Purchasing Agent Career Research and Resources

Riverside Auto Auction

Manufacturing & Production - Purchasing Agent - Riverside , CA

• Daily inventory control of raw materials (sand paper, paint, clear coat, masking tape etc). • Place an order for body shop raw materials • Run daily reports on AS400 to forecast how many cars need parts. • Print work order for each car and review and analyze the parts it needed. • Check cars physically to avoid order wrong auto parts. • Call dealers to order parts or use Dcnet and Ultra mate system to shop on line fo...

Avg. Salary: $27,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Telco Foods products

Manufacturing & Production - Purchasing Agent - Colton, CA

• Retrieve work proposals from Maintenance manager. • Underline all parts involved and order from vendors, targeting best price possible without jeopardize quality. • Assure the prompt procurement of critical parts to avoid shutdown of production lines. • Retrieve maintenance personnel daily reports, translated from Spanish to English and enter into “Machinery preventive maintenance History” spread sheet. • Receive a...

Avg. Salary: $27,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Los Angeles Times

Manufacturing & Production - Purchasing Agent - Riverside, CA

 In charge of a newspaper collection route of commercial accounts. Prepared daily logs via portable computer.

Avg. Salary: $27,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

DUPONT / INVISTA

Manufacturing & Production - Purchasing Agent - Seaford, DE

Spent last 6 1/2 -7 years as a MRP Controller using SAP. Managed, invetoried and ordered all the packaging materials for the plant. Also managed the materials in SAP which were produced in the staple area. There were also a couple raw materials used for this production that I managed, ordeed an inventoried. There were various other jobs I preformed while being employed there.Shift work jobs included 1 year as a lab tech bef...

Avg. Salary: $26   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

M. S. International

Manufacturing & Production - Purchasing Agent - Orange, CA

Project budget, planning, procurement, testing, pilot run, installations, implementation and going live. Achievements: Completed four projects on automated inventories and asset tracking system, automated data collection and real time location system using RFID, at company’s warehouses in Orange, Phoenix, and Edison and in Chicago. (AIDC & RTLS). Company will save 1.2 million by the way of savings in inventory shrinkage, di...

Avg. Salary: $45,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

GBS Inc.

Manufacturing & Production - Purchasing Agent - Anaheim, CA

Purchasing and expediting, managing JIT, supervise daily order pull, shipping and receiving, inventory, cycle count and regular stock check. Procurement & Warehouse Manager Achievements: Introduce JIT, Cycle count, minimized inventory shrinkages, timely procurement and reductions in lead time. Annual inventory losses ware reduced from 8 % to 2.3 %.

Avg. Salary: $45,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited

Manufacturing & Production - Purchasing Agent - Vadodara, India, Outside United States

Indian Petrochemicals Industries, India is huge Public Sector company. I was as Purchase and Materials Manager looking after procurement of raw materials, chemicals, catalyst, capital goods, spare parts procurement for plant maintainance.

Avg. Salary: $45,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Black Box Resale Services/ Norstan Communications

Manufacturing & Production - Purchasing Agent - Brooklyn Park, MN

Responsible for all areas of sourcing,negotiating,puchasing,inventory control,as well as expediting sales orders. Supported a sales staff of 50. Responsible for Nortel Networks product line- 56% of our company business.

Avg. Salary: $45,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Caterpillar, Inc

Manufacturing & Production - Purchasing Agent - Brooklyn Park, MN

Represented Procurement on new product introduction teams with responsibility for cost, delivery of parts, CPPD and sourcing. Commodity responsibilities for inter-company purchases of engines, gearboxes, hydraulic hose assemblies and distribution commodities.

Avg. Salary: $94,000   ·    Company Rank: Not Available

Procurement Services Associates

Manufacturing & Production - Purchasing Agent - Sacramento, CA

Open new office in Sacramento and manage day to day operations. Contact potential clients and identify qualified candidates for each. Assist in developing marketing materials and website content. Potential candidate screening, reference checks and employment assistance with clients and candidates.

Avg. Salary: $45,000   ·    Company Rank: 4.0 out of 5