Bob Anthony Buranday, Mba Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Ab, Ca

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Polomolok, South Cotabato, Philippines

CENTRAL LOGISTICS/GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINResponsibilities:• Planned, directed, and guided manufacturing divisions (Dole Philippines, Dole Thailand, Co-Packers) in order to ensure supply stability of the company’s existing and established businesses, as well as its new growth areas• Coordinated closely with Dole Food Company`s global market teams (USA, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania) and each manufacturing division`s supply chain groups in order to ensure worldwide market demands are supported• Participated in the preparation of the annual and periodic production and shipment plans• Analyzed data for the annual and periodic supply and demand forecasts• Negotiated and validated the prices of finished goods being produced by Co-packers, as well as the prices of raw materials purchased from them• Performed appropriate and necessary risk and sensitivity analysesProduct lines handled:• Dried Fruits• MG3 (Pineapple) items - Individually Quick Frozen (IQF) MG3 and Canned MG3 items onlyNotable contributions:• Pioneered, developed, and established the workflow and work files for Dried Fruits and MG3 production and shipment planning as these two product families are technically new in Central Logistics Department• Reduced the product costs of several Dried Fruit items by correcting the costing assumptions and computations, conducting comparative analysis between different production/sourcing options, and recommending the most cost effective and efficient option that the company must pursue (all of which were executed/followed)• Negotiated 2015 Co-packer Prices are the same with the 2014 Prices or have increased not higher than the budgeted inflation rate of 5%• Managed to keep the negotiated 2016 Co-packer Prices for Banana Chips to be at par with the 2015 Co-packer Prices

Polomolok, South Cotabato, Philippines

BUDGET & COST CONTROLResponsibilities:• Participated in the preparation of the annual plan, budgeting, and forecasting• Generated, maintained, and analyzed reports and data for periodic business unit reviews and business process improvements• Provided cost and general ledger accounting support during the period end close proces• Provided concerned divisions/departments with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to drive performance• Developed standard costs: - Fruit Cost (Pineapple) - Product costs (Processed and Packaged Fresh Fruits) - Service rates (Heavy Mobile Equipment, Farm Implements, Service Vehicles)Divisions supported:• Agriculture Operations, Research & Development• Engineering & Technical Services• Human Resources• Finance & Supply Chain• Quality Assurance• Information Technology• Central LogisticsProduct lines handled:• Processed Fruits: - Fruits in Plastic Cups, Jars, and Flex Pouches including Dried Fruits - Individually Quick Frozen Fruits (IQF) - Tropical Fruit Cocktail/Salad - Nata de Coco• Fresh Fruits: - Fresh PineapplesNotable Contributions:• Fine-tuned product costing by improving the integrity of each cost components especially the packaging materials cost• Implemented Paperless Projects and at the same time streamlined routine processes i.e. Electronic Item Cost Summary (eICS) Requests for Processed Fruits• Simplified and enhanced regular reports and cost monitoring worksheets i.e. Divisional Budget Performance Reports, ICS Assumption Report, Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Report, Overtime Percentage Report, Equipment Maintenance Cost Charge-out, Depreciation Schedule, Budget Book, etc.• Computed Service Rates of Agri-Mobile Equipment Fleets that previously does not have any Service Rates• Part of the team handling the Agri-System Enhancement, focusing on the capturing of costs and statisitics related to Agri-Mobile Equipment and Farm Implements and the automatic generation of related reports

Polomolok, South Cotabato, Philippines

ACCOUNTINGResponsibilities:• Maintained, updated, and managed Fixed Assets additions, depreciation, disposals, impairments, sales, and transfers in order to document and record all transactions related to Fixed Assets• Prepared and analyzed periodic reports in order to ensure that the Fixed Assets Master File is reconciled with the General Ledger• Reconciled and analyzed Fixed Assets inventory listings versus JD Edwards's Fixed Assets Master File in order to ensure that existing assets are recorded and updated• Reconciled Tax Dexlaration listings versus Fixed Assets inventory listings in order to ensure that the company is paying the correct and accurate property tax• Prepared journal entries for all transactions related to Fixed Assets in order to record movementsNotable contributions:• Corrected depreciation expense allocation issues that caused accumulated depreciation to be greater than asset cost• Fixed a data integrity problem that had been present and had been never resolved ever since the migration to JD Edwards• Implemented an overall clean up of the Fixed Assets record in order to ascertain that the record reflects the actual present and operational Fixed Assets• Organized and developed a tagging scheme for ease in the identification and monitoring of actual Fixed Assets• Created a Tax Declaration Master File wherein Tax Declarations are matched to their corresponding Fixed Assets for ease of distinguishing which Tax Declaration should be cancelled from the Municipal Asessor's record• Saved the company from annually paying (around Php3M) property taxes being taxed on Fixed Assets that had long been non-existing and non-operational, which had been dutifully paid by the company for the past years

Polomolok, South Cotabato, Philippines

INVENTORY MANAGEMENTResponsibilities:• Matched and summarized invoices against Receiving Reports daily and submit Receiving Reports to Accounting• Reconciled issued Material Requisition and Information Slips (MRIS) against weekly count• Prepared Purchase Orders (PO) for reconciled items daily• Compiled Delivery Receipts and Weight Tags of Agriculture Division's fertilizers• Prepared Weekly and Periodic Reconciliation Reports for Agriculture Division and Fresh Fruit Operations' hi-use materials• Assisted consignors during weekly physical counts• Prepared Weekly and Periodic Reconciliation Reports for consignment items

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

certified equivalent to a Canadian master’s degree by World Education Services (WES)

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), International Business

Activities and Societies: SFU Student Council Treasurer, SFU Computer Society Member, Cradle (SFU’s Performing Arts Club).

Secondary Education

Activities and Societies: DPS Student Council Treasurer