Oversee Purchasing and Inventory: Manage the procurement of goods based on company requirements. Maintain accurate inventory records and ensure timely delivery of goods. Supplier Relationship Management: Build and maintain relationships with key suppliers. Ensure compliance with terms of contracts and quality standards. Coordination with Other Departments: Work closely with sales, production, and finance teams to forecast demand. Create supply plans that ensure product availability. Risk Management: Assess and manage risks to supply chain operations. Implement solutions to mitigate potential disruptions. Technology and Systems Implementation: Introduce new technologies or systems to streamline supply chain processes. Ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and ethical standards. Determining the required materials and possibly generating purchase orders, ensuring materials meet specifications, quality standards, and are cost-efficient. Schedule the supply of materials/components to meet production requirements and minimum safety stock levels. Develop, implement, and evaluate processes for material delivery from supplier Just in time. Assess volume requirements against planning assumptions. Day-to-day order management and management of deliveries. Understand and manage risks to minimize impact on production schedule. Manage and develop relationships with suppliers to ensure cost-effectiveness, availability, and reliable and flexible performance. Supplier negotiations for contracts, pricing, and terms to secure favourable agreements with suppliers. Conduct thorough market analysis to identify trends, opportunities, and risks for electro-mechanical category. Drive continuous improvement initiatives in sourcing, procurement and supplier performance process. Work with suppliers to understand and communicate drawing and BOM interpretations to eliminate receiving non-conforming products Manage and evaluate supplier performance to assure that procurement meets cost, quality and 100% on time delivery Understand and communicate quality requirements to the supplier to ensure compliance to these requirements Review purchase orders for accuracy to specifications, drawings and current revision level Assist accounting on invoice discrepancies to insure timely payment to the suppliers Communicate and work with support organizations to ensure all requirements, such as certifications, test reports and miscellaneous documentation, are incorporated into the purchase order. Identify areas of improvement of purchasing methods, cost effective purchasing, and identify daily PO releases having savings opportunities and economies of order placement Have strong knowledge in Commercial terms and conditions and negotiation skills and experience. Should be able to handle indirect material & Service procurement.
Job Title
Supply Chain Manager