Melanie Botha

• Key Roles and Responsibilities: o Supplier Relationship Management: Successfully maintained strong, long-term relationships with key suppliers, ensuring alignment with procurement goals, cost-effectiveness, quality and on time delivery. o Dual Supplier Development: Implemented strategies for dual supply sources to minimize supply risk and guarantee material availability. o Sourcing: Sourcing new potential suppliers o Supplier Performance Monitoring o Contract Negotiations & Compliance: Negotiated supplier contracts at cost-effective terms, including ensuring that agreements adhered to market norms while meeting internal company standards. o SLA & Supply Agreements: Ensured Supplier Agreements (SLAs) are in place with all critical material suppliers. o Non-Conformance Management: Led the escalation process for supplier-related non-conformance in close collaboration with the quality and buying teams, ensuring timely resolution of issues. o Implemented and drive new system to improve procurement processes and inventory management. o Procurement Budget and Cost Management: Ensure cost increases per product remain on budget and improve where possible. Responsible for quarterly Raw and Packaging material costs updates. Maintain supplier Pricing contracts. Manage Purchase Price Variances. o Reduced procurement costs through effective supplier negotiations and sourcing. o Supplier Compliance Management: Manage all supplier BEE certification and compliance updates. Manage and maintain all approved supplier Food Safety certification (with assistance of Quality Department) to ensure all suppliers complied to company regulations. (FSSC, Halaal, Kosher etc) o Manage Imports and High Value Key Products: Manage annual forecast and minimize risk for stock outs. o General Day to Day Procurement Functions

The Todwil Company of SA – Paarl Global supplier and permanent point of sale advertising company. Provide its clients with an end to end solution; shopper marketing insight and metrics, strategy development, design, engineering, manufacturing, fright and installations. Build display units in the retail market and shopfitting, customers; Burger King, Total, PMI, British American Tobacco, Gold Rush Casino, ABI Coca-Coal, Transnet. o Supplier Identification & Evaluation: Identified, evaluated, and negotiated with new suppliers, ensuring the sourcing of materials and services at the best value while meeting quality and delivery standards. o Cost Management & Supplier Performance: Managed supplier performance evaluation, focusing on quality, pricing, and timely delivery to ensure company profitability. o Supplier Contract Negotiation: Ensured that all supplier contracts were negotiated to meet business objectives, leading to cost reductions and improved service delivery. o Supplier Collaboration: Collaborated with cross-functional teams including engineering, development, and production to align supplier sourcing with product requirements and timelines. o General Daily Procurement Functions: Worked close with various departments to ensure deadlines are met with main focus on the buying team. From proto type development up to end product. o Delivered significant savings in procurement costs by renegotiating supplier contracts and optimizing supplier performance.

Retail Safari is a Point of Purchase arena who supports brands to build brand equity, improve trade/consumer visibility, forward share and ultimate sales volumes. o Procurement Management: Managed procurement process and flow to ensuring products met design specifications and quality standards. o Supplier Coordination & Follow-ups: Coordinated with suppliers to ensure that production kits were delivered on time, adhering to strict timelines and budget requirements. o Supplier Compliance: Ensured suppliers adhered to contractual terms, quality standards, and on-time delivery. o General Day to Day Procurement Functions: Processing of orders, following-up on open orders and back orders. Liase with cost accounts to ensure spend remain within the budget.

Electronic contract manufactures and consulting manufacturing company o Supplier Performance Evaluation: Conducted regular performance evaluations of suppliers, assessing quality, delivery time, and flexibility. o Cost & Lead Time Optimization: Sourced electronic components, negotiating cost, and keep record of accurate lead time as per agreed terms. o Supplier Documentation & Compliance: Ensured all approved supplier records are in place, to meet client singed off specification. Maintaining a robust audit trail for all supplier transactions. o Day to day procurement duties and responsibilities: Processing of Purchase Orders, sticky linked to Bill of materials to ensure all components are as per singed off Client product spec. Goods receiving, Quality inspection and distribution of all goods to allocated departments within the company. Manage faulty consignments. Capturing of invoices and prepare monthly supplier payment recon. Preparing Production Files and assist with monthly stock counts.

Electronic contract manufactures and consulting • Day to Day Procurement Responsibilities: Processing of Purchase Orders, strictly linked to Bill of Materials to ensure all components are as per singed off Client product spec. Expediting of open or back orders. Record keeping of all invoices and purchase documentation. • Developed strategies to ensure minimal supply chain disruption and reduce procurement risks. • Ensured proper documentation and audit trails were maintained for all supplier agreements, purchases, and transactions