Procurement for Motisun , oversees this vital part of the business from his office in Dar es Salaam and manages a team of procurement professionals there in each of the businesses .

The businesses are very diverse , he says . “ Under the Sayona brand , we diverse range of juices , carbonated soft drinks and packaged drinking water , and we started going into pure fruit juices , which are produced at state of the art a new plant on a 40-acre site in the Mboga area , Bagamoyo , which is 150 km from Dar es Salaam .” The juices are prepared using fresh fruit sourced from Tanzania , and the beauty of this product is that fresh fruit of the highest quality , such as mangos , pineapple , Guava and Orange is available across Africa .

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A global leader , Manoj Kumar , has a successful history in supply chain management involving procurement , vendor management , material requirements planning & continuous process improvements in diverse industries like paint , chemical , steel , plastic , hospitality ( food & beverage ) in India , Tanzania and Africa . In a career spanning more than 15 years , he has collaborated with teams to manage a wide range of procurement and supply chain processes consisting of assessment & transformation , warehouse management , vendor management / sourcing , risk management , value management / Value engineering , financial management , and been a key contributor to the development and implementation of continuous improvement initiatives . He has acquired expertise in analysing market activities to build into category strategies to minimise supply risk , drive competitive market advantage , augment productivity & increase operational efficiencies via implementation of standardised processes across all procurement areas . africa . businesschief . com