Purchasing Agent Career Research and Resources
Solar Turbines
• Negotiated and awarded long-term contracts, prepared purchase orders, collaborated with purchasing locations, and met with suppliers to obtain accurate product information. • Developed new supply sources and evaluated market conditions to successfully achieve purchasing goals. • Collaborated with customers and suppliers to resolve any challenges and implement cost reductions. • Monitored on-time supplier delivery perfor...
Avg. Salary: $57,500 · Company Rank: Not Available
Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma
• Optimized purchase of goods and services by negotiating prices with suppliers; ensured all quality, reliability, and delivery requirements were met with each purchase opportunity. • Analyzed quotes, selected vendors, negotiated specifications, and monitored supplier performance. • Performed competitive analysis of all potential suppliers and monitored market conditions for changes. • Maintained healthy relationships wit...
Avg. Salary: $57,500 · Company Rank: Not Available
A.M. Haire Manufacturing and Service Corp.
I was a employee that punched the clock at 7:30 am and did not know from one day to the next what my job would be. I was an hourly employee working for 11.00 per hour. I worked for every Supervisor in the plant. I filled in for vacation employees/absentees/and people who quit the job. I had no specific job responsibilities except to fill in the void on the production line. I was their everyday on time. The advantage of this...
Avg. Salary: $53,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
A.M. Haire Manufacturing and Service Corp.
Bonnie Sturkie was my Supervisor/Jim Helms was the Purchasing Manager whom was Bonnie's Manager/Todd Murphy was the Operations Manager. I started with a desk in a gloomy area. No parts had descriptions or part numbers. Everything was set up and Bonnie knew where it was located. I started following her everywhere she went to get parts for production. I purchased maintenance supplies/product to service vehicles/drill bits/saw...
Avg. Salary: $53,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
A.M. Haire
I learned from being a Floater which was my first job at Haire every position in the company and how they all was suppose to tie end together to get a finished product. However, their were production stalls (Bottle Necks) everywhere for either lack of training, material shortages, or added work loads to a department because of different needs demanded by the customer. I reported directly to the President and Operations Mana...
Avg. Salary: $53,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
A.M. Haire
Created a Customer Vendor base for trucks on the production line with contact person availability. Evaluated Vehicle Production Status and compared with Customer promised delivery dates. These dates never were compatible or close to promise dates. This taught me to get a early jump on contacting customers and getting them ready for a date that was beyond the promised shipment dates. Customer Service became my major focus be...
Avg. Salary: $53,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
A.M. Haire
Jim Helms was my boss and the Purchasing Manager. He had worked for Morgan Truck Body for 15 years.He was a great leader. Jim reported to Darrell Haire/Owner and President of the Company. Jim took care of "A and B". I had a breakdown of commodities we consider to be A,B,C,and D, A and B are the high end commodities and C and D are the less expensive commmodities. C and D have an average Cost Budget of 3 million. A and D ar...
Avg. Salary: $53,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
A.M. Haire
I had to first concentrate on the A and B commodities.These commodities dealt with high volumes of Aluminum/galvanize/stainless steel/galvaneel/roll form processing/ all types of steel channel, angles and extruded aluminum parts with very close tolerances. Learn their usages/Vendor information/payment terms and buying patterns according to production usages. Managing 10 to 12 Team members.I reported to the owner of the Co...
Avg. Salary: $53,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
RAINBIRD
o Manage a total of 12,500 purchased parts. Suppliers: USA & ASIA o Responsible of implementing VMI program with suppliers (USA and local). o Cost Reduction Projects (Raw material) Coordinator
Avg. Salary: $60,000,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
THE CHAMBERLAIN GROUP
o Leader of the buyers/planners group (2 supervisors and 19 planner/buyers) o Responsible for all purchase parts giving support to Manufacturing Operations at Nogales facility. o Control and planning raw material inventory levels to an optimum level to meet the business objectives (20k active parts, $48M RIP) o Negotiations global agreements with strategic and tactical suppliers (USA, .Europe, and Asia) o Vendor Managemen...
Avg. Salary: $60,000,000 · Company Rank: Not Available
