Ibrahim Kaplan Email & Phone Number

Istanbul, Turkey

• Negotiating with vendors to ensure-secure the mine receive best price, discounts and delivery time on purchases.• Identifying industry trends and market development for respective material groups.• Initiating and developing cost reduction projects for assigned commodities.• Working with end users in the field as necessary, to ensure appropriate purchase decisions.• Working closely with other departments such as Engineering in order to anticipate upcoming projects and demands.• Developing current and accurate daily documentation of purchases including purchase order logs and quotations. Creating detailed RFQ package for suppliers to bid on, evaluating proposals for the commodities in the form of side by side comparisons.• Monitoring and tracking invoices to ensure timely payment and price cut opportunities.• Maintaining working relationship with suppliers critical to the mine and developing supply strategies which will ensure the supply of quality material and continually drive for lowest total cost.• Monitoring expediting report to ensure materials purchased meet required delivery time and developing local and global material group strategies.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Strategic sourcing, 2nd/3rd party alternative supplier selections• Developing contingency plans (expediting, tracking etc) when material will not meet required dates or quality• Pursuing for procurement processes to include identification of a capable supply base, issuance of detailed RFQ's, detailed negotiation of subcontract documents (price, terms, SOW, specification, product support documents, etc.).• Continuous cost negotiation (pricing&rebate discussions)• Benchmarking & best practice survey• Work with internal stakeholders to establish contracts for spare parts• Understanding supply regional market conditions and dynamics.• Following up outside operations of a production (galvanizing and painting of metals, KTL e-coating, metal coatings and painting of plastics, PVD etc)• Buying metal parts box profiles, zamak, stainless steel, galvanized etc• Following up LME (London Metal Exchange) currencies to maintain dynamic metal stocks• Checking daily for status of material sourcing to my workscope approvals coming from the vendor.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Strategic sourcing• Supply market• Benchmarking & best practice survey• Continuous cost negotiation• Assessing regional supplier performance and conduct supplier reviews• Interfacing with user groups and responsible to resolve escalation issues from suppliers and users through closure• Interfacing with user group on the requirements, service contract, consultancy engagement, 2nd/3rd party alternative supplier selections• Working with internal stakeholders to establish contracts for spare parts• Responsible for the tender process and preparation of tender documentation• Collaborating with global sourcing lead to perform market and supplier analysis and understand supply regional market conditions and dynamics• Following up LME currencies to maintain dynamic the energy cables&conductors stocks• Following up projects of decreasing distribution losses at the step of electricity meters.

İstanbul, Türkiye

• Assisting manager to develop marketing strategy based upon business goals• Following all processes of procurement of the products• Implementation of the new product ranges, pricing and positioning • By monitoring product performance, deciding product assortment keeping with trends and customer demands• Searching the market to identify and analyze (Preparing monthly reports about category operations to review sales performance and take actions)• Proposing alternative sources of suppliers & contractors• Coordinate and communicate with relevant parties (Working closely with marketing, supply chain and finance departments to implement the trading plan)• Preparing purchase orders and contracts (Handling all supplier relations; revisions of commercial terms, agreements and following product inspection report of suppliers).