Sylvia Lau

• Oversee the purchasing department • Responsible to take ownership of the end-to-end procurement process from sourcing, negotiation, tender, contract, and vendor management activities • Assist day-to-day purchasing enquiry • Responsible for inventory accuracy and maintaining appropriate inventory levels • To source for the right and good quality with the least possible cost and lead time with very good payment terms • To exercise regular cost reductions with our suppliers without compromising on quality and lead time • Regularly have communication with suppliers to ensure quality, cost, delivery, and service always far exceed company expectation • Implement continuous improvement activities • Ensure planned KPI is met • To assist in any ad-hoc task from time to time

Responsibilities: Team Leadership: Provide leadership, guidance, and direction to the operations team, including warehouse staff, drivers, and operational personnel, to ensure smooth and efficient operations. Vendor Management: To identify, evaluate, and negotiate with suppliers to ensure quality products at competitive prices. Maintain strong relationships with vendors to secure favourable terms and resolve any issues. Supply Chain Management: Responsible for the operations of the Centre through collaboration with internal users and external stakeholders for daily operations, business processes, project updates, proposals, and planning. Purchasing Functions: Oversees all procurement, budget reports and operating expenses, in compliance with financial procedures. Oversees the generation of reports for review of facility-related budgets, and vendor contract management. Operations Management: Oversee all aspects of logistics operations, including receiving, inventory management, order fulfillment, and shipping, to meet customer requirements and service levels. Process Improvement: Identify opportunities for process improvement and optimization in logistics operations, implementing best practices and efficiency gains to streamline workflows and reduce costs. Performance Monitoring: Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for logistics operations, such as on-time delivery, order accuracy, and inventory accuracy, and implement corrective actions as needed to meet targets and areas for improvement.

As a Senior Purchasing Executive responsible for assisting with the procurement process, including contract management, price negotiation and preparation of purchase orders. Purchasing Executive will also be responsible for ensuring that our commitments to customers are met. Purchasing Functions: • Responsible for the ongoing purchasing and sourcing activities that could generate more cost-saving for the company. • Perform supplier sourcing, evaluation, assessment and selection, negotiation, performance monitoring, vendor relationship management and continuous improvement for the company. • Maintain and Review Purchasing, Shipping, and Receiving Records. • Follow up the delivery status and liaise closely with warehouse to ensure all purchase items delivered according to the lead time and schedule. • Liaise closely with Account Department for payment issue and communicate with supplier. • Provide feedback to suppliers and follow up on the arising issues regarding quality, shortage, and warranty claim. • To perform others ad-hoc task assigned by superior and management. • Maintaining a good and updated filling system. Logistics Functions • To liaise with government department for export license or any other documents related to government department. • To co-ordinate with shipping liners/freight forwarders for shipment bookings and the arrangement of containers. • Liaise with sales agents and warehouse assistant to ensure sufficient stocks. • Assist in managing all Supply Chain related activities for both import & export delivery arrangement, shipment tracking, and order fulfilment. • Prepare shipping documents and ensure proper documentation is in place according to the company’s ISO SOP. • Prepare Certificate of Origin from Chamber of Commerce and MITI (such as but not limited to Form E and etc.). • As a planner, controller, and coordinator of logistics for import and export.

Industry: Consumer Products / FMCG Specialization: Purchasing/Inventory/Material & Warehouse Management Position Level: Senior Executive • Review and plan purchase requisition based on stock and sales demands. • Release Purchase Order per approval obtain. • Perform goods receipts. • Validate and post supplier invoices into system. • Plan and monitor on supplier delivery schedule. • Arrange import activities for delivery shipment • Follow up on supplier quality issues. • Item Master controller • To negotiate with supplier on existing and new item price and MOQ. • To prepare weekly and monthly inventory report. • To guide and monitor junior purchaser on their daily activities. • To communicate with sales team on inventory status.

Industry: Electrical & Electronics Specialization: Purchasing/Inventory/Material & Warehouse Management Position Level: Junior Executive • To issue Purchase Orders to suppliers based on MRP requirements and ensure accuracy. • Quote new and existing materials. Work with Quote team if applicable. Frequently requote and negotiate to capitalize on cost reduction opportunities. • To ensure demand is matched with supply. • Expedite component shortages based on the material shortages report • Execute MRP output (push out, pull in & cancellation) in accordance to latest built plan • Expedite materials to meet production's schedule with minimal downtime. • To ensure timely deliveries from suppliers and take immediate action to resolve problem parts. • To accomplish cost reduction and lead time reduction objectives. • Perform quarterly TCP and Supplier L/T, MOQ and SPQ Validation. • To resolve quality issues promptly with suppliers especially for the RTV parts. • Adhere to purchase price standards and reschedule deliveries in a timely manner to fulfil the OTD requirements. • Communicates with suppliers for the Engineering Change Order or ECO. • Ensure MRB & RTV are disposition in a timely manner • Work with Materials Planners to ensure that suppliers support overall business needs of Sanmina. • Collaborate with Materials Planners and monitor, track, and provide feedback on suppliers’ performance for continuous improvement. • Adhere to all safety and health rules and regulations associated with this position and as directed by supervisor. • Comply and follow all procedures within the company security policy.

Industry: Electrical & Electronics Specialization: Purchasing/Inventory/Material & Warehouse Management Position Level: Junior Executive Develop and refine material process and system for effective materials management to achieve company goals & objectives. • Defines Site end-to-end Back Office processes and systems to support site management objective and new business needs • Execution campus material system roles to support on system & process readiness for new customer on boarding • Ensure standarization & repeatability processes are up-font built-in with new project implementation • Penang campus Materials System involve in Internal initiative system and business process changes • Support effective and efficient Inventory Management, Procurement related activities, warehouse management processes and system. Ensure inventory accuracy, component traceabililty, inventory shelf life cont ….etc • Continuous identify areas of improvement to fulfill external and internal customer requirement and new business trend & strategy • Understand and analyze user requirement and provide the best process & system solution • Ensure compliance of common process, policies and system functionality • Data and system parameters setting management to ensure data integrity • Play a control tower role on system parameter, policies, and critical inventory movement access right setting. • Buy off on new process & system requirement, testing, training, implementation and post mortem. • Interface with ITSS team on Campus system develop programs, system troubleshooting & integrity

Industry: Manufacturing / Production Specialization: Purchasing/Inventory/Material & Warehouse Management Position Level: Junior Executive A) Daily Purchaser Activities • Issuing PO and follow up PO confirmation from supplier. • Dealing with supplier for shipment expedite, de-expedite and cancellation in order to meet latest production schedule. • Coordinate with marketing and supplier to resolve any discrepancies and negotiations in product pricing, lead time, MOQ and etc. • Follow up closely with suppliers to ensure shipment dock in as per schedule. • Ensure the adequate supply of materials to support the production daily operation per the Master Production Schedule (MPS). • Expedite critical material with supplier and working on alternative source from stockiest, authorized distributors or inter-plant to close materials gap. • Ensuring the selection of the suppliers able to meet company and customer requirement. (E.g. pricing, payment term and etc) • To exercise proper control on inventory stock in order to avoid excess stock • Negotiate with supplier to honor lower price for cost saving purpose • Coordinate and submit claims to marketing for buying material higher than customer quote price. B) Quality Coordination • Involve in MRB & RTV and follow closely with suppliers and Suppliers Quality Engineer (SQE) to solve the quality issue. • Coordinate replacement for the rejected parts. • Arrange rework parts to In-house Third Party Rework such as re-taping or rework.. • CAR (Corrective Action Report) issue to the supplier is which having repeated delivery issue or failed OTD (on time delivery). • Evaluate suppliers' performance according to Suppliers' Quality, Responsiveness & Delivery in order to maintain or enhance the effectiveness & assurance of supply. • Execute quality disposition with Quality Engineers and Business Engineers. Such as return to vendors, sorting, re-taping, outside processing activities. C) Others • Settle payment issues for suppliers