Job Description
- Communicates and negotiates with suppliers and vendors to land more profitable deals
- Find new suppliers to fulfil the demand of customers based on the companies’ strategy and requirements
- Monitors the performance of suppliers, assessing their ability to meet quality and delivery requirements
- Identifies and qualifies new suppliers in collaboration with other departments.
- Coordinates and oversees to ensure timely and orderly material and production flow transitions.
- Forecast demand or create supply plans that ensure availability of materials or products.
- Collaborates with other departments and to identify and maintain resources needed to establish and provide an effective supply process
- Establishes performance metrics for measurement, comparison, or evaluation of factors affecting the supply process
- Maintains required quantity of supplies and materials to optimize production.
- Analyzes current inventories and procedures; suggests improvements to increase efficiency of supply process
- Forecast material costs or develop standard cost lists.
- Estimate cost or material requirements.
- Implement new or improved supply chain processes to improve efficiency or performance.
- Develop procedures for coordination of supply chain management with other functional areas, such as sales, marketing, finance, production, or quality assurance
