Manny Dolon

From 8 years experience in materials planning as MRP Controller II, promoted to Purchasing Manager leading a team of buyers and expediters assigned in the procurement of Dairy, Oils & Fats ingredients. Primary role is to ensure timely procurement of ingredients for dairy, bakery & infant formulation via contracts, purchase orders and schedule agreements in adherence to the company policy of procuring. Deals also with purchasing thru the Fonterra Global Dairy Trading for Dairy commodities. Monitors and manages the activities of buyers and expediters who maintains approximately 100 SKUs and reports to the Senior Purchasing Manager. Establishes supplier relationship through strategic buying and maintains the current vendor relations with annual business reviews to know the issues and resolve it constructively.

Promoted to managerial position as MRP Controller. Manages the team of inventory planners and expediters. Ensures that PRs / POs are in place for material ordering in accordance with lead time. Monitors and ensures that suppliers are providing the services needed to align with the company’s requirement. Forecast review periodically after demand planning circulates it and uploaded in the system. Optimize inventory parameters in the system aligning with desirable turn-over. Maintain a good supplier relationship thru regular interaction and meetings to ensure that both are in the same purpose - to serve Almarai material requirement for its business. Data monitoring and management in order to provide information for a more accurate planning. Take part in New Product Development and ensuring that needed materials are ordered accordingly for the launch. See to it that the team is performing more than expected and achieve the excellence in service to both internal & external customers

After 2 years as Inventory Planner, promoted into supervisory position as Materials Requirement Planning Supervisor. Supervision of Inventory Planners ensuring that they plan and maintain desired stock levels for their designated portfolios. Creation of Purchase Request (PR) in SAP to maintain agreed holding stocks of ingredients & packaging is processed on time. Liaise with Central Procurement for any issues regarding supply dealing with any impact on service. Maintain a portfolio working capital within budget levels with optimized planning. Ensure that SOPs are followed and training being undertaken by Inventory Planners ensuring 100% service of materials for production. Prompt escalation and resolution of issues while the standard of work efficiency for the team is uplifted with monitoring of staff's daily activities

Started as direct employee of Almarai with the responsibility of ensuring that optimized practical plan is in place in reference to daily production planning meeting. Prepares run out plans especially in cases of new design change , recipes and ingredients as per marketing directives. Continuous monitoring of stocks of ingredients on a daily basis using MD04 and MD07 in SAP as well as SAP APO module. Purchase Request preparation for PO generation on a monthly & quarterly. Forecast information to Procurement Team and Suppliers on a regular basis. Generate system call offs in SAP for deliveries of ingredients for local suppliers. Coordinates with sales and marketing for new design projects as well as change over projects. Analyzes usages, forecasts and deliveries for ingredients as well as support the same with other materials handled by other planners. Prepares the plan in SAP for the in house production of Blow Molding Machines for bottles and Injection Machines for caps on a monthly basis. Run out plans & what if scenarios are prepared in case there are changes in artwork design, recipes and ingredients as per marketing directives. Report to MRP Supervisor.

Responsibilities include PO generation, maintaining documentation records, i.e. POs, PRs, Quotations, Import documents such as licenses, certificate of analysis and origins, supplier invoices & delivery notes. Also assist the senior buyer in price negotiations and ensuring that deliveries come in as per the time specified in the purchase order.

My career spanned for 12 years in this prestigious automotive battery manufacturing company in the Philippines. A leading company Motolite has been the top brand in the country for more than half a century to date. Started as a Quality Technician at the plant for 5 years from 1990 up to 1995. Moving to the Sales and Marketing Department after being a working student finishing my Bachelors Degree in Accountancy in 1994. From being a credit and collection clerk I was promoted to Retail Sales Supervisor who is overall in charge of a team of 7 personnel catering to sales of automotive & industrial batteries, tires, automotive oils & lubricants as well as automotive maintenance and repair services. Buying of materials for sales & office supplies and negotiates pricing at value that will ensure profitability. Prepared and distributed statement of accounts, collection letters, affidavits and follow up letters. System posting of credit and debit memos and other adjustments and well exposed to direct customer dealings and contact. With a monthly sales quota of estimated 1,000 assorted units I was able to hit the 1 Million Peso Value mark on bank deposit which was not done by the previous administrator.

An organization of students taking up Accounting degree. Coordination with fellow students and professors on techniques of accounting and up to date modules and programs for enhancement going forward to being a Certified Accountant.