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Purchasing Manager

Work Experience

1995 – ’02
Company designing and manufacturing industrial electronics and equipment (CEM), Turnover 60M Eur, employees 320.
Purchasing Manager.
-Reporting directly to the Managing Director
-Budgetery responsibility of 30M Euro
-Supplier sourcing and procurement
-Stock reduction and stock accuracy
-Assessed and reviewed procurement procedures
-Bench marking and supplier assessment
-Project manager for e-procurement and B2B straegy and implementation of a Web-site for benchmarking..
-Rebuilt customer confidence and service levels by eliminating stock shortages and delays.
-Project manager for the procedures manual.
-Streamlining and optimising internal and external procedures to facilitate customer satisfaction.
1992 – ’94
Privatly owned company designing, manufacturing and marketing Hybride-circuits and high precision resistors (OEM and CEM). Turnover 30M Eur, employees 80.
Purchasing manger.
-Formation of the purchase department, not existing.
-All procedures based on the ISO 9000 standard and establisment of supplier performance indicators.
-Stock reduction and accuracy.
-International sourcing of all materials.
-Expierience of logistic operations across Europe, North America and Far East.
-Negotiation of new terms with all suppliers to reduce costs.
-Implementation of new MRP software.
1990 – ’92
International concern (OEM) disigning, manufacturing and marketing of elevators and escalators. Turnover 300M Eur, employees 400.
Project Buyer.
-Reducing costs by benchmarking, improving quality and sourcing of alternative components.
-Implementation of the SAP software (MRP).
-Experienced in procuring and managing suppliers.
1983 – ’90
Company designing, manifacturing and marketing UPS equipment (OEM). Turnover 80M Eur, employees 160.
Purchasing manager ‘89-‘90
-Coaching a team of 3 purchasers, establishing a platform for later successes.
Planner ‘87-’89.
-Planning all products and expertice in Kanban and JIT principles.
-Proactive forward planning.
Stock manager ‘85-’87.
-Streamlining procedures on shortages of material in the production.
Responible for the quality control on incoming goods ‘83-’85.
-Gaining comprehensive knowledge of skills and quality assurance.
1982 Arrival in Switzerland (Ticino)

Education

Corso ellettronica applicata (CCP Bellinzona, Switzerland)
Seminar für Materialwirtschafter und Einkäufer (SVME Brunnen, Switzerland)
Souverän im umgang mit schwierigen Menschen (ETC Zürich, Switzerland)
Rapporti vincenti con i fornitori (Camera di commercio Lugano, Switzerland)
Different seminairs on material/ procurement management. (SVME, Switzerland)
Università di Amsterdam-Leraren opleiding, Dutch and Geografy, (Amsterdam, Netherlands).
HAVO 5 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Skills

Driving down costs through negotiation, proactive supply management, strategic purchasing with best pratice concept.
Leadership and support skills to build highly motivated teams.
In-depth knowledge and understanding of MRP and ERP systems.
Identifying and introducing work practices and technology to maximise efficiency and performance.
Pratical working knowledge of :
SAP, MS office, MS project, MS powerpoint and Lotus Notes.

Languages

Dutch, German, English and Italian

Other

Membre of the “Swiss Procurement Forum”
Past-President and founder of the “Associazione Svizzera per l’Approvvigionamento e l’Acquisto” (ASAA/SVME) Ticino, Switzerland.

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