Surath Gunawardhana
Woonona,Australia
Summary
To be a dynamic Corporate Leader enhances with creative innovations and wishes to contribute to the growth of the organization with my skills & competencies
Hard working, self-motivated and responsible professional with outgoing personality and excellent communication skills, who enjoys meeting challenges and seeing them through while remaining confident and well working capacities under pressure. Problem solver, effective team player with the ability to adapt to the new situations.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
SUPPLY CHAIN & INVENTORY ANALYST
BRAEMAC PTY LTD
06.2020 - 04.2021
- Prepare monthly profitability reports and advised on corrective action to management
- Analyse the Product / Project Costs and discuss with Management recommendations for improving the margins and detail the factors that reduced profitability
- This includes single inventory purchases and Turnkey manufacturing projects
- Financial Analysis of the cable assembly manufacturing business to ensure profitability is maintained
- Using our integrated system review the excess stock on a monthly basis for all entities in Braemac Group and discuss with key staff on how to reduce excess value
- Responsible for undertaking a detailed review and reporting on aged stock (dead stock, potential dead and slow moving stock)
- The aim of this is to make staff aware of the inventory holding cost and negotiating with customer to purchase
- Review inventory subsidiary ledger and action the month end stock mark down reports for management
- Review the charges on the Freight and Vendor invoices / credit notes and reconciling against vendor statements for payment preparation
- Review on a monthly cycle debtors ledger to identify loan stock issued to the customers
- Resolve Vendor Inventory issues related to outstanding purchase credit notes
- Discussions with External Auditors for any issues that are raised involving Inventory and Cost Management
- Complete start to end management for RMA's and discuss with Customer Service, RSM's, FSE's and PM on the required action plan and issuing credits to the customers as applicable
- The aim is to ensure the company costs are reduced to ensure the required systems are in place to streamline the process and provide the necessary training to staff
- Managing cycle counts for Braemac and cable assembly and reporting on variances
- This includes the overseas entities of UK, Sing, HK, Braemac CA, EMI and other Turnkey locations
- Responsible for Year End Audited stock counts for all the Braemac locations and CEM location sites
- Final reports to be prepared and submitted to management for approval
- Discuss with BDO Auditors any stock related enquiries
- Integral member of the implementation Team involving the analysis of stock items that will be migrated from Nav Dynamics to Business Central
- This also involves the balancing of the two stock ledgers to ensure the closing inventory in Nav will equal the opening value both dollar and quantity in Business Central
- Identify Inventory that must be rectified before uploading into Business Central
- Train staff on Business Central around the Inventory Management, RMA's and Returned stock
PURCHASING AND PLANNING OFFICER
YASMIN PRODUCTS PTY LTD (VITA5 CPR)
05.2019 - 04.2020
- Company Overview: AUSTRALIA
- Responsible for placing of purchase orders (international and Domestic) for raw materials, packaging (500 + SKUs) and services
- Responsible for communication and negotiations with suppliers (local and overseas), finding new suppliers and conducting price comparisons for purchasing decisions
- Responsible for Inventory (1000 + SKUs) & warehouse management; coordinating warehouse team in stock movements and conducting cycle counts, stock counts, managing warehouse space & receiving stock
- Responsible for arranging freight both inbound & outbound and domestic and international
- Responsible for receiving of raw materials, creating GRNs, cross checking all the COAs are accurate and batch is in accordance with our PO requirements
- Responsible for preparation of the weekly production plan analyzing finished goods stock levels and forecasted sales and conducting production plan meetings with operations manager and production team
- Responsible for analyzing critical material requirement report weekly and making sure everything is in order for the future production plan
- Responsible for defining new KPIs for manufacturing team and dispatch team
- Responsible for running MRP and preparing long term purchasing plan of raw material and packaging
- Responsible for arranging freight both inbound & outbound and domestic and international
- Responsible for coordinating with finance team and entering of invoices in the system, auditing supplier statement of accounts monthly and organize domestic & international payment summary for the Managing Director
- Responsible for developing the sales forecast monthly for the next 123 months and conducting the forecast meeting with the General manager, operations manager and sales team
- Responsible for preparation of product costing, budgeting and providing input in product development and pricing meetings
- Forklift driving -loading and unloading trucks
- AUSTRALIA
PURCHASING AND STORES COORDINATOR
WOLLONGONG COAL LTD
03.2018 - 05.2019
- Company Overview: AUSTRALIA
- Accountable to process purchase orders, GRNs, Service Entry Sheets, inventory issues, max-min reports using SAP ERP systems
- Responsible for generating reports on usage of inventory, inventory forecast, price comparisons, purchase history & etc
- Using MS excel
- Responsible for purchase order management, frequent contact with suppliers for ordering materials and services & conduct price comparisons for different vendors in order take purchasing decisions and price negotiations
- Responsible for inventory management, generating reports on stock highlighting slow moving stocks and fast-moving stocks and conducting cycle counts and stock counts
- Responsible for arranging and scheduling transport for both small deliveries & heavy haulage, pallet configurations & maintain gate pass processes to comply with company procedures
- Effective communication and coordination with site engineers, underground deputies, managers, workers and administration
- Forklift driving - loading and unloading trucks
- Responsible to understand and follow Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and reporting on achievements every quarter
- AUSTRALIA
SUPPLY CHAIN INTERN
WOLLONGONG COAL LTD
01.2018 - 03.2018
- Company Overview: AUSTRALIA
- Use of SAP ERP systems to post Good Receivable Notes, Service Entry Sheets & Material and Service purchase orders
- Contact with suppliers for ordering materials and services
- Responsible for maintain files and documentations of purchase orders, CAPEX orders and stock issues
- Assisting Procurement Manager to do price comparisons and requesting quotes and negotiating prices with new suppliers
- AUSTRALIA
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
SANMIK NATURAL FOOD PTY LTD
08.2016 - 07.2017
- Company Overview: AUSTRALIA
- Using of MYOB ERP system to generate required reports and updating invoice database and other administrative data entry tasks
- Responsible for preparation of reports on cost analysis and assist in budgeting and production forecasting
- Responsible for assisting in different investment appraisals of the company
- Responsible for generating daily, weekly and monthly productions reports highlighting efficiencies and inefficiencies in overseas factories
- Responsible for processing of invoices purchase orders and shipment records
- Responsible for preparation of reports on stock and working capital
- AUSTRALIA
Education
BACHELOR OF COMMERCE - SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
University of Wollongong
01.2018
G.C.E. ADVANCED LEVEL EXAMINATION - Economics, Mathematics, Business Studies, Accounting
Stafford International School
Sri Lanka01.2015
G.C.E. ORDINARY LEVEL EXAMINATION - Mathematics, English, Business and Accounting, Information communication and technology
Rahula College
Sri Lanka01.2012
Skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Problem-solving
- Effective team player
- Ability to adapt to new situations
References
Referees will be provided upon request.
Lifemission
To be a dynamic Corporate Leader enhanced with creative innovations and wishes to contribute to the growth of the organization with my skills & competencies.
Timeline
SUPPLY CHAIN & INVENTORY ANALYST
BRAEMAC PTY LTD
06.2020 - 04.2021
PURCHASING AND PLANNING OFFICER
YASMIN PRODUCTS PTY LTD (VITA5 CPR)
05.2019 - 04.2020
PURCHASING AND STORES COORDINATOR
WOLLONGONG COAL LTD
03.2018 - 05.2019
SUPPLY CHAIN INTERN
WOLLONGONG COAL LTD
01.2018 - 03.2018
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
SANMIK NATURAL FOOD PTY LTD
08.2016 - 07.2017
BACHELOR OF COMMERCE - SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
University of Wollongong
G.C.E. ADVANCED LEVEL EXAMINATION - Economics, Mathematics, Business Studies, Accounting
Stafford International School
G.C.E. ORDINARY LEVEL EXAMINATION - Mathematics, English, Business and Accounting, Information communication and technology
Rahula College
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