Job Summary : A Purchase Engineer in electrical control panel manufacturing is responsible for procuring the necessary materials and components for panel production, ensuring quality, cost-effectiveness, and timely delivery. This role involves vendor management, price negotiation, and maintaining accurate procurement records.
Key Responsibilities :
- Planning and budgeting of purchase functions, involving cost estimation, contract negotiations.
- Check material stock given by stores and Plan Material Purchase accordingly.
- Identifying cost competitive sources for required materials with essential quality standards.
- Send Enquirers to suppliers for Approved Indent/BOM
- Get Alternative Quotations for current Material.
- Negotiate discount and Credit Period for all Purchases
- Negotiating with vendors to reduce procurement costs without compromising on quality or delivery schedules
- Comparing and evaluating offers from suppliers.
- Prepare PO as per approved quote or get it done by assistant, verify the PO.
- Get PO approved by HOD and sent it to vendor. (1st approval technical, 2nd sales, 3rd HOD)
- Managing the entire procurement process, including creating purchase orders, tracking orders, and ensuring timely delivery.
- Give Scheduled for material delivery Order Expeditor.
- Follow-up with Suppliers for material delivery on time.
- Ensure no Material arrive to Company Gate without PO
- Tracking of Goods receipt of material.
- Inspection of raw materials as per purchase quality and quantity.
Ensuring that all purchased materials meet the required quality standards and specifications. Follow up with Quality department for checking.
- If any rejection material came then proceed for replacement, and initiate communication with vendor if received material is not as per specification.
- Ensure Vendor is intimated in advance for any Rejected material being sent back. Take receipt in written.
- TDG Material procurement, and ensure delivery on time.
- Packing and Transport coordination.
- Continuously develop new vendors for existing Materials to ensure healthy competition between suppliers.
- Ensure no Material Purchased at higher price from Vendor.
- All requests for price increase have to be brought to HODʼs notice immediately.
- All requests for price increase have to be sanctioned by HOD's.
- Developing sourcing strategies for key components
- Liaison with the production department to maintain optimum inventory.
- Implementing systems to avoid situations like over-stocking or out-of-stock which cause production and financial losses.
- Repeat order Poʼs to be released within 24 hours of indent approval.
- Quotations for one to time purchases to be procured within 48 hours of request.
- Resolve supply, quality, service and invoicing issues with vendors.
- Arranging dispatches for various destinations.