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Commodity Sourcing II

TekWissen LLC

Kansas City, MO

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JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$30–$35
SKILLS
Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Aerospace and Defense, Bill of Materials (BOM), Business Administration, Commodity Management, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis, Continuous Improvement, Cost Analysis, Cost Control, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), Industrial Engineering, Interpersonal Skills, Inventory Levels, Inventory Management, Inventory Planning, Leadership, Manufacturing, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Product Family, Microsoft Word, Multitasking, Negotiation Skills, Organizational Skills, Performance Metrics, Physical Inventory, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Process Improvement, Procurement Planning, Purchase Orders, Purchasing/Procurement, Quality Engineering, Rail Cargo, Request for Proposals (RFP), Right-Sizing, Sourcing Strategy, Strategic Planning, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Supply Chain Management, Technical Drawing, Time Management, Vendor/Supplier Evaluation, Vendor/Supplier Management, Vendor/Supplier Planning, Vendor/Supplier Relations, Vendor/Supplier Selection, Warehousing, Workforce Management, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Kansas City, MO
POSTED
3 days ago
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.

Position: Commodity Sourcing II
Duration: 06 months
Location: Kansas City, MO 64132
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: On-site
Shift: 07:00 AM - 04:00 PM

Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering or related field and/or least 5 years of procurement or sourcing experience in a manufacturing environment.
Preferred:
  • Experience in railroad, aerospace, automotive or other heavy industrial manufacturing or remanufacturing sectors.
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.
  • Organized and posses a drive for continuous improvement.
  • Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines.
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.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About the Company

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TekWissen LLC

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.



COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2009
WEBSITE
http://www.tekwissen.com/

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