Wen Pin Yee

• Create sourcing plans that secure supply and minimize supply chain disruptions, following category sourcing strategies for Brunei, Malaysia and Philippines.
• Review sourcing plans with internal stakeholders to agree and align on action plans associated with projected cost savings impacts.
• Leading team in developing action plans, timelines, and resource assignments for sourcing projects which covered 55% of overall spend, and obtained 12% cost savings YOY.
• Lead request for information, quotation or proposal and bidding processes, minimizing risk and maximizing value in terms of quality, delivery and total cost of ownership.
• Lead supplier evaluation and selection processes in coordination with Quality standards, Requestors, and Supplier Managers.
• Negotiate prices and terms with suppliers to meet quality, delivery, and cost objectives. Handover negotiated contract to requestors.
• Lead contracting process with suppliers in coordination with Sourcing Specialists, Contract Team, and internal stakeholders.
• Monitor sourcing projects to ensure on-time completion and guaranteed supply for all portfolios and adjust project according to dynamic market condition.
• Build strong relationships with internal customers to meet objectives.
• Identify opportunities and implement actions to continuously reduce wasted time, red money and resources.
• Support in compliance with company and local procedures applicable through the sourcing activities.
• Managed budgeting process for different P&L, monitoring spending against targets, and identify potential sourcing event to increase bottom.
• Managing in-house ERPs migration to SAP.
• Reviewed and approved purchase orders and invoices for accuracy and completeness.

• Implement common Supply Chain policies, procedures, and processes in Country.
• Support in providing supporting documents and investigation conducted by internal auditors.
• Support to ensure supply chain function remains agile and resilience in supporting company to operate under Energy Sectors during MCO
• Support company restructuring during downturn while maintaining business operations as usual.
• Development, implementation, and alignment of global sourcing strategies and global supplier network capabilities for key categories.
• Oversee import/export and domestic logistics in Country to ensure goods delivery at right place, time, and cost.
• Ensure compliance with trade compliance and control (TCC) and local regulations in Country.
• Manage inventory policies implementation in Country, consistent with global distribution guidelines and considering local specificities.
• Monitor supplier performance and provide direction on improvement actions.
• Identify opportunities and implement actions of continuous improvement activities within Supply Chain Department, i.e. 3LP warehousing, Cross Border Trucking, VMI

• Managing the Indirect & Infrastructure category for Middle East & Asia
• Promoting best practices from a country’s business process to another country to drive CI.
• Support & lead the team in resolving any complex escalations.
• Overcame challenging deadlines and resource limitations by reallocating personnel and focusing on priority tasks.
• Conduct scheduled performance reviews with internal clients & address operation issues.
• Resolved daily issues by handling invoice discrepancies, replacements for rejected materials and missed and late deliveries.
• Devised and implemented policies and procedures which related to Internal Entertainment, Business Gifts & Donations.
• Support in various Project Procurement related to local infrastructure / Building renovations to control within budget and project timeline.
• Resolve any kind of operational issue & remove the backlog from the team.
• Conduct performance reviews with team on monthly, coached and trained to improve weak areas immediately.

• Leading in restructuring Purchasing Service Center’s (PSC) resource allocation vs Overall Demand from Middle East & Asia
• Reallocating the resources for all category teams with the new work scope of the purchasing specialist.
• Stabilize the new operating model with zero impact on daily operations.
• Established a new dispatching model to ensure daily 1000+ requests are assigned within SLA.
• Working with the developer team to create Auto Bot to process catalogue requests automatically via RPA solution.
• Handle all escalation from the field operation to PSC and work with different stakeholders to provide resolution accordingly.
• Daily review and track purchasing specialist workload and liaise with the Category team to conduct workload management.
• Optimized operational workflows by identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions that led to smoother processes across the organization.
• Increased team productivity by streamlining business processes to adapt to the local country's upturn/downturn.
• Support entire business reviews for the PSC with a local team to resolve any operational hiccups.

• Coverage of Drilling & Evaluation purchasing activities for the entire Middle East & Asia
• Conduct scheduled performance reviews with internal clients & address operation issues.
• Managing a diverse team & ensuring adequate resources to support operations, in conjunction with different holiday seasons.
• Resolved daily issues by handling invoice discrepancies, replacements for rejected materials and missed and late deliveries.
• Devised and implemented policies and procedures for purchasing and inventory control.
• Identify sourcing opportunities based on complex data, and proposals to expand the supplier’s portfolio to increase cost savings.
• Improving purchasing activities & providing preventive actions to post-fact / catch up costs from operations.
• Support in managed budgets for purchasing and projected purchasing needs, expedite & de-expedite the delivery from suppliers.
• Created a hands-on training program for newly hired employees to acclimate each person to company policies and procedures and individual job duties.
• Resolve any kind of operational issue & remove the backlog from the team.
• Conduct performance reviews with the team on monthly basis
• Fostered a culture of continuous learning within the procurement team, regularly sharing best practices and industry trends to drive innovation.

• Support in the standardized and migrated purchasing process for Indonesia and China into the shared service center.
• Be responsible for purchase order (PO) processing to comply with the Financial Manual, and create PO correctly according to quotation/commercial proposal.
• Support the user in defining purchase requests when needed and comply to correct buying channel for each request; choose the best supplier in terms of price, quality and lead time.
• Liaise with stakeholders & requestors in locations when handling projects procurement.
• Manage day-to-day interactions with suppliers, P2P Specialist, and stakeholders.
• Perform problem-solving by liaising with different domains stakeholders to enhance procurement experiences for operations.
• Perform the purchasing in line with the category team’s strategy.
• Identify Sourcing/catalogue opportunities to the sourcing team to capture savings projects.
• Propose documentation changes and process improvements when required.
• Track deviations and raise nonconformances in QUEST.
• Participate in continuous improvement projects.
• Use all required procurement tools when required or mandated by process (Ariba, ASL, QUEST).

• Off-shore & migrate procurement processes from Vale Oman & Vale Mozambique, then centralize the procurement activities in ValeServe Malaysia

• Work closely with each regional procurement & logistics to increase cost reduction performance and on-time delivery in full quantity (OTIF).

• Assist in purchase requisition treatment (PRT) department & inventory department to identify internal requests with sufficient information, such as product specification, brand/part number, drawing, etc.

• Constantly assessing & sourcing globally to expand supplier database. Encourage healthy price competition without compromising the product’s quality & after-sales services.

• Strategically handle Ad-hoc, urgent, direct requisitions from end users while making sure daily productivity meets the department’s KPI together with the team.

• Constantly review process improvement by eliminating redundancy & standardizing workflow together with the team.

• Assist in Supplier Development by expanding their profile to support Vale in different regions.

• Analyze the historical purchase data of each internal client’s countries; assess the opportunity of each product/supplier to be bonded with contract/catalogue purchase based on 80/20 concept and Operational/Critical items.

• Daily review of department KPI, provide aid and guidance to peers to increase productivity and performance.

• Assess & analyze quarterly material management planning and 6 months production capacity planning against with WD demand strategy.

• Having quarterly negotiation to achieved cost reduction at 1~3% to enhance cost competency.

• To develop and implement cost reduction plan without compromising quality delivery as per engineering requirements.

• Analyze WD demand strategy weekly, compare with inventory and supply source then advise impact and action plan.

• Closely monitoring material supply demand planning to ensure on-time delivery

• Constantly review supply strategy to ensure all foreseen problems which could jeopardize the business are solved and/or escalated to management in advance with the solution proposed.

• Work closely with Regional Procurement, Production, Mechanical Engineer, Design Engineer, and Supplier Quality Engineer department to develop strategies and action plans to ensure performance and continuous improvement of cost saving, further, to comply with company’s policy and procedures.

• To advise, control and ensure the accuracy of material management planning for the product’s end-of-life exposure risk.

• Chair quarterly business and quality review meeting with vendors to sharpen potential improvement and assess potential process improvement in term of commercial & quality.

• Work together with Supplier Quality Engineer to conduct suppliers’ site audit to monitor & evaluating supplier’s performance.

• Resolve in component and material configuration matrix issue to deliver the best-in-class end product to consumer.

• Assist in new product development from design stage to mass production, to ensure best configuration matrix’s performance in minimum cost.

• Assess supplier tooling capacity ramp up accordingly to meet WD demand planning. And tooling invested economically justified & while meeting engineering specification.

• Active participation in plant wide Physical Inventory inspection.