Emsie Odendaal

Background

About Emsie Odendaal

Emsie Odendaal was recently appointed Group Procurement Superintendent Group Leverage Spend in Samancor Chrome. She has twenty two years of experience in variousdepartments in ArcelorMittal South Africa namely Logistics, Procurement,Strategy, Special Projects, Finance and Information Management.Her exceptional learning ability is evident from seamless career moves fromFinance to Information Management (SAP) to Procurement & Logistics toStrategy & Special projects in a short time frame.Her career highlights and achievements includes the participation in theArcelorMittal Procurement and Logistics team savings of more than R600m(2016), R2.2b (2017) and R3.5b (2018); the successful implementation of aCentral Logistics Operation Centre (LOC) for ArcelorMittal South Africa drivingcollaboration, communication and co-ordination between role players in theSupply chain and managing logistics operations; the successful SAP systemimplementation for Accounts Receivable, Business Trip Management andCash Management for Vanderbijlpark Steel in 2002 and the successful SAPSystem upgrades from version 4.6C to ECC6 for all ArcelorMittal South Africabusiness units.She developed successful relationships with key role players in the supply