Senior materials analyst vs procurement agent

Differences between senior materials analyst and procurement agent duties and responsibilities

Senior materials analyst example responsibilities.

• Manage data gathering and processing of information to maintain and support Kanban production management systems.
• Establish procedures that manage critical factors such as moisture sensitivity, electrostatic discharge, storeroom temperature and FIFO inventory staging system.
• Develop Kanban and trigger base buying processes.
• Assist with BOM audits and initial build validation efforts.
• Serve as central interface between manufacturing, marketing and sales for logistics and any other customer service relate issues.
• Generate make/buy analysis and implement any require changes in MRP tool.
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Procurement agent example responsibilities.

• Achieve $200k cost savings buy locating excess material from OEM.
• Manage project size OEM bills of material from supplier negotiation through final invoice.
• Monitor and manage cost of components for bill of material (BOM), schedule lead times and performance with budgets.
• Prepare strategic commodity business plans for globally manage commodities, performing spend analysis, and identifying part cost drivers.
• Process purchase requisitions to POs for different commodities for MCI s end-user community.
• Perform category spend analysis of indirect spend for hotel expenses to determine hotel candidates for 2010 RFP corporate rate negotiations.
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