Drive high impact / strategic procurement initiatives with the goal of driving substantial value realization efforts in all forms revenue generation, cost reductions and productivity improvements while maintaining or improving product quality and supplier service levels.

More Uses of the Cost Reduction Strategies Toolkit:

  • Arrange that your organization designs and implements supply chains that support business strategies adapted to changing market conditions, new business opportunities, or Cost Reduction Strategies.
  • Visit supplier facilities and accurately assess technical capability in the awarding process, equipment, and capacity for rapid deployment of new product development and long term production.
  • Be accountable for achieving financial objectives by working with management to prepare the materials budget, scheduled expenditures, analyze variances, and initiate corrective actions with suppliers.
  • Confirm you undertake; lead appropriate supplier monitoring, corrective actions, and escalation where needed to ensure Purchasing milestones of the New Program Launch process are met on time.
  • Assure your organization develops and implements effective manufacturing processes by studying product requirements, researching, designing, modifying, and testing manufacturing methods and equipment.
  • Negotiate long term contracts for supplier pricing, service and supply assurance agreement to support organization strategic planning and cost goals for all new programs.
  • Support the sourcing IT infrastructure team in strategy implementation, procurement initiatives, rfp activities, agreement negotiations, vendor and strategy management.
  • Formulate citrix wide value lever strategies that drive identified business strategies and objectives, achieve value delivery and to provide commercial and functional leadership for assigned projects.
  • Ensure you relay; lead cross business teams in the creation of annual supply chain planning to achieve total cost of ownership savings through improvements to Policy, Price, Process, Service Levels, and Supplier management.
  • Remain current with market trends through relationships with suppliers and market experts; identify and communicate new technologies and solutions to key problems in the assigned spend areas.
  • Ensure your organization evaluates and recommends plant layout changes and modifications to enhance space utilization, material flow, employee safety, and throughput, product consistency and inventory reductions.
  • Manage supply chain relationships with internal and external customers by monitoring, trending, analyzing and aligning key performance indicators through supply chain dashboard metrics.
  • Make sure that your organization develops short and long term manufacturing strategies, capital requirements, and actively participates in the development and introduction of new products, safety updates, process flows and Cost Reduction Strategies.
  • Be accountable for plant manufacturing operations in accordance with process and product specifications and quality standards, complying with contractual and/or customer requirements.
  • Lead the coordination of engineering changes, product line extensions, or new product launches to ensure orderly and timely transitions in material or production flow.
  • Manage: administrative support for purchasing projects and supplier management (supplier metrics and research, master data, market basket analysis, pricing analysis, monthly/quarterly reporting of kpis, savings reporting).
  • Manage: work closely with key stakeholders to develop effective category strategies that enable step change improvements in quality, service, innovation and sustainable annual cost reductions and value creation.
  • Confirm you shape; lead investigations related to contamination and procedural or analytical deviations or errors in the laboratory and ensure corrective actions are developed and implemented.
  • Support guided buying team in operationalizing negotiated contracts and agreements, working with vendors and procurement resources to set up catalogs and other IT solutions to increase efficiency and compliance.
  • Establish standards, develop goals and maintain order for Plant Production, Quality, Delivery, Safety, Environment and everything related to the satisfaction of the internal and external customers.
  • Confirm your organization oversees the development of product specifications and supplier alignment through the product lifecycle to ensure customer needs are met through new item development.
  • Ensure your organization evaluates and monitors labor and cost requirements comparing to budgets and performs variance analysis and reporting forecasts project and program progress trends and estimates at complete for time and cost.
  • Prioritization and planning identification of business requirements and cross organizational knowledge to prioritize, enhance collaboration and leverage the highest value opportunities in order of priority.
  • Pilot: relationship management collaborating with internal business partners and suppliers; the segmentation, communication, engagement, business review planning, problem resolution, and general ongoing relationship management efforts for assigned projects.
  • Identify Cost Reduction Strategies in schedule, quantities or contract specifications that align with project budget and design specification requirements.

 

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