Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. Our client is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for the freight and transit rail sectors.
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients worldwide. Our client is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for the freight and transit rail sectors.
Position: Commodity Sourcing II (Indirect)-Contingent Worker
Location: Kansas City, MO 64132
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
- Analyze daily requirements to determine materials needs and execute purchase orders to satisfy demand schedules.
- Maintain accurate delivery information on open purchase orders through supplier acknowledgements.
- Expedite material delivery where necessary and maintain status updates on shortages for production, sales and service demand
- Continually review stocking levels for each item to provide targeted service levels.
- Communicate with Suppliers to best support the inventory plan and provide timely delivery for production needs.
- Regularly update backlog status reports and communicate with Customer Service expected delivery for customer orders.
- Review and recommend disposition of all excess and obsolete inventory.
- Perform root cause analysis of service outliers to identify and implement improvements in overall process.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Proven experience working effectively with suppliers, managing purchase orders and ensuring supplier on-time delivery to meet production requirements.
- Experience in the supplier selection process and managing supplier partnerships using performance KPI metrics.
- Ability to generate a comprehensive Supplier Request for Quotation package.
- Ability to perform accurate and thorough cost analysis comparing current total cost to new supplier quotations total cost.
- Proven supplier negotiation techniques.
- Foundational proficiency in supply chain management principles and commodity sourcing strategies.
- Ability to work with complex material flows.
- Strong understanding of ERP MRP fundamentals, including purchase order signals, purchase order reschedule signals, planning parameters and the importance of transactional accuracy and its impact on inventory control.
- Ability to interpret and work with technical specifications, drawings, and quality requirements.
- Understanding of Bill of Material framework and BOM costs.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Suit (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint) and ability to learn software quickly.
- Professional and concise verbal and written communication skills required for effective interaction with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to build effective and trusted supplier and team relationships
Required Qualifications :
- Preferred: bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering or related field and/1 to 3 years of procurement or sourcing experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Preferred: Experience in railroad, aerospace, automotive or other heavy industrial manufacturing or remanufacturing sectors.
What will your typical day look like
- Evaluate MRP to understand buy part supply/demand signals and create purchase orders.
- Establish appropriate stocking strategies and maintain buy part planning parameters.
- Manage supplier relationships to ensure purchase orders are acknowledged, PO dates are maintained and shipments are executed on-time.
- Expedite supplier parts when unexpected shortages occur or demand is short cycled. Work closely with suppliers on recovery plans.
- Manage new supplier set-up and supplier maintenance (HICX portal).
- Manage ERP Sourcing Rules and Quotation accuracy to facilitate Auto-PO, where applicable.
- Daily and effective communication with production on shortages and recovery plans.
- Manage transportation costs working to avoid premium air shipments.
- Right-size inventory by reducing excess inventory and evaluate shortages.
- Engage with Quality and Engineering to address supplier non-conforming parts.
- Assess supplier capabilities and make recommendations for supplier selection.
- Collaborate and support the Sourcing Manager in inflation/deflation goals and commodity strategy execution.
- Serve as the primary accounts payable/ receivable contact for your supply base.
- Support warehouse by ensuring healthy inventory levels are maintained to meet demand.
- Occasional buy part inventory counts, executing physical inventory adjustments in the ERP system.
- Maintain key product indicators in fulfillment, planning and inventory.
- Organized and posses a drive for continuous improvement. Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Kansas City, MO |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $28 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.