- strategic Purchasing for spend of 50 MEUR Transportation

- negotiations, budget planning, supplier relationship management

- continuous improvement of Logistics processes

Responsibilities:

• managing the category of hoisting equipment and conveyor equipment for whole Metinvest holding (12 metal steel and mining plants)
• leading team of 30 procurement specialists on plants
• building and managing relations with strategic suppliers
• providing in-time and efficient coverage of need within required quality
• defining opportunities in categories and conducting projects to get value from improvements
• creating and implementing of procurement strategy for mentioned categories
• monitoring and solving critical situations
• claim management

Achievements:

• on-time need coverage and delivery KPI's successfully met
• savings over $1M delivered

Scope:

• 3 warehouses, 8 platforms (3 dry platforms, 5 chilled platforms, break bulk + stock)
• local deliveries (deliveries from warehouses to 25 stores across Ukraine)
• import transportation (import from 400+ origins at 25+ countries by all types of transport)
• customs clearance (food, non-food, veterinary products)
• excise stamps management (for own alcohol import)
• team of 27 people

Responsibilities:

• leading the team and building relationships with other departments/internal clients
• improving service level and cost efficiency through footprint and processes optimization
• ensure that capacities match expected volumes, prepare risk mitigation plans
• KPI's abidance, making gaps route cause analysis and improvement plans
• monitoring and solving critical situations
• budget preparation and upholding logistic cost within budget level
• claim management
• contract management

Achievements:

implementation of KPI's tracking and sufficient improvement of service level:

• On-Time Delivery (90%->98%)
  
• Picking accuracy (99%->99,8%)
• Pallet utilization (0,9 m3->1,2 m3)
• Shelf ready pallets (85%->95%)

numerous process improvements implemented:

• introduced forecasting of volumes for warehouses and transportation
• started LEAN approach to warehouse operations (involving ordering, suppliers' time windows, picking principle)
• implemented hour-based delivery time-windows
• goods exit check outsourcing (percentage of goods checked increased 9%->25%)
• outsourcing and simplification in import deliveries and customs clearance (handling 20% increased volumes with the same number of employees)
  

cost efficiency:

• introduced tender principal for main services - $1M+ savings achieved
• developed budget model and achieved expected level of 2,3% of Logistic cost
  

• defining strategic path for Procurement (develop and implement Procurement strategy);
• leading team of 7 people;
• establish and maintain regular, transparent and comprehensive communication flow with stakeholders (management and execution level);
• improving business processes (P2P, tendering, contracts);
• general supervision of all Procurement projects (leading/participating in the main ones);
• control of policies abidance;
• delivering the numbers (savings, WAT, KPI's);

Achievements:

• turnaround in situation when Procurement was bottleneck for many critical projects (introduced strategy, standard project management path, clear team structure, communication principles)

• substantially improvedimage of Procurement and stakeholders satisfaction;
• Procurement strategy developed and started implementing;
• numerous process enhancements implemented and initiated (improve control on policies, decrease paperwork, decrease number of vendors etc.);
• significant KPI's improvement (PO coverage 75%->98%, Late PO 35%->8%);

• review of current Procurement strategies and approaches;
• identifying opportunities for cost and process improvement;
• looking for innovations to be implemented both in Procurement and Sales&Marketing processes;
• developing project plans and leading/supervising projects for changes implementation;

Achievements:

• initiated and conducted reassessment projects in Digital, Media, BTL (increased cost efficiency, level of service, transparency);
• led and successfully delivered in time core project for the company (new business deployment);
• developing business processes from both Procurement and Sales&Marketing sides - being a business partner from Procurement to internal clients;

• creating and implementing Procurement strategy for Supply Chain for EMEA region;
• analyzing the expenses and identifying opportunities for cost and operational optimization;
• leading key projects in cost and process optimization;
• supporting local teams in running Supply Chain projects, tenders;
• supplier relationship management with strategic suppliers on the Regional and Global level;
• bringing expertize to Supply Chain and Procurement local teams, sharing best practices;
• sharing and taking over best practices among regions, from Global team;

Achievements:

• 10 successful projects conducted (over $20M savings achieved)
• one regional vision and Procurement strategy for Supply Chain in EMEA region was created and implemented;
• communication and cooperation with internal clients, suppliers relationship management was put into a qualitatively new level;
• significant improvement of service level and KPI's;

• procurement coverage of all areas of business:
• Marketing (Media, POSM, BTL etc.);
• Supply Chain (Transportation, Warehouse, Brokerage etc.);
• Administrative (Office rent, Cars purchasing etc.);
• others;
• introducing Procurement function into company structure, building Procurement processes from scratch, P2P process creation;
• creating and implementing Procurement procedure;
• building trust to the Procurement and proving value of Procurement for business;

Achievements on position during 1.5 years:

• over $3M savings achieved (30% average in each project);
• Procurement function created from a scratch and implemented in the organization;
• 0%->80% of spend covered by Procurement;

• significant improvement of service level in all areas due to competition introduced;

- creating and implementing Procurement strategy for Transport&Logistics category;

- conducting tenders for outbound transportation (domestic and international) and inbound transportation (domestic and international);

- supplier relationship management with transport companies; tracking KPI's;

- developing and implementing cost reduction and process improvement initiatives;

- planning annual budget for Transport&Logistics category;

- monthly cost evaluation for Transport&Logistics category, risks and savings vs. BU, making FY forecast;

- monitoring of the transportation market;

- purchasing of IT equipment, office equipment, telecom equipment;

- purchasing of IT services: mobile, fixed telephony, internet, maintenance, MPLS, CAS rollout;

- annual supply of branded clothes and bags for sales reps;

- annual tender and rolling support for branding for points of sales;

- purchasing of POS materials for promos;

- conducting tenders for domestic and international transportations for Russia;