Curriculum Vitae of Peter William Purdon Telephone number (cell) : (***)-***-**** Postal Address : Unit C Villa Del Re 10 Somerset Street Florida Park 1709 E-Mail : ****@*****.*** Marital Status : Married Driver’s licence : Code 08 Nationality : South African Home Language : English Other Language : Afrikaans Educational Qualifications: Last School Attended : Port Shepstone High Level Attained : Matric Extra Mural : Cricket, rugby, swimming, tennis Current Sport : Long-distance running (including Comrades) Further Education: Diploma : Production & Inventory Management (S.A.P.I.C.S.) Diploma : Management Development Programme (UNISA School of Business Leadership) Courses Undertaken : Programme for Management Development- (Some) UCT Graduate School of Business Leadership. Allen Professional Managers Loss Control Management M.O.S. Act Mentorship Management Skills Role of J.I.T. in T.I. Manufacturing Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel Supply Chain-Inventory Audit Cycle Counting Employment History : (Management Experience) 1999 to 2018 ZF Sachs S.A. (Pty) Ltd. (part of world-wide ZF Friedrichshafen AG Group) Logistics Manager, reporting to Managing Director. Responsibilities: Purchasing (+-90% Imports)finished goods and raw materials. (Average receipts of 2 containers per week). Annual budgeting and cost control to monthly budget. On-the-job training. Customer liaison and delivery. Warehousing and all Supply Chain functions up to and including Invoicing and Despatch, including picking and issuing all material to Manufacturing, using Syspro software package MRP, Inventory, Purchase Order, and Work in Progress modules and personally updated Bills of Material. Monitor stock turns. Monitor sales against budget and stock availability against forecast. Control Rebate warehouse. Continuous Stocktaking. Departmental discipline. Safety and Security. Housekeeping. Responsible for relevant elements of ISO TS16949 (e.g.Preservation of Stock) and ISO 14001. 3400 line items and staff of 16. Responsible for winding up all materials in company for closing down of company in June, 2018, including packing and shipping all parts back to Germany (+- 40 containers), scrapping non-saleable parts and carrying out final deliveries to customers to ensure smooth transfer to sister company. Reason for leaving: Retrenched because Company closed down end June, 2018. 1988 - 1998 Henred Fruehauf Trailers (Pty) Ltd. (part of Trencor) Material Control Manager, responsible to Manufacturing Director Responsibilities: Controlled all incoming material for manufacturing heavy trailers (up to 30m3 tippers, platform trailers, road tankers, 40ft flat rack containers, 6m.dry-freight containers, tank containers, trailer spare parts). Purchasing (+_ R100M. per annum including imports), Warehousing and Logistics, including J.I.T., operating Impact Award / Encore (later Syspro), Master Production Schedule, relevant ISO9002 Elements, Obsolete Stock disposal, Loss Control. Staff of 34. Reason for leaving: Retrenched November 1998 together with most Senior Management and some Directors. 1979 - 1987 Rand Mines Assistant Chief Storekeeper to Assistant Admin. Manager (Stores). Duties included Warehousing (7500 Line items), Logistics, Barstores Computer System, plus specified, tested and implemented Systems at Group mines. Audited Group mines, formulated Procedures, held Group Training courses. Finally responsible for Procurement, Logistics, Budgeting. Staff of 32. 1976 - 78 SHELL & BP Service Co., Vryheid. Depot Manager Warehousing & Logistics Staff of 14. Supply Chain experience: 31 years.