Overall Responsibilities:

·        Maintain and manage good supplier relationships.

·        Understand the purchasing processes

o   Purchasing request

o   Purchasing order

o   Logistics

o   Payment processes

·        Source, collect quotations and prepare quotation summary to select suppliers that offered the most favorable quotations based on the criteria: reasonable price (value for money), best delivery lead time, best quality, and good service

·        Understand and assist the production engineers to assure tooling, product and production time frames are met.

·        Continuous supplier negotiations that assure product and tooling costs are controlled and justified.

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