Antoine Fedou

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ABOUT ANTOINE FEDOU

Professional buyer, offering seven years of extensive experience in purchasing and sourcing wide variety of products, software, services and sub-contracts. • Executed procurement and outsourcing plans, while working closely with cross-company managers, engineers, departments. Coordinated with manufacturers, suppliers and subcontractors. • Now looking forward to making a continued significant contribution to a forward thinking company in return for a Buyer / Senior Buyer or a similar appointment that offers opportunity for progression. • Excellent negotiator and communicator. • Decision maker, confident and self-assured. • Good analytical skills and excellent business planning. • Highly skilled in planning, organizing and procuring merchandise • Identified the needs for our activity and prospecting for new suppliers. • Analyzed the capacity of the supplier selected to respond to our need. • Negotiation in terms of price, availability, delivery, maintenance, warranty… • Ensuring product volumes and order flow in order to achieve target sales objectives. • Liaison with Marketing and Sales Management to ensure effectiveness of sales campaigns and promotions. • Purchased all raw materials and spares for all factory machinery. • Input orders onto the sales system, raised quotations and estimates requested by customers. • Using SAP to create purchase order and various reports to check stocks and invoice information • Process all purchase orders for engineering, maintenance, averaging total annual procurement expenses of 1.2 million euros. • Development of alternative local sources for imported raw materials which helps in cost saving. • Planning and budgeting of purchase functions, involving cost estimation, contract negotiations.