Mandy Saunders is a South African procurement professional with over 10 years of experience. She has worked in procurement roles at Spasa Pty Ltd, Net1 Applied Technology, and Dimension Data. Her responsibilities have included managing supplier relationships, generating purchase orders, inventory management, and ensuring adherence to procurement policies and procedures. She holds qualifications in secondary procurement and supply chain management.

1. PERSONAL DETAILS
Name Mandy Saunders
ID Number 780830 0267 084
Cell No 083 389 2632
E-mail address saunders.mandy4@gmail.com
Nationality South African
Languages English and Afrikaans
Gender Female
Driver’s Licence Yes
Own transport Yes
Location Strubensvalley, Roodepoort
QUALIFICATIONS
Matric Hoerskool Brits
Secondary Procurement and Supply Chain Management - Completed: December
2016 (Damilin)
Supplementary courses • Soft Skills Client service and Communication Skills
• Selling Skills
• Product Training
• Excel Course / Certificate
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Spasa Pty Ltd
(2014 - Current)
Position: Procurement, in and outbound team leader
Main Responsibilities:
• Review and receipt of components
• Barcoding and testing
• Identifying procurement needs
• Manage and maintain supplier relationships
• Facilitate maintenance goods and services when required
• Delivery timeframes and methods
• Complete purchase orders and issue to suppliers
• Expediting and liaising with supplier regarding lead times
• Assisting staff on queries of the status of orders

2. • Review and receipt of components
• Submitting invoices to finance department
• Inventory and stock control over component received and barcoding
thereof ( Lephalale )
•
Secondary duties
• Design and implementation of purchase order processes
• Perform ad hoc duties from management, for example facilitating of meter
readings at the project site ( Lephalale )
• Assisting with preparation of tenders
• Document control
• Administration duties
• Reception
Products and services
• Procurement of goods and services in the establishment of the new head
office
• Office supplies
• Business cards
• Facilities management
Net1 Applied
Technology
(2012 –2014)
Position: Senior Buyer
Main Responsibilities
• Generate purchase orders, attention to detail (pricing and, discounts
descriptions and cost codes of each department and region)
• Respond to orders within the Service Level Agreement and ensure strict
adherence to the terms and conditions of the SLA
• Managing orders and liaising with the branches on progress of orders
• Expediting and liaising with supplier regarding lead times
• Distributing of stock to relevant departments and warehouses
• Manage and maintain supplier relationships
• Resolving all queries associated with the purchase order

3. • Interact with both internal and external customers in a timely and
professional manner
• Facilitate maintenance goods and services when required
• Adhering to purchasing from the company’s supplier database
• Reporting to management
• Ensuring all requisitions are approved in terms of delegation of authority
• Verification of completeness and accuracy of goods received.
• Confirming receipt of inventory through preparation and completion of
Goods Received Notes
• Providing financial accounting department with relevant supporting
documented (Such as purchase orders, invoices, etc.) for payment
• Responding to queries from financial accounting department in respect of
creditors queries that might arise.
• Payment tracking for all cash-on-delivery orders
• Compliance with Company’s procurement policies and procedures
Secondary Responsibilities
• Perform ad hoc duties from management
• Document control
• Administration duties
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
• Bulk quantities of airtime from MTN, VODACOM, CELL C, TELKOM, 8TA
• Office equipment (stationary) and office consumables for numerous
branches
• Storage boxes, business cards, letter heads
• Warehouse; bolts, wiring, tools for repairs.
Dimension Data
(November 2007 – June
2012)
Position: Global Senior Buyer
Position: Senior Buyer
Main Responsibilities
• Manage procurement of purchases up to supplier shipping
• Monitoring and updating orders on internal IT systems

4. • Facilitating export hold on orders as well as expedites
• Manage and maintain supplier relationships
• Respond to orders within the Service Level Agreements with suppliers
and ensure strict adherence to the terms and conditions of the SLA
• Generating purchase orders, with attention to detail (discounts and
service support charges)
• Resolving all queries associated with the purchase order
• Following up with shipping of end users components with Cisco
• Compliance with Company’s procurement policies and procedures
Secondary Responsibilities
• Provide on job training of new team members
• Document control
• Administration duties
Products and services
• Cisco equipment on Cisco directly for emerging African countries and
all provinces within South Africa
• Different components in different models of hardware, as per customer
requirements as in hard drive size, memory, etc
• Servers
• Routers
Software
• Network solutions
ATTRIBUTES
Workplace • Drive cost saving
• Dedicated and hard working
• A confident professional
• Excellent verbal and communication skills
• Problem solving skills