Supply Chain Logistics Manager

PERSONAL DETAILS

NAME : Jacob Gutsire

POSTAL ADDRESS : P O Box 3208

GABORONE

DATE OF BIRTH : 01

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October 1972

TELEPHONES : Cell – 71646934

DRIVER’S LICENCE : Light Vehicle

LANGUAGE : English, Setswana & Afrikaans

GENERAL COMMITMENTS – An opportunity to achieve a senior management position.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

• Cambridge School Certificate (COSC)

• Certificate of Attendance in Purchasing Principles and Techniques – GIPS

• IDM Certificate in Introduction to Personal Computers.

• Certificate in Purchasing & Supply Management – IDM Institute of Development Management.

• Diploma in Materials Management – South African Institute of Materials Handling.

• Diploma in Supply Chain Management – Centre for logistics Excellence – South Africa.

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• Association of Accounting Technicians – (Botswana Institute of Accountants)

(BIA)

Certificate of attendance in Service Level Agreement (SLA) Marcus Evans (RSA)

• Introduction to Drill Rig Equipment and Fluids Training Certificate

- Selibe Phikwe Secondary School

- Motheo Copper Mine

EMPLOYMENT RECORD

COMPANY: HEINSITE CONSTRUCTION

PERIOD: October 2022 – Current (2 Year contract)

POSITION: Procurement & Logistics Manager

Key Responsibilities & Duties

- Planning, directing, or coordinating the activities relating to purchasing of materials, products & services.

- Develop and employ robust sourcing strategies.

- Discover profitable suppliers and initiate business and organization partnership to optimize the procurement process.

- Negotiate with external vendors to secure advantageous terms and conditions.

- Approve the ordering of necessary goods and services following best practices.

- Finalize purchase details of orders and deliveries.

- Examine and test existing contracts for efficiencies.

- Track and report key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve efficiencies.

- Collaborate with key persons to ensure clarity of specifications and expectations of the company.

- Foresee alterations in the comparative negotiating ability of suppliers and clients.

- Anticipate unfavorable events through analysis of data and prepare control strategies.

- Perform risk management for supply contracts and agreements.

- Control, spend and build a culture of long-term saving on procurement costs.

- Constant generation of ideas to improve inventory turns on purchased materials, with focus on standardized components.

- Manage the vendor evaluation process. With an effective vendor evaluation schedule and disciplined follow up vendor status criteria.

- Work in safe manner by adherence to all company Health and safety policies and procedures.

COMPANY: SANDFIRE MOTHEO COPPER MINE

PERIOD: October 2020 – October 2022 (2-year Contract) POSITION: Procurement Specialist

Key Responsibilities & Duties

- Reporting directly to Chief Financial Officer

- Purchase order processing for all Sites and locations

- Ensuring that all Stores teams are processing their daily Inventory transactions correctly on business central system.

- Ensure all stock control and housekeeping procedures are in place and followed and implement any procedural changes when required.

- Expediting and back-order report control and supplier liaison to follow up and ensure all lead times advised on Purchase orders are accurate and orders are delivered on time.

- Hosting weekly back-order report update calls with all sites and ensuring all suppliers ETAs and information is updated accurately.

- Processing stock re-order levels of critical spares and general consumables for Site offices

- Complete control of the goods receiving bay and stock transfer bays on site

- Overseeing item journals transactions processed on Business Central by the site stores.

Coordinating and controlling all stock transfers from Gantsi to remote sites and processing the transfer to Business Central system

- Assisting the Procurement Officer to draft and update all Site requisitions received and ensure all requests are completed in a timely manner.

- Negotiates contracts with suppliers to obtain best price and service.

- Identify cost reduction opportunities to achieve financial goals.

- Provide periodic reporting for management on purchasing, controls, and processes.

- Work in a safe manner by adherence to all Company Health and Safety policies and procedures

COMPANY: BIDFOOD BOTSWANA

PERIOD: February 2018 – September 2020

POSITION: National Procurement & Operations Executive Key Responsibilities & Duties

- Execute the strategy of Bidfood at the Branch

- Ensuring Sales growth and sustainability of the business

- Maintain and continually improve relations with external stakeholders eg. Supplier and customers

- Embrace and implement the multi-temp model in business operations.

- Monitor and ensure compliance with corporate governance and other applicable trading laws.

- Advocate operational excellence in all areas of business.

- Create conducive environment for people development and employee satisfaction.

- Assume overall accountability for the transaction of the branch.

- Continually improve branch’s performance on STARS ranking

- Commit to achieving the advertising revaluation income budgets.

- Buy within the guidelines agreed by the National Procurement team.

- Coordinate imports from South Africa

- Always get a better deal from suppliers

- Constantly be on the lookout for new and innovative products that can add value to our business.

- Create broadsheet for National Promotions

- Work together with suppliers in the arrangement of Food Open Days

- Thorough understanding of Food Safety requirements within BFS

- Be available for and control stock takes.

COMPANY:

PERIOD:

POSITION:

(EDCON GROUP) - Vital Distribution Solutions

June 2013 - December 2018

Operations Manager

Key Responsibilities & Duties

- Under guidance of the General Manager – ensures that exceptional service and supports delivered to all clients.

- To support Depot management by planning, organizing, and motivating.

- Establishing and maintaining quality service in the warehouse and transport functions.

- Leading by maintaining a high standard of ethics, compliance with company policies and operational requirement.

- Contributing to the development strategy of the business together with the executive team.

- Managing internal systems and business processes effectively.

- Managing Operations within budget.

- Maximizing Depot profits through hands on controls and sign off all expenses.

- Meet and exceed all operational service levels, through the achievement of contractual KPIs.

- Drive and develop team culture – encouraging and rewarding constructive internal competitiveness to the benefit of the client and individual employees.

- Manage HR through management team, ensure appropriate levels of human resources to meet business needs, performance issues, training and development, employee productivity, recruitment, and retention of staff.

- Effective management of resources to achieve operational and business objectives and KPIs.

- Provide operational support to the General Manager, identify, and implement process improvements.

- Compliance with statutory and company policies and procedures

- Improve service performance levels through effective implementation of business development initiatives.

- Ensure appropriate staffing levels, high level of competence in staff and managing industrial relations by ensuring that appropriate disciplinary actions are taken.

COMPANY: FLOTEK PIPES AND IRRIGATION

PERIOD: March 2009 – March 2012 (3-year contract)

POSITION: Logistics Manager

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

. Production planning and forecasting

. Liaise with sales operations in Botswana, South Africa, and Angola

. Prepare and manage transport budget.

. Supervise activities of workers engaged in loading and offloading materials.

. Training of drivers and other Distribution staff

. Plan, develop and implement driver safety and security programs.

. Management of all distribution activities

. Planning and scheduling of loads

. Management of staff including recruitment of new staff and HR issues

. Management of:

Yard - housekeeping

Stock – minimum and maximum

Timely delivery of pipes and tanks

Vehicle and forklift maintenance

Investigating and negotiating outside transport

Non – conforming products

. Weekly reporting to senior management.

COMPANY : NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED (NBL)

PERIOD : November 2006 - March 2009

POSITION : Assistant Warehouse Manager

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

• Responsible for daily stock count monitoring and control.

• CHEP Pallets Management

• Stock Variance Investigation

• Processing of Production costs

• Coordination of credit notes and stock write-off functions

• Receipt and inspection of incoming goods and preparation of the orders.

• Security & Integrity of stock

• Periodic Stocktaking and correct reporting

• Correct binning of all inventory

• Maintain correct min/max stock levels and identify slow moving items.

• Loading and Off-loading trucks

• Maintaining equipment register

• Facilitating inspection of all incoming goods.

• Ensure all incoming goods conform to order specification

• Proper packaging of all outgoing goods.

• Dealing with customers efficiently and the ability to build a trusting relationship with clients.

• Supervising juniors including monitoring performance and discipline. COMPANY : DEBSWANA JWANENG MINE

PERIOD : June 2005 - October 2006

POSITION : Materials Buyer

Key Responsibilities & Duties

• To be responsible for the management of all Company purchases of consumables, spares, capital equipment and service contracts. The key areas are as follows:

• Planning – assists the Materials Manager in developing long, medium- and short- term purchasing objectives.

• Controlling – ensures that suppliers maintain an acceptable level of service by monitoring their performance in respect of price, quality and lead times, summary of overdue orders, price variance, returns etc.

• Operating – evaluates quotes/tenders and negotiates prices for all major purchases and determines best sources of supply. Reviews all contract amendments and price increase and informs Management of exceptional changes.

• Subordinates effectiveness – sets and manages key performance areas. Identifies subordinates training and development needs. Appraises subordinates and sets key performance areas.

• Safety, Health & Environment – ensures compliance with the Mine policies and Procedures relating to inter-alia Safety, Health and Environment. Compliance to set policies and procedures.

COMPANY : DHL INTERNATIONAL

PERIOD : June 2004 – June 2005

POSITION : Operations Manager

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

• Hold weekly meetings with both Operations and Gateway staff to review performance and tackle issues of concern for operational efficiency.

• Run all relevant SAM reports Daily and provide quality feedback to Area office timeously.

• Fully utilize an operations performance board based on set criteria to motivate all couriers.

• Review and sign off all manifesting end of day report and file them accordingly.

• Ensure that FSDC is fully complied within Botswana.

• Draw up a Service Level Agreement (SLA) with all agents for effective management of DHL Service standards.

• Activate and actively use SID on all security incidents and send a security report to Director in Malawi every month.

• Familiarize with all Transport Harmonization Programme (THP) procedures.

• Create a courier coach ride schedule that will entail you and supervisors going out on the route with the couriers and close gaps such as driving habits, clients’ complaints and problems faced by couriers and provide a feedback report to HRE.

• Ensure that all operations vehicles are checked daily, washed daily and that weekly maintenance schedules are adhered to HRE.

• Provide a monthly feedback report on the 2004 Customs Strategy.

• Ensure that all network suppliers ( flyer bags, jumbo boxes, tapes etc) have sufficient stock for our clients at all times.

• Regular meetings with DCA, Air Botswana and Customs as part and parcel of relationship building.

• Achieving the set weekly and monthly SQI targets. COMPANY : RUSTIC TOUCH PROMOTIONS

PERIOD : Oct 2002 – Jan 2004

POSITION : Operations/ Production Manager

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

• Coordinating orders with production. Distribute paperwork to various departments. Received and process orders from sales departments, ensuring Smooth flow of raw materials

Check stationery requirement with head of each department, order and requirement with head of each department, order and supply stationary. All work to be analyzed according to suppliers, invoice, standard cost, transport sales tax, artwork, printing/embroidery, and any other relevant cost incurred producing the order. Ensure deliveries to clients meet required deadline dates and relevant paperwork invoice, packing slips etc. Control stock and producing monthly and annually, year-end figures to accounts, weekly sales figures. Identify and source new and existing product lines. Liase with existing suppliers, internationally. Maintain and update price lists. Credit control and monthly expenditure.

COMPANY : MURRAY & ROBERTS BOTSWANA

PERIOD : Feb 2000 – Jan 2002

POSITION : Site Administrator (2 Year Contract)

Key Responsibilities & Duties

• Managing the purchasing & administration functions of the site office. Procuring goods & services, material etc in accordance with the construction’s requirements. Costing goods, supervising stores clerks, handling of site petty cash, customer queries, capturing invoices etc.

COMPANY : AIR BOTSWANA

PERIOD : Jan 1996 – Jan 2000

POSITION : Purchasing & Supplies Officer (A/C Spares) Key Responsibilities & Duties

• To place orders for stores, spares, equipment etc. for the ATR 42 Aircraft in such a manner as to optimize price, delivery, and specifications in accordance with the requirements of the airline.

COMPANY : AIR BOTSWANA

PERIOD : Aug 1994 – Jan 1996

POSITION : Stores Receiving Officer

• Receiving and issuing spares in accordance with procedures and maintain stores in orderly and clean manner.

• Prepare issue and receipts documents and ensures they are maintained in accordance with airline requirements.

REFEREES

Ernest Kgope Peter Masie

Purchasing Manager Accountant

Air Botswana Murray and Roberts Civils

Tel: 3952812 Tel: 71600015

Dennis Ludick Molefe Modimakwane

Warehouse Manager DHL International

National Brands Limited DHL International

National Operations Manager

Tel: 723*****-******* / 72104708

Maria Segokotlo Puni Galejewe

Chief Buyer Human Resources Manager

Jwaneng Mine Flotek Pipe & Irrigation

5884198/2 71836033

71607090

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