Senior Buyer for Raw Material - Sanmina
(2022-05 - 2026-01)
Senior buyer for raw material different commodities, PCB, Mechanical parts, Electronical parts, Metal, Magnets, Cables, Plastic parts, IC & Connectors. Working independently, coordinated purchasing activities and processes purchase requests in a timely manner.
- Using MRP and/or manual request, analyze demand to determine needs, send out RFQ'S for price and availability
- Monitor supplier delivery and negotiate price/volume and delivery dates
- Review MRP on a regular basis, Exception report cancelation, pull ins, Push out and planned orders as prioritized
- Identify issues and escalate as necessary to achieve company requirements and goals
- Review and ensure actions per disposition of ECO's
- Maintain inventory levels per plan and perform E&O analysis, to minimize excess and zero demand inventory
- Monitor and update commit dates on shortage reports, this keeps aligned supplier timing with the systems information
- Expedite shortages to meet manufacturing need dates, to cover the gap for each quarter and to avoid any additional freight cost
- Issue and control expedite freight authorizations, if needed keep a minimum amount to prevent a huge cost
- Work with price comparison for cost down and cost up, this helps review with different distributors and place new order at a lower price and lower MOQ (favorable PPV)
- Work to achieve quotation from vendor and maker for material setup and purchase order release
- Ensure product cost to meet company's profit
- Past due PO's update, this avoid any upcoming RDL or early shipment
- Keep supplier scorecard, used to measure and track supplier performance against pre-defined criteria
- Supplier negotiation for purchase price variation (PPV) to have a better agreement for price break
- Shipping information follow up (invoices, tracking's, carriers, brokers)
- Work with the planning department and purchasing for the critical components (Runrate top critical item)
- Share the status of the material to avoid lack of material, line affectation or customer sales
- Knowledge of supply chain functions such as demand planning and material management
- Knowledge working with MS word and excel along with Oracle, Google sheet, etc.
- Upload charges for customer approval excess quantity, NCNR item, expense, PPV or PFA in the Smartsheet (S.S)
- Work in DNS report share to supplier current commits
- Prompt receipts for the critical parts that are shortage with line affectation
- Work together with WH, incoming area to give priority to downloading and receiving material
- Hot list report this gives a sense of urgency to the importation of material to our plant
- HTS codes, have all the information on the code to avoid delays in deliveries
- Present one KAIZEN per year part of purchasing metrics
Buyer for Raw Material - Ametek Aerospace and Defense
(2021-12 - 2022-05)
Buyer for raw material different commodities. Ensure material arrival to accomplish companies' goals, with low price and with accurate lead times.
- Reduce mitigation and cost avoidance that can devalue the goal of the purchasing department
- Follow up with WH material receipt into Oracle system
- Follow up with quality department material inspection
- Ensure delivery of new products is to the appropriate quality level and in accordance with the program schedule
- Ensure the finance department invoices payment to avoid any count in hold
- Create approval sheet for control for tooling cost down, etc.
- Issue and control expedite freight authorizations
- Work with price comparison for cost down and cost up
- Work to achieve quotation from vendor and maker for material setup and purchase order release
- Ensure product cost to meet company's profit
Advance Purchasing Specialist - Panasonic Industrial Devices de Tamaulipas
(2020-06 - 2021-12)
Ensure successful launch of new projects – products with high quality standards and customer satisfaction (Toyota and Nissan). Assure arrival of raw materials on time and avoid any issues with the start of production of new programs.
- Supplier negotiation for purchase price variation (PPV) to have a better agreement for price break
- Mitigation for cost avoidance analysis report
- Participate in meetings and review with the design section and engineering section for new project-products
- Participate in initial supplier status meeting with customers to review the new project-product
- Follow up with the engineering section for the release on time of drawings and bill of materials (BOM's)
- Release new part number to import-export section (Vastera)
- Ensure transfer-upgrade for new program on time to purchasing production
- Create and monitor an open item list to follow up the activities for every department and ensure closure on time
- Issue PO for raw material on early stage to ensure material availability for line-equipment validation and customer events
- Create and submit a ticket template for material setup for product approval
- Follow up with couriers/brokers shipment delivery/delays (BOS, clearance event, missing packages, receipt and revisions, etc.)
- Follow up with WH material receipt into SAP system
- Follow up with quality department material inspection
- Ensure delivery of new products is to the appropriate quality level and in accordance to the program schedule
- Ensure the finance department invoices payment to avoid any count in hold
- Create approval sheet for control for tooling cost down, etc.
- Issue and control expedite freight authorizations
- Work with price comparison for cost down and cost up
- Work to achieve quotation from vendor and maker for material setup and purchase order release
- Ensure product cost to meet company's profit
- Work and improve PPAP submission on time
- Support new buyer for purchasing activities procedures
- KAIZEN, improved scrap reduction for the truck opener line
Purchasing Production Specialist (Raw Material) - Panasonic Industrial Devices de Tamaulipas
(2017-02 - 2020-06)
Ensure customer satisfaction and quality of products for raw materials.
- Past due PO's update
- PO released indirect/direct for events and mass production (ME21N & ME59N)
- SAP reports update (MRP daily me2a, me2l & ZPTP_PO_DOCS - Report PO docs (supplier PO confirmation into SAP/KPIS report update)
- Supplier PO reschedule in and out, analysis for PO cancellation, etc.
- Follow up with WH material receipt into SAP system
- Follow up with quality department material inspection
- Work with special adoption requests if needed for material with negative or quality issues condition
- Work with inventory adjustment slip if needed for material issues condition
- Participate in customer satisfaction questionnaire for vendor staff performance
- Work to improve the ability to meet customer demand
- Procure and promote effort to support customer requests and satisfied sales goals
- Shipping information follow up (invoices, tracking's, carriers, brokers)
- Create STO (stock transfer order) for Panasonic Company's
