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US
Company size
11-50 employees
Job sector
Business Management & Administration
occupation category
Purchasing Managers
Job type
Contract
Work environment
In person
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- Identifies the needs of external customers and their impact on internal customers and suppliers
- Possesses and applies basic knowledge of supply chain activities, including transformation of natural resources, raw materials, and components into a finished product that is delivered to the end customer
- Finds the best operating level (BOL), the level of capacity a process was designed for
- Uses cost accounting systems to keep track of all costs of building products, labor, material, overhead, and variances. These systems include activity- based costing (ABC) and cost analysis and control
- Applies trade-off analysis to balance requirements of demand and supply
- Employs the technique of break-even analysis, which finds the break-even point, the volume at which revenues exceed total costs
- Utilizes Enterprise Resource Planning and supply chain management (SCM) system technologies to extract and analyze large sets of data including market data and internal historical procurement data to make procurement recommendations based on that data
- Monitors and adjusts department activities to meet plans
- Determines departmental inventory management strategies and objectives
- Calculates key inventory performance metrics such as turnover ratios, cost-benefit trade-offs, days of inventory on hand, labor productivity, and inventory valuation
- Places and expedites orders
- Applies theory and practice of marketing, finance, operations, accounting, and MIS to procurement function
- Recognizes the ways that supply chains link value chains
- Sets up an effective inventory control department
- Uses techniques involved in lean and Just-in-Time (JIT) management and understands the basic principles of sustainability, including reverse logistics, reworking product lines and cutting operational energy costs
- Prepares purchase orders and distribution procedures
- Deploys competitive, collaborative and creative approaches to negotiations
- Understands and executes manufacturing planning, master production scheduling, product definition, inventory control, materials requirements planning, capacity requirements planning shop floor control, warehousing, transportation, and purchasing business functions
- Purchases products competitively
- Identifies new technologies and tools to improve procurement capabilities
- Develops people resources and information tools for productivity optimization
- Develops purchasing strategies that are congruent with organizational goals and strategies
- Determines the elements of inventory decision costs such as fixed, variable, direct, overhead, and costs
- Creates service schedules that maintain capacity levels to meet anticipated demand
- Communicates department’s needs to top management and the rest of the organization
- Resolves day-to-day business process issues with suppliers, support staff, and clients
- Defines the five functions of inventory: cycle inventory, safety inventory, anticipation inventory, transportation inventory, and hedge inventory
- Determines the success or failure rate of a business using financial accounting, incorporating terms and techniques including income, expense, cost of goods sold, gross margin, balance sheet, return on assets, inventory turns, capital asset management, and cash management
- Calculates and applies the various costing and valuation methods to inventory management
- Establishes specifications in terms of optimal quantity to purchase, quality required, and the cost impact on budget
- Advises and assists the business in developing category strategies, negotiation plans, and pricing models
- Achieves business objectives for supplier negotiations
- Applies knowledge of ISO 9000, TQM and supply chain management quality standards if applicable
- Implements improvement methods, such as business process re-engineering, Total Quality Management (TQM), Six Sigma, lean manufacturing, and Theory of Constraints
- Identifies and eliminates causes of quality below specifications, process variation and non-value-adding activities
- Holds gains in process improvements by establishing key performance measurements, benchmarking metrics and continuous process improvement initiatives to improve process quality on a continual basis
- Establishes a work environment that enhances departments members motivation and productivity
- Understands the difference between independent and dependent demand inventory
- Develops and implements supplier qualification and selection processes and procedures
- Converts and communicates demand requirements for products and services into detailed plans and schedules for inventory acquisition
- Participates in new product/service development and coordinates purchasing department’s role with that of the organization
- Understands the systematic approach to closing of process or system performance gaps through streamlining and cycle time reduction
- Selects suppliers according to the type of product, quality provided by the supplier, and the possibility of partnership
- Initiates process improvements that are enabled and supported by technology
- Performs periodic evaluations to maintain processes by gathering pertinent information such as problem symptoms from knowledgeable sources and carrying these through to the problems, potential causes and root causes of the problem
- Plans materials, budget and coordinates, organizes and assigns departmental work
- Understands the different classes of inventory (raw materials, WIP, finished goods, MRO, service parts, damaged, and obsolete)
- Plans and leads negotiations involving clients, technical support staff and suppliers
- Maintains company processes that afford optimum operation and enhance the company’s quality management system
- Provides an uninterrupted flow of materials and services
- Calculates inventory carrying costs
- Demonstrate the ability to visualize the total process and aids in locating problem areas using process mapping, quality improvement and visualization tools to locate, quantify and correct root causes of problems
- Monitors supplier performance with a system that monitors, measures, and provides feedback on supplier performance
- Develops detailed negotiation plans complete with strategies, tactics, alternative courses of action, and a BATNA (Best Alternative to Negotiated Agreement)
- Manages purchasing cycle, including generating requisitions, PO creation, PO follow up, goods reception, and final payment
- Keeps inventory investment to a minimum
- Interacts with suppliers to improve quality, price, delivery and service
- Defines areas of agreement and disagreement to develop alternative and reach mutual outcomes supported by purchaser and supplier
- Identifies and understands the need fulfillment
- Applies basic negotiation principles, planning, satisfy needs over wants, set stretch goals and concedes in accordance with purchasing strategy
- Negotiates contracts that include costs, warranties, delivery, handling, and penalties for late delivering or cost overruns
