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Tony Harrison

Buxton,New South Wales

Summary

Dynamic Procurement Manager with a proven track record at Omya Australasia, driving cost savings of between $1.5M and $3m per annum, through strategic sourcing and effective negotiation. Skilled in SAP and performance management, I excel in fostering team collaboration and achieving compliance, ensuring procurement excellence and operational efficiency.

Overview

34
34
years of professional experience

Work History

Procurement Manager

Omya Australasia
04.2016 - Current
  • Development and Implementation of Procurement Policy and Procedures in line with Global and Regional Policies
  • Training and Education of all staff in Procurement Policies and procedures.
  • Development of Procurement Strategy for all spend categories, in alignment with Regional and Global strategies.
  • Development of Performance Metrics along with reporting to demonstrate improvements to Procurement performance.
  • Develop Systems, Processes and Procedures to ensure Compliance to Procurement Policy.
  • Strategic Sourcing of all relevant Categories, as well as Operational Projects Fleet Management ANZ
  • Achievements: Systems, Policies, Procedures, Processes and Training
  • Creation of Procurement Policy in line with Regional and Global policies, including;- Tendering Policy Process
  • Creation of Request For Quote (RFQ) Request For Tender (RFT) Document Templates.
  • Vendor Selection Policy, Processes and procedures.
  • Vendor Review Policy, Processes and Procedures.
  • Development, Document and Implement Non-Inventory Purchasing in ERP System (BPCS), previously off-system.
  • Training of all relevant staff in Non-Inventory Purchasing system, Policies and Procedures
  • Training of all staff in Procurement Handbook and relevant supporting Corporate Policies
  • Training of all staff in Vendor Selection Policies, Procedures and Documents
  • 2018 ERP system Project (move from BPCS to SAP), Global Template, inclusive of;- Data Cleansing Fit Gap analysis Key User Training Project position of Masted Data Steward - Materials and Procurement (MM) Project timeline March 2018 to 1st April 2019 go live
  • 2019 ERP system Implementation (Jan to June 2019) Policies and Procedures End User Training Go Live (1st April 2019) Training of new staff in Purchasing Hyper Care in go live period. Sorting out of teething issues
  • Tender Processes Conducted Tenders for all major requirements, both Direct & Indirect inclusive of;- Casual Labour Heavy Plant and Equipment Bulk heavy Transport Bulk Ocean Freight Energies inclusive of Electricity, Natural Gas, LPG Gas Property Leases Telecoms Fuel Bulk Bags Paper Bags Chemicals

Purchasing and Supply Chain Coordinator

Northern Co-Operative
09.2015 - 03.2016
  • Company Overview: Meat - Casino
  • Conduct Spend Profile analysis and Opportunity assessment
  • Data Cleansing
  • Project to review packaging requirements;- Streamline and remove duplication, 1100 SKU's, in 3 warehouses
  • Reduce stock from $2.3M to $900k
  • General system clean-up
  • Formulate reorder points for all packaging materials, enabling automated generation of purchasing requirements for all packaging products.
  • Meat - Casino

Supply Chain Manager

Doors Plus
10.2012 - 03.2015
  • Purchasing, Inventory Control, Production Control, Inbound logistics from suppliers, and system maintenance relating to stock control.
  • Strategic Sourcing of all direct spend requirements and indirect spend relating to logistics requirements.
  • Two direct reports: 1 Purchasing Officer and 1 Production Controller.
  • Control of stock in main warehouse, manufacturing location and 21 branches.
  • Production Control of all Manufacturing activities.
  • Control of stock-takes for all locations.
  • Complete review of all activities under my sphere of control.
  • Achievements: Cost Savings of $2.5m vs target of $2.1m against spend of $11.5m.
  • Work with Managing Director to outsource product manufactured locally, to sister company in China.
  • Renegotiate international freight rates, in combination with implementing cross docking, to enable product to be shipped directly from sister company to branches, resulting in forecast local freight savings of $380K per annum.
  • Renegotiate forklift contract to replace company owned forklifts with Electric Walk Forklifts to negate WHS issues, as well as negate $3,000 maintenance costs per forklift per annum. Resulted in saving $15,000 per annum in Forklift rental costs as well as $15000 per annum in maintenance costs.
  • Review of Production control for Aluminium Screen Doors, resulting in restructure of production control processes for this product line, which lead to accurate costing of product, as well as negating write off of -$75K each stock-take (3 stocktakes per annum, $215K per annum).
  • Implementation of Position Descriptions to cover relevant positions under my control.
  • Work Instructions to cover all Purchasing, Inventory and Production Control functions.
  • Implementation of 'Supply Chain 101' processes, design & conceptualise new process to handle inventory control, inbound shipments and costing of product being shipped directly from sister company to branches.
  • Implementation of Cyclical Stocktakes for specific areas.
  • Implementation of new product structures as and when new manufactured product lines were to be released.
  • Transfer of main warehouse data into a new database. Assist IT department to troubleshoot issues caused by change of interaction between multiple databases, including multi-tiered databases.

Purchasing Manager

Dux Manufacturing
12.2010 - 09.2012
  • Responsible for strategic sourcing and cost saving initiatives for all materials required to manufacture product for sales.
  • Control of 2 purchasing staff and 10 warehouse and spare parts staff.
  • Implementation of contracts to cover any direct spend greater than $500K per supplier.
  • Implementation of projects and programmes to cover: Position descriptions for purchasing staff - (2 staff). Work instructions to cover all required purchasing functions. Efficiency drive to reduce stock while increasing DIFOT& stock turns.
  • Achievements: Cost savings of $1.5M vs target of $1.3M.
  • Execution of 5 supply agreements with key suppliers, with 4 more in process.
  • Implementation of position descriptions to cover 2 purchasing staff.
  • Implementation of work instructions to cover all purchasing functions, in line with audit requirements and company guidelines.
  • Stock reduction from $5.8M to $4.7M, increasing stock turns from 3.5 to 4.6.

Strategic Sourcing Manager

Chubb
09.2009 - 11.2010
  • Company Overview: Chubb Security Holdings
  • Strategic sourcing of all direct materials for Chubb Fire & Security, as well as sourcing for any other major indirect commodities.
  • Chubb Security Holdings
  • Achievements: Numerous projects with a combined spend of $6.94M, projected annualised saving (for 2010) of $1.15M or 16.64%.
  • Cost Reduction of $2.230M vs target of $2.2M for 2009.
  • 10 projects with combined spend of $11.5M, projected savings of $920K or 8%.

National Supply Chain Manager

Chubb
07.2006 - 08.2009
  • Company Overview: Chubb Security Australia
  • Periodic review and negotiation of contracts for the supply of both product and services.
  • National responsibility for the Chubb Group for freight, international, interstate and local (from Oct 2005).
  • Responsibilities of Distribution Manager, as below.
  • Chubb Security Australia
  • Achievements: Cost reduction of $2.662M vs target of $2.656M on addressable spend of $45M, or 5.9%.
  • Reduction of SKU from 12,300 to 5,100, a reduction of 7200 or 58.5%. Completed Nov 2007.
  • Cost Reduction of $2.474M vs target of $2.0M on Direct and Indirect spend of $53M or 4.7% 2008.
  • Further reduction of active suppliers, including subcontractors, from 2210 to 1500. 2008.
  • Cost reduction of local freight of approx $105K, or 39% on spend of $270K. Completed End Sept 2007.
  • Cost reduction on interstate airfreight of $126K or 9% on spend of $1.4m. Completed end Oct 2007.
  • Cost reduction on inbound sea-freight of $150K, or 13.3% on spend of $1.125M. Completed end Oct 2007.

Distribution Manager

Chubb
05.2002 - 07.2006
  • Company Overview: Chubb Security Australia
  • Control of purchasing functions nation-wide (15 warehouses, 260 service vans, $105m annual spend originally).
  • National stock holding.
  • Chubb Security Australia
  • Team Achievements: Rationalise suppliers- reduction from 750 mainline suppliers to 75 (2002 to 2004).
  • $105m annual spend reduced to $81m, broken down to $33M Direct, $20M Indirect and $28M Subcontract, achieved cost reduction of $24M, or 23% (2002 to 2004).
  • Change company culture from position of total fragmentation to one of centralised control with decentralised activity. Main activity completed 2002 & 3, ongoing control required.
  • Roll-out of consistent processes in line with changed Supply Chain structure in both Installations and Service warehousing functions (2002 to 2004). These processes were later (2009) adopted Corporation wide.
  • Individual Achievements: Achieve stock reduction from $15m to $4.7m (2002 to 2005).
  • Achieve compliance in utilisation of preferred suppliers, increase from 36% to 91%, with goal being 80% (2002 to present).
  • Trial and implementation of automated ordering system (2003).
  • Restructure Service Van locations to facilitate $5.2M or 11% increase in revenue (2004 & 2005).
  • Cost reduction for inbound International Air Parcel freight of $70K, or 41.2% on spend of $170K (2006).
  • Cost reduction on International inbound airfreight of $310K, or 28.6% on spend of $1.084M (2006).

Purchasing Manager

Hills Electronics
07.1999 - 05.2002
  • Company Overview: including Hills Antenna and Direct Alarm Supplies.
  • Complete purchasing function for electronics components and finished goods with a budgetary control of $50m p.a.
  • Complete responsibility for materials function, from planning of stock levels, through receipt to main warehouse, to distribution to 15 branches, split between two divisions.
  • Including Hills Antenna and Direct Alarm Supplies.

Materials Manager

Wallace and Tiernan Pty Ltd
06.1996 - 07.1999
  • Company Overview: an importer and manufacturer of chemical metering pumps, as well as filtration systems required to treat water for domestic consumption.
  • Responsible to Managing Director for control of materials function from planning and purchase of goods, through receipt and manufacture of finished product, to dispatch of goods to sales.
  • An importer and manufacturer of chemical metering pumps, as well as filtration systems required to treat water for domestic consumption.

Materials Control Supervisor

Telectronics Pacing Systems
09.1991 - 06.1996
  • Company Overview: a manufacturer of medically implantable pacemakers and defibrillators utilised to enhance the cardiac care of patents.
  • A manufacturer of medically implantable pacemakers and defibrillators utilised to enhance the cardiac care of patents.

Education

Small Business Management Course -

OTEN- correspondence
01.1995

Purchasing and Supply Certificate -

TAFE
01.1991

Various Courses -

Royal Australian Army
01.1989

School Certificate -

Pennant Hills High School
Pennant Hills
01.1979

Skills

  • Experienced in use of many different computer systems inclusive of SAP, Pronto XI, BPICS, Arrow, Tencia Experienced in the use of main Microsoft products
  • Extensive use of Crystal Reports
  • Liaison with senior staff to facilitate achievement of company objectives
  • Staff supervision
  • Performance reviews for staff under supervision
  • Written reports in line with supply chain management
  • Negotiation, locally and overseas, through verbal and written communication

Timeline

Procurement Manager

Omya Australasia
04.2016 - Current

Purchasing and Supply Chain Coordinator

Northern Co-Operative
09.2015 - 03.2016

Supply Chain Manager

Doors Plus
10.2012 - 03.2015

Purchasing Manager

Dux Manufacturing
12.2010 - 09.2012

Strategic Sourcing Manager

Chubb
09.2009 - 11.2010

National Supply Chain Manager

Chubb
07.2006 - 08.2009

Distribution Manager

Chubb
05.2002 - 07.2006

Purchasing Manager

Hills Electronics
07.1999 - 05.2002

Materials Manager

Wallace and Tiernan Pty Ltd
06.1996 - 07.1999

Materials Control Supervisor

Telectronics Pacing Systems
09.1991 - 06.1996

Small Business Management Course -

OTEN- correspondence

Purchasing and Supply Certificate -

TAFE

Various Courses -

Royal Australian Army

School Certificate -

Pennant Hills High School

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