Ryan Jacobs Email & Phone Number

Parow, Western Cape, South Africa

• Administratively supporting all aspects of the buying process.• Ensuring timeous placement of orders onto the purchasing system with both international and local suppliers.• Maintaining a control system for the Sample Room and Sample sales.• Compiling, balancing and updating of spreadsheets, presentations and reports.• Maintaining quality assurance control is completed and samples and audited.• Building constructive and mutually beneficial relationships with suppliers.• All preparations prior to presentations on PowerPoint for the Buyer• General office administration and ad hoc duties as required by the department

Lansdowne

• Planning promotion & Markdowns Generating • Analyzing weekly sales reports• Managing store stock creating core reports • Allocating stock to stores• Determining store stock requirements & control stock levels to achieve sales target

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

• Assisting the Sourcing Co-ordinators in compiling the “new brief packs”• Co-ordination of outward & inward bound parcels• Recording the movements of all garments, swatches, artwork, and colour submissions on the GIS system• Conveying garments to & from Departments for fit sessions• Ensuring the availability of garments for reviews/showings etc• Constant liaison with vendors/buyers on day to day issues• General admin

Parow, Western Cape, South Africa

• Assisting the Buyer with administrative functions regarding the process of buying• The management of samples received from suppliers, displaying the samples on rails and hangers, distributing samples and lab dips to the buyer and garment technologist • Maintaining the sample room in regards ensuring all current season samples are present and all stock marked with style numbers• Process of requesting and processing of Proforma invoices, making certain units, prices, shipment dates and ports correspond to that on the system.• The Placement, amending and cancellation of orders making sure the correct product and quantity is placed on the PLM system. Confirming these orders with the suppliers and maintaining duty codes and write requisitions from the inflow plan • Ensuring products are tested and up to standard regarding quality. Sending all samples to the Garment technologist for measuring and confirming results with the supplier• Send off all approved samples to the Distribution Centre • Updating of datasheets and analyzing sales and completing sales performance sheets e.g. style card

Kuilsriver

• Assisting the Buyer with administrative functions regarding the process of buying• The management of samples received from suppliers• The Placement, amending and cancellation of orders making sure the correct product and quantity is placed, • Ensuring products are tested and up to standard in regards to quality• Updating of datasheets and analyzing sales and completing sales performance sheets • Communication with foreign and local suppliers • Following up on agreed amendments• Packaging: ensuring the product has the correct information on the tickets issued, and packed correctly • Monitor deliver of products • The preparation of product presentations and reviews and attending relevant meetings with suppliers and the business• Pre costing of various products• Perform comparative shopping • Assist with range planning

Cape Town

• The role of policy administrator provides immediate response to administrative requirements in accordance with SLA parameters• The processing Business Quotes received from branches and clients and capturing them onto the AWD and Omunet computer system• Updating of existing Client information as well as suspending cases for future transactions, if there’s any outstanding information requested. The contacting clients and brokers for the said outstanding information while ensuring that the transaction is completed in the correct SLA lead times• To provide data capturing that's accurate and processing and assuring that urgent cases gets completed• Performing quality checks on own work and adhering to service and quality standards