The Procurement Assistant will be responsible fortheAdministration of general Supply Chain functions and liaising with external and internal stakeholders. Duties and responsibilities Liaising with external and internal stakeholders Order management (place, confirm estimated time of arrival, receiving, escalation) Book shipments with freight forwarders Track shipments Track GRVs (Good received vouchers) Action ASNs (Advanced Shipping Notices) with distributor Local manufacturing administration (Order Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients and Packaging and place orders with local manufacturers) Stock control (UPD Distribution Centre snapshot, Inter Branch Transfers (IBT), CapeTown Replenishment etc) Weekly stock report (Communication with sales) Create payment requisitions Communication with Quality Assurance (QA) regarding urgent releases Administration of general Supply Chain functions: Assist Tender Manager with Tender applications (Administration) Responding to tender request for quotes Send monthly forecasts to suppliers Stock holding analysis Order sign offs Navigating the procurement model Analysing stock levels Reconciling orders placed and received Monthly procurement roll-over Creating out of stock & discontinued stock letters Product creation creating product descriptions and codes on fact sheet Create the marketing fact sheet for sales and marketing to use with customers Create the product with the receiving warehouse #J-18808-Ljbffr