The primary responsibilities for this position will be to manage all assigned supplier relationships to support business requirements including NPI (New Product Introduction) and Product Obsolescence requirements. This position includes responsibility for lower dollar/lower criticality items/suppliers and for collaborating with more senior members of the Purchasing team in developing relationships with those suppliers, visiting and auditing facilities to gain understanding of processes, capacity constraints, and ensuring supplier’s quality systems are in place.
Daily tactical tasks include procuring assigned items/equipment/services per ERP system that meet quality standards while controlling cost, maintaining accurate data within the ERP system with respect to Purchase Order dates, Item Master data, and Supplier data, and expediting materials as needed to minimize production down time.
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for actively participating in the qualification process of new suppliers and products, including identifying new and/or alternate sources to meet requirements as needed
• Responsible for maintaining relationships with suppliers.
• Responsible for coordinating with Supply Base Managers and/or Senior Supply Chain Management regarding the analysis of Supplier Scorecard data and resourcing activities as needed, initiating and monitoring improvement plans triggered by supplier performance data.
• Responsible for coordinating with New Product Launch Teams regarding launch activities as needed, including sourcing options, costs, etc. for new items to influence product specifications to achieve the best supplier selection, quality, cost, and lead time.
• Responsible for analyzing requirements driven through the ERP system to confirm accuracy and highlight fluctuations that warrant investigation.
• Responsible for collaborating with Senior Supply Chain Management in defining inventory plans for purchased items and project when inventory will either exceed or fall short to the plan in order to take action to resolve the issue with minimal impact to customer order fulfillment or production schedules.
• Responsible for procurement of goods, equipment, and/or services for assigned suppliers/commodities/items and expediting when needed to ensure backorders for purchased items are fulfilled as quickly as possible and production lines are not shut down due to purchased item shortages.
• Responsible for negotiating the lowest possible cost of goods and/or services while maintaining quality and service standards as well as approved inventory levels.
• Responsible for communicating orders, follow-up, forecasts, changes, and issues with supplier.
• Responsible for management of the Change Order Process for all activities related to purchasing to minimize impacts to customer order fulfillment, inventory plan attainment, and production schedules.
• Responsible for maintaining accurate Purchase Order data based upon supplier delivery confirmations.
• Responsible for maintaining accurate Supplier contact data.
• Responsible for maintaining accurate Item data, including lead times, pricing, price breaks, sourcing assignments, planning parameters, etc.
• Responsible for communicating product availability data to Sales & Marketing.
• Responsible for coordinating with QA, Engineering, and supplier to ensure timely resolution of NCRs and CAPAs, serving as the liaison between Starrett and supplier.
• Responsible for coordinating with Receiving to resolve issues with the supplier deliveries.
• Responsible for coordinating with A/P to resolve issues with the supplier invoices.
• All Other Essential Duties as directed.