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Melbourne, VIC, AU

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

• Company Profile:Service Stream Limited is an ASX300 company, a provider of essential network services to the telecommunications, energy and water industries. Service Stream operates out of more than 40 locations.
• Implemented a Strategy to established new and reduce existing Suppliers to those with National networks, web ordering, and National Account Management to provide indirect goods and services, greatly reducing scouring.
• Sourced, qualified and implemented Strategic Supply Agreements with tier one solar panel Manufactures and Suppliers enabling operations to tender for contracts specifying brands.
• Established a National Supplier Non-conformance system, with reporting capability, measuring Supplier performance by providing statistical analysis.
• Improved Stakeholder communication by aligning Procurement Portfolios, elevating the visibility of the Procurement team, increasing the effectiveness and interaction promoting more direct and personal communication.
• Successfully negotiated and implemented a National Freight Procurement internet process, reductions time and effort across multiple Business Units. E.g. Real-time quotes, JIT pick-ups, and deliveries, with on-line cost.

Melbourne, Australia

• Company Profile: BlueScope Steel Limited is an ASX 100 Company flat product steel producer, and Distributor, with more than 100 facilities in 17 countries, employing around 14,000 people with operations in Australia.
• Strategically worked to achieve significant buy price cost savings through sourcing new Suppliers and negotiating with the existing by 20% equivalent to 1 million dollars per annum
• Negotiated various Supply and Service Agreements delivering balanced commercial terms & conditions and favourable payment terms, additional 30-90 days, reduced working capital by approx. $2 million.
• Successfully implemented a Monthly National Forecasting Process, in collaboration with Stakeholders, Increased Customer supply satisfaction, DIFOT in the high 90%, improved funds in use position by 40%, with.
• Initiated Strategy, negotiated Supply Agreements with overseas manufactures to reduce or split their MOQs across multiple shipment and destinations, reducing overall spend, DOI, and SLOB inventory.
• Introduced and managed International Cost Price Tracking, determining the optimal time to source, analysing the movements of Commodities, AUD, and Non-variables, enabling the business to predict buy price. Show less

Melbourne, Australia

• Role Profile:Developed and managed National Procurement Strategies for the Pipeline and Fittings Category with an annual purchasing spend of $16 million across BlueScope Divisions. Negotiation and implementation of.
• Developed… Show more Role Profile:Developed and managed National Procurement Strategies for the Pipeline and Fittings Category with an annual purchasing spend of $16 million across BlueScope Divisions. Negotiation and.
• Developed and managed National Procurement Strategy, for decreasing company’s dependence on current market dominate Chinese manufacture, qualifying and sourcing from a new manufacture to Australia. My Strategy was.
• Identified and initiated a Procurement Strategy for an under preforming product category, Quality, Price and supply reliability made the category uncompetitive. My market research survey identified a quality.
• Implemented a Strategy reducing the Risk associated with importing a product category direct from China, appointing an Import Trader to manage the process, and negotiating an open book price with 180 payment terms..
• Initiated and implemented Fittings Alignment Strategy, identified non-core SKU’s not adding value to the sale, and distribution of core products, presented a Strategy and analysis of exiting to the Lead Management.

Melbourne, Australia

• Role Profile:Implement and support BlueScope Sheet Metal Supplies Division long term Supply Chain Strategy. Determine best practices across the National Sheet & Coil Inventory, and Supply Chain Planning Teams.
• Developed and Implemented… Show more Role Profile:Implement and support BlueScope Sheet Metal Supplies Division long term Supply Chain Strategy. Determine best practices across the National Sheet & Coil Inventory, and.
• Developed and Implemented processes for the Finished Goods Project, a move away from processing. Developed improvements including, B2B, Documenting inter-company Processes, Forecasting Improvements, Simplified Pricing.
• Managed and coordinated Inventory Relocation Project. Management of Cutover Plans for Inventory the transfer of 13,000 tonne, material planning and distribution set-up for SAP system. The project successfully completed.

Melbourne, Australia

• Role Profile:Develop SAP based solutions to meet business requirements for the BlueScope Sheet & Coil Processing’s Services Division. Identify areas for improvement, presenting findings to cross-functional management.
• Designed and implemented a national online Product Life… Show more Role Profile:Develop SAP based solutions to meet business requirements for the BlueScope Sheet & Coil Processing’s Services Division. Identify areas.
• Designed and implemented a national online Product Life Cycle Management (PLCM) database and process identifying best practice, with online purchasing authorisation flow and follow up process. Benefits included control.
• Implementation an automated purchasing process using SAP, that reduced the manual purchasing effort by 50-70%.
• Developed and implemented a product stratification and management process, reducing unplanned inventory from 20% to 4%.
• Designed and implemented a National process for Non-Conforming Product control and reporting systems to comply with ISO 9001, reducing the volume non-value adding inventory. Show less

Melbourne, Australia

• Role Profile:Lead state procurement and inventory team across three business divisions, managing the sourcing and procurement of both local and overseas products. Managing inventory levels of $55 million, 50,000 tonnes.
• Managed relocation and inventory reduction projects resulting in site savings and inventory reductions of 25-30%.
• Planned and managed SAP inventory and planning Implementation as the state process owner, completed with minimal disruption to the Business, and Customers. Show less