Azuka Margaret Ifebunandu

Company Overview: Industry: Banking & Financial Services

• Managed supply chain operations, including procurement, logistics, and inventory management of medical services department
• Developed and implemented strategies to optimize our supply chain process and reducing our overall costs by 40%
• Negotiating and saving cost using contracting knowledge and strategic outsourcing agreement structures and pricing models to gain value
• Managing procure-to-pay process, ensuring a tightened invoicing and payment process to minimize bottlenecks affecting strong vendor relationships
• Collaborated with other unit users to interpret forecasts and analyse data to plan purchasing needs
• Created cross functional reporting which provided real time insight to stakeholders on requisition status and bottlenecks
• Strong analytical mind and problem-solving skills to identify patterns, trends and insights from data to enable accurate forecasting
• Familiarity with data visualization tools, such as Power BI, to create interactive dashboards and reports

Company Overview: Industry: Healthcare

• Enhanced procurement turnaround time using category strategies, competitive analysis, and sourcing expertise
• Sourced vendors-built relationships and negotiated prices
• Ensured all vendors possessed the required paperwork and delivery was on time
• Collated data for and prepared required purchasing reports to ensure compliance with related laws and regulations
• Championed a customer focused culture through team training which deepened stakeholder relationships and operational efficiency
• Optimized the procure-to-pay cycle by achieving a 50% reduction on overdue supplier payments and improving vendor relations

Company Overview: Industry: Healthcare

• Tracking receipts of items and processing invoices for all purchases
• Monitoring and maintaining stock level of drugs and supplies accurately to have detailed paper trail
• Ensuring that all the items supplied to the central store are of reliable brands and expiration dates are checked
• Teaming up with other health professionals in the medical department to donate medical supplies to the General hospitals and orphanages in Abuja as part of the Corporate social responsibility of the Police
• Monitoring of the workflows involving the ordering, administration, and billing of medications throughout the system to ensure compliance
• Involved in all the stages of drug supply to improve drug availability and quality

• Mandatory One year internship Programme