Raw material manager vs director of purchasing

Differences between raw material manager and director of purchasing duties and responsibilities

Raw material manager example responsibilities.

• Assist in achieving ISO certification and chair vendor audits for quality compliance.
• Lead the accelerated development of new global supply base and logistics to replace long-standing domestic suppliers.
• Manage all raw materials and conduct inventory audits, maintain compliance guidelines, and supervise MRO purchasing to balance material shortage/surplus.
• Decrease inventories using MRP system to alert order status and re-ordering materials on a timely basis.
• Machine job shop supervision of industrial wood processing tool manufacturing with extreme tolerances in a participative MRP work cell environment.
• Review shipment accuracy and logistics billings.
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Director of purchasing example responsibilities.

• Manage all aspects of the RFQ process, contracts, cost and rebate negotiations, and awarding of business.
• Manage out-bound logistics services and third-party logistics providers to expand the range of commodities need to support automobile and aerospace manufacturing.
• Develop standards and implement procedures for materials planning, product acquisition, inventory control, material distribution and logistics management.
• Implement cost controls using commodity segmentation, vendor KPI's and cost justification base on key market indicators.
• Monitor KPI indicators such as inventory turns, supplier on time delivery, inventory cycle count accuracy, and PPV.
• Develop RFP (request for proposal) analysis, negotiation strategy, contract drafting and agreement execution plans on all contracts.
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