Abbie Digings

Summary of Main Duties:

• Management of supply base covering a range of raw materials and engineered products.

• Strengthening contractual agreements supplier portfolio, contributing to improved product availability with optimised lead times and reduced take or pay commitments.

• Appointed continuous improvement lead, initiating idea generation across the Sourcing team & collaborating with other department to ensure the development and implementation of continuous improvement projects across the business.

•Tendering new business requirements to existing and new suppliers ensuring Napier achieves enhanced market conditions.

• Managing commercial forecasts & MRP to ensure enhanced product availability and minimised inventory levels.

• Influencing excellent supplier performance and product availability via effective supplier relationship management.

• Via close collaboration with Engineering and Quality Management delivered successful sample processes for new suppliers transitioning into full product production.

• Ensuring product availability via liaison with freight forwarding agents, ensuring effective clearance of overseas orders.

Key Achievements:

• Spearheaded successful migration of speed sensors category from a ‘problem’ supplier to a reliable established supplier to enhancing business operational requirements.

Transformation benefits include:

• Improvement of lead times from 30 weeks to 10 weeks,
• On-time delivery performance from 37% to 90%.
• Annual cost reduction benefits of £45,000 from a spend of £250,000. 18%
• Successfully negotiated a 12-month supplier agreement for raw materials ensuring it has been benchmarked to current market conditions.

Transformation benefits include:

• Future supply tied to market indexes.
• Annual cost reduction of £6,000 from a spend of £40,000. 15%
• Successful on-boarding & validating of 2 new suppliers. This including secondary sources for raw materials and fasteners mitigating risks against two previously single sourced categories.

Summary of Main Duties:

• Placing orders for stock and building Halo stock catalogues both national & international.
• Liaison and relationship management with suppliers on product availability & lead times and sourcing alternate items for customer requirements when needed.
• Maintenance and setting inventory levels based on seasonal demands utilising company IT systems.
• Sourcing new products in line with current trends and negotiating discounts levels with suppliers.

Key Achievements:

• Ensuring key customer accounts are adequately fulfilled and aligned to budget levels.
• Liaising with suppliers on new product introduction. Ensuring client branding requirements are maintained, commercial targets are achieved & initial samples are delivered on time.
• Transformed company supplier approval & vendor rating system, delivering an in-depth analysis of both quantitative and qualitative supplier performance.
• Optimized several operating processes. Re-engineering and removing waste driving enhanced efficiency.

Transformation benefits include:

• Optimised labour time from approximately 9hrs per week to 4hrs per week, freeing up 5hrs per week for value added tasks.
• Developed a suite of standard operating procedures (SOP) for the business; including a product availability tracker for catalogues, shipping file composition for invoice reconciliation, expediting reports for order tracking.

Summary of Main Duties:

• Raising Purchase Orders utilising chosen business system for Aramark.

• Sourcing labour for contracts via preferred agreements with agencies. If labour could not be supplied by preferred agencies I would source requirements on the open market.

• Sourcing supplier quotations and preparing subsequent sales quotations to Aramark customers in line with gross profit requirements.

• Checking time sheets are in line with agreed hours and rates and approving in a timely fashion.

• Purchasing consumables and ensuring sites consumable consumption is in line with pre-agreed budgets.

Key Achievements:

• Ensured that all sites under my control remained operational and within budget.

• Improved stock availability whilst maintaining cash to budgetary levels.

Summary of Main Duties:

• Service user personal & social care, including hygiene, nutrition, hydration & companionship.

• Providing key documentation of tasks during patient visits.

• Medicines distribution and appropriate documentation.

• Taking on a position of leadership when working with newer carers and ensuring adherence to time limits.

• Remaining level-headed and following appropriate procedures in emergency situations.