that have been implemented – where the systems are not functioning correctly – investigate reasons for failure and implement corrective action.
- Conduct basic training on IE tools: 5S, 5Whys, JIT, 7 Wastes
- Line balancing; creating work instructions after implementing or changing a work method.
- Manipulating Bill of Materials using People Soft (JDE) for Material Analysis.
- Reason for leaving: Career growth
Smiths Manufacturing (PTY) Ltd. – Automotive
Industrial Engineering Trainee
08.2004 - 12.2005
Job overview
- Kanban calculations and ensuring good presentation of production lines.
- Create work instructions after implementing or changing a certain work method.
- Conducting time studies and setting standard times to calculate manpower requirements to support optimization of production processes.
- Doing a Material Analysis on production lines to ensure that the correct quantities of parts are being fed to the production line at a given point in time.
- Design and present suitable systems for improved efficiency in production with an emphasis on material conveyance.
- Redesigning existing layouts to improve performance.
- Study the factory floor to observe systems that have been implemented – where the systems are not functioning correctly – investigate reasons for failure and implement corrective action.
- Conduct basic training on IE tools: 5S, 5Whys, JIT, 7 Wastes
- Line balancing; creating work instructions after implementing or changing a work method.
- Manipulating Bill of Materials using People Soft (JDE) for Material Analysis.
- Reason for leaving: Career growth
Education
Durban University of TechnologyKZN
B. Tech from Industrial Engineering
01.2012
University Overview
Durban University of TechnologyKZN
National Diploma from Industrial Engineering
01.2004
University Overview
Empangeni High SchoolKZN
Matriculation
01.2001
University Overview
Skills
Conflict Management & Negotiation – UCT
Lean Manufacturing (TPS) - TSAM
e-Sourcing - Unilever
Project Management
A high standard of professionalism
The ability to remain calm and objective in all situations
Able to work both autonomously and in a team environment
Able to work both autonomously and in a team environment
Ethical and target driven
Performance Management
Financial Management
Leadership and supervisory skills
Value Stream Mapping
Practical Problem Solving
Analytical and planning skills
Leadership skills
Computer and communication skills
References
References
- Nandi, Khoza, 3rd Party Procurement Manager, 078 353 5502, Unilever SA
- Anban, Govender, External Logistics Senior Manager, 082 907 8907, Toyota SA
- Ahmed, Habib, TIE Manager, 031 719 4144, 082 712 4794, Smiths Manufacturing
- Marshaln, Pather, Technical & Operations Director, 083 777 6515, Eguchi Iwao S.A.
Timeline
Purchasing Manager
Ramsay Engineering – Automotive
09.2021 - 05.2022
Supply Chain Manager
Eguchi Iwao SA – Automotive
05.2018 - 09.2020
Assistant Logistics Procurement Manager
Unilever SA - FMCG
02.2016 - 04.2018
Principal Engineer
Toyota SA Manufacturers – Automotive
06.2011 - 01.2016
TIE (Total Industrial Engineering) Engineer
Smiths Manufacturing (PTY) Ltd. – Automotive
04.2008 - 12.2009
Industrial Engineer
Bell Equipment – Manufacturing [Earth Moving Vehicles]
10.2007 - 03.2008
Industrial/Logistics Engineer
Smiths Manufacturing (PTY) Ltd. – Automotive
01.2006 - 09.2007
Industrial Engineering Trainee
Smiths Manufacturing (PTY) Ltd. – Automotive
08.2004 - 12.2005
Empangeni High School
Matriculation
Durban University of Technology
National Diploma from Industrial Engineering
Durban University of Technology
B. Tech from Industrial Engineering