Program Purchasing Manager

Key responsibilities:

• The position is responsible for execution of scheduling & procurement basis of production plan, in order to ensure timely availability of Indirect parts in the plant within company guidelines and policies.
• Creating and Processing purchase requisitions for maintaining uninterrupted production activities.
• Lead and manage the RFX and RFP process (SAP)
• Negotiation with supplier with business acumen as per company policies, price finalization and coordination with central purchase.
• Material Planning and Ordering

• Supervise the work of purchasing and procurement across all department.
• Establish and maintain supplier relationship and facilitate periodic business review to continually identify the process improvement and cost reduction opportunities.
• PR processing and negotiation with supplier
• Prepare analysis and supplier category base.
• Communicate the material requirement schedules to assigned suppliers basis the requirement received from Use.
• PR processing, Zero Stock outs,  Zero Downtime, Order fulfilment

• Consolidation Centre Management

• Ensure timely receipt of aggregate Materials at Consolidation Centres
• Manage delivery of materials from Consolidation Team and the Plant Warehouse
• Report exceptions and Escalations of Supply delivery at the respective user ends
• Track & Monitor Material receipt & dispatches.    •    Zero Stock outs
• Zero Downtime, Zero Premium Shipments

• Supplier Performance Management

• Report on the Supplier performance for respective Shop level delivery
• Escalate recurring material shortage issues and analyse the cause for supplier non-performance.
• Address Supplier concerns and issues to improve performance.
• Make arrangements for supplier participation in the annual vendor meet    •    Overall Delivery Performance of Supplier base.

• Obsolescence Management

• Arrange for stocks for ECN (Engineering Change management) as per plan.
• Execution and reporting of VAVE initiatives for cost reduction.
• Report shop inventory for to-be phased out materials and the pipeline at Suppler end.
• Provide advance communication to the allotted vendors regarding discontinuation of specific material parts to be phased out.
• Update the pending material requirements and the time frame for the material obsolescence.
• Monitor obsolescent parts at Supplier as well as at TML end    •    Zero Obsolescence