What are the responsibilities and job description for the Purchasing/International Shipments position at JDS Technologies, Inc.?
Description
Responsible for establishing a procurement program, that promotes customer satisfaction and that positively impacts the financial performance of JDS Technologies, Inc. Oversee the buying of products for use or resell. Evaluate suppliers; negotiate contracts, reviewing product quality
Requirements
- Support concurrent engineering efforts by participating in development projects representing procurement.
- Develop, implement and document procedures for purchasing control. Evaluation, selection and re-verification of suppliers and establish supplier quality requirements,
- Establish and implement metrics (process capability, control charts, measurement quality) for monitoring purchasing process.
- Establish purchasing and analysis systems of statistical data to predict trends that will affect improvement of product purchased and cost savings.
- Monitor vendor performance and establish criteria and rating system for critical vendors.
- Complete purchase orders, contracts and change requests and ensure that the necessary criteria and provisions are included in purchasing documents.
- Interact with vendors to identify opportunities to improve cost, quality and establish feedback with manufacturing and development personnel.
- Report to management on purchasing issues, trends and costs.
- Review and submit vendor purchase orders
- Participate in internal and external audits.
All other reasonable duties, as assigned