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Nor Baizura Ismail

Buyer / Purchaser
Bayan Lepas,07

Summary

Dynamic leader with a robust background in guiding teams, managing complex projects, and achieving strategic objectives. Proven ability to develop efficient processes while ensuring high standards and aligning efforts with organizational goals. Recognized for a collaborative approach and unwavering commitment to excellence, combined with extensive experience in sourcing, purchasing, and production planning. Passionate about optimizing supply chains and enhancing operational efficiency, prepared to contribute expertise in strategic sourcing and procurement to drive success within a forward-thinking team.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
4
4
Languages

Work History

Senior Sourcing Executive

Greatech Integration
Bayan Lepas, Penang
05.2023 - 06.2025
  • Sourcing: Identifying potential suppliers and analyzing the market.
  • Procurement: Managing the procurement process from start to finish, including opportunity assessment, data gathering, and vendor selection. Identifying internal and external risk factors that could affect a vendor.
  • Negotiation: Negotiating rebates, establishing contracts that outline pricing and terms, and managing relationships with suppliers.
  • Reporting: Creating reports and managing supplier's assessment and performance. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align sourcing goals.
  • Risk management: Drove innovation in sourcing practices, leading to competitive advantage.
  • Contract management: Reviewing contract terms and working with legal to execute them. Conducted market analysis to identify cost-saving opportunities.
  • Relationship building: Developed supplier relationships, enhancing product quality and delivery.
  • Process improvement: Implemented sourcing strategies that improved supply chain efficiency.
  • Cost Reduction: Through competitive vendor selection, negotiation of terms, and volume quantity discounts, help reduce the cost of goods and services. Led strategic sourcing initiatives, reducing costs by 20% annually.
  • Risk Mitigation: Assess the potential risks associated with a vendor's performance, such as financial stability, delivery timelines, and quality.
  • Time Savings: Streamlined procurement processes, reducing lead times by 30%.
  • Achieved 95% on-time delivery rate through effective vendor management.
  • Trained and mentored junior sourcing staff, boosting team performance.
  • Negotiated favorable payment terms with suppliers, improving cash flow management for the organization.
  • Ensured compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and company policies throughout all sourcing activities.
  • Conducted market analyses to identify trends, risks, and potential new suppliers.
  • Coordinated logistics activities related to inbound shipments of sourced materials, ensuring timely delivery without disruptions.
  • Achieved cost savings by negotiating contracts with suppliers and vendors.
  • Maintained up-to-date knowledge of industry best practices and emerging technologies in the sourcing field, sharing insights with colleagues and stakeholders as appropriate.

Senior Buyer

Venture Electronics Services (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
Bayan Lepas, Penang
08.2018 - 05.2023
  • Lead buyer for the ICT division, whereby I am required to ensure the production clean to build to meet the customer dateline.
  • Responsible for end-to-end management of overall commodities, including electronics (diode, capacitor, resistor, transformer, relays, etc.), mechanical (panel, spring, fasteners, etc.), fabrication (cage, frame, cradle, etc.), and indirect materials such as packaging, cartons, and plastic trays.
  • In charge of compiling and reviewing the PPV submission and MOQT submission to customers.
  • Oversee supplier sourcing, negotiation, cost control, and supply chain optimization to ensure quality, delivery, and cost targets are consistently met.
  • Purchase goods, materials, components, or services in line with specified cost, quality, and delivery targets.
  • Ensure a continuous supply of required goods and materials, and communicate any supply problems that may pose a risk or impact business operations.
  • Deliver briefs, updates, and reports as and when required by the customers and management. Also, chair a weekly meeting with the customer to update on the project status and highlight those high-risk parts in the CTB.
  • Develop ideas and strategies to improve operational efficiency, add value, aid business performance, and work towards a strategy of continuous improvement.
  • Explore alternate sources for goods and materials. This applies to electronic components, which are common worldwide and have limited resources.
  • Prepare purchase orders in line with final negotiations with selected suppliers, and in line with organizational targets and requirements.
  • Undertake research on and evaluate existing and new suppliers. Additionally, identify areas of opportunity and reduce costs where possible.
  • Contact suppliers to resolve price, quality, delivery, or invoice issues.
  • Mentor and coach junior buyers to enhance their career and professional development.
  • Stay current and up to date on any changes that may affect the supply and demand of needed products and materials, and advise others of any impact.
  • Attend meetings and communicate with interdepartmental related persons on issues or concerns, in particular when there is a risk that could prevent the organization from meeting customer demands or where there are overcapacity concerns.
  • Support product change requests, and review and communicate to ensure compliance with the Health, Safety, and Environmental Policies.
  • Managing the supplier with JIT, smart bin, N+X (N+2, N+3, etc.) according to customer demand and forecast.
  • To analyze the supplier's commitment to ensure it can cover supplier demand and supply for up to 4 weeks and 8 weeks.

Buyer / Purchaser

Venture Electronic Services (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
Bayan Lepas, Penang
02.2015 - 08.2018
  • Ensure products movement from suppliers to retail outlets. Take inventory and analyze all documentation such as invoices, bills and other supply documents.
  • Prepare monthly AOS report.
  • Analyze items and check the quality of materials before preparing them for dispatch.
  • Make sure all supplies are sent on due time. Monitor the stock levels.
  • Register all documents and handle customers and suppliers databases.
  • Ensure compliance with supply chain activities standards and regulations.
  • Establish and maintain collaborating relationships with customers, suppliers and supply chain staff.
  • Perform research activities in order to identify new solutions for logistical challenges.
  • Perform several clerical duties for management.
  • Prepare reports concerning supply chain operations.
  • Assist the supply chain manager in planning and organizing the distribution of goods.
  • Determines and develops appropriate sources of supply and maintains cooperative working relationships with vendors to stay current with trends and technologies, products and services.
  • Send PO to the suppliers (email).
  • Interact with the suppliers on a day to day basis for delivery. Review deliveries against the orders.
  • Track the status of any orders.
  • Deal with non supplied, under orders, over orders and damaged goods.
  • Ensure that any invoices are sent to accounts for payment.
  • Resolves problems and issues arising from purchase of services, supplies and equipment with internal and external clients.

Production Control Planner

Paradigm Precision Components
Bayan Lepas, Penang
09.2013 - 02.2015
  • Plan and manages production schedules to ensure 100% on-time delivery of all customer orders.
  • Responsible for the analysis of sales order releases with respect to capacity planning and material requirements.
  • Complete shipping information and delivery date input. Interface with manufacturing personnel, purchasing personnel, etc. on material status and production planning issues.
  • Will be required to perform other duties as requested, directed or assigned.
  • Plans and schedules workflow for each department and operation according to previously established manufacturing sequences and lead times.
  • Plans sequence of fabrication, assembly, installation, and other manufacturing operations for guidance of production workers.
  • Confers with department supervisors to determine status of assigned projects.
  • Expedites operations that delay schedules and alters schedules to meet unforeseen conditions.
  • Prepares production reports, release product travelers to production.
  • Create a machine conversion for machinists.
  • Issue out material and standard part for production use in order to make sure part to ship out without any delay. 100% support on other department (e.g packing, assemble parts) to ensure delivery on time.
  • Need to prepare lists of required materials, tools, and equipment.
  • Need to prepare purchase orders to obtain materials, tools, and equipment.
  • Enhanced communication between departments, improving workflow.
  • Analyzed production data, driving strategic decision-making.
  • Developed KPIs to measure production success and drive improvements.

Sales Co-ordinator Cum Admin

ISO Technology Sdn Bhd (Isochemical)
Bayan Lepas, Penang
09.2011 - 09.2013
  • PO & PR PROCESS: When receiving PO need to be process and check quotation validity. To request new quotation from supplier. Raising PR buying material once confirmed the cheapest price from supplier. Get commit date from supplier. Follow up until item was delivered to main store.
  • Customer service: Providing customer with the best support, make sure that customer order been deliver on time, ensure 100% customer satisfaction, handling customer complaints, commit the best delivery date and make sure that hit target.
  • Coordinate supplier: to ensure all purchase order been send out to supplier and get commitment date from them, follow up with supplier from time to time, transportation arrangement to pick up part at supplier side, requesting quotation and negotiate for better pricing, sourcing for supplier to support customer requirement, to make sure supplier follow company procedure when delivering goods, to make a better relationship with supplier, ETA/ETD provided by supplier must not be missed.
  • Logistics & store: In control of all import shipment from supplier side, fully control on logistics such as forwarder trucking, air-freight & sea freight, custom paperwork and clearance, receives and inspects all incoming materials and reconciles with purchase orders; processes and distributes documentation with purchase orders; reports, documents and tracks damages and discrepancies on orders received, ships canceled and damaged items back to vendors as appropriate, handles and documents storage and transportation of hazardous materials, having the knowledge of basic storekeeper.

Planner

SAM Meerkat Technologies Sdn Bhd
Bayan Lepas, Penang
09.2009 - 05.2011
  • Order Processing: Work with Project Leader on requirements, retrieve drawing and issue lot traveler, create work order and Lot assigning, preparing and issue the lot traveler to related departments.
  • Material Planning: Confirm Inventory and raise PR for material, confirm the material availability to ensure production can operate as per plan, coordinate with Supply Chain to ensure all the fabrication parts come in time, coordinate with Purchasing for standard parts, prepare for packaging PR.
  • Capacity and Production Scheduling: Work out capacity plan with production as per requirements, to feedback the commitments date to customer, to follow up the whole operation chain to meet the commitment date.
  • Progress Monitoring: Production, QA and Delivery: Daily monitor production progress versus schedule plan, update the progress into the master plan, push between inter-department to ensure all in time, ensure the link from production until Finish Production, coordinate with inter-department from Store, Production, QA, Supply Chain and Logistics until final QA to ensure parts ready to ship, arrange the parts to subcontractor for finishing process and also follow up the parts back in time.
  • Delivery Handling: Follow up with Outgoing QA to ensure the parts ready to deliver, follow up on packaging to ensure the goods pack accordingly, confirm the parts in order to deliver, arrange with logistic person for delivery.
  • Ad-hoc Support: Coordinate with fabrication vendors directly on urgent delivery support, coordinate on quality issue with QA and fabrication vendors to meet the delivery commitment, arranging the rejection parts back to vendors for reworking to support the delivery commitment.

Education

Diploma - Business Studies/Administration/Management: BUSINESS STUDY

Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM)
Arau, 09
01.2009

Skills

  • Experienced with Microsoft Office applications

  • Clear verbal and written communication

  • Analytical problem-solving

  • Inventory management systems

  • Leadership capabilities

  • Hazardous material handling

Supplier management

Strategic supplier negotiations

Efficient procurement strategies

Customer-oriented mindset

ERP implementation experience

Data-driven demand analysis

Strong ability to manage multiple tasks

Cross-functional teamwork

References

Reference available upon request

Timeline

Senior Sourcing Executive

Greatech Integration
05.2023 - 06.2025

Senior Buyer

Venture Electronics Services (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
08.2018 - 05.2023

Buyer / Purchaser

Venture Electronic Services (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
02.2015 - 08.2018

Production Control Planner

Paradigm Precision Components
09.2013 - 02.2015

Sales Co-ordinator Cum Admin

ISO Technology Sdn Bhd (Isochemical)
09.2011 - 09.2013

Planner

SAM Meerkat Technologies Sdn Bhd
09.2009 - 05.2011

Diploma - Business Studies/Administration/Management: BUSINESS STUDY

Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM)

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