Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintain a safe and clean work environment by following company safety procedures. Contribute to a Safety-First Culture by identifying Risky Situations.
- Initiate supplier PO contracts from approved requisitions (Blanket and Discrete Orders).
- Submit RFQs to suppliers as required and implement strategic pricing opportunities initiated by Sourcing Mgr.
- Convey all critical conformance requirements submitted by the Supplier Quality Engineer to suppliers with each PO.
- Administer PO changes related to MRP reschedule messages and ECO disposition actions.
- Negotiate supplier discrete order promise dates, root cause late deliveries, and initiate supplier corrective actions
- Working with Planning to establish release quantities and planning settings for purchased material.
- Plan and coordinate the timing, quantity, and on-time delivery of components with our suppliers to meet inventory goals.
- Performs audits on our supplier partners and assures their processes are qualified and in control.
- Liaison between the supplier base and organization when sourcing components
- Maintain the suppliers' scorecard
- Provide reporting for management (PPV, Supplier OTD, etc.)
- Generate, analyze, and report key inventory metrics to maintain and exceed company goals.
- Source new suppliers and set up
- Assuring the system has up-to-date pricing, lead time, MOQ, etc.
- Monitor and expedite OSP procurement
- Analyzing the cost of supplied components to identify areas of improvement
- Order operating supplies as required
- Develop ideas and strategies to improve efficiency, add value, aid business performance, and work towards strategic improvements.
- Planning backup as needed
- Other Purchasing/planning tasks assigned by the manager.