Qu'est-ce qu'un achat, le montant de l'achat

I- What is purchasing, the scope of purchasing

Role of the purchasing manager:

- Lead, manage & develop a team of procurement / purchasing professionals. Difference between purchasing and procurement: procurement = approvisionnement (call supplier, make list of things to buy, orders,...) and purchasing = achat (negotiation, developing new sourcing,…). Purchasing = buying

- Create and manage plans and policies to contribute to the delivery of group objectives.

- Develop global sourcing strategies and frameworks for procurement activities

- integrate purchasing into the company’s strategy initiatives

- Create and implement purchasing Key Performance Indicators (KPI)and hol suppliers responsible to quality, price, delivery and other key metrics

- deliver sourcing projects and manage key suppliers, ensuring that all contracts and suppliers are managed appropriately according to best practice and in a cost effective names

- Identify and evaluates potential suppliers and negotiate and develop relations with them.

- Develop appropriate supplier relationship in alignment with the strategies including effective management & monitoring of supplier contracts

- Analyse, develop and where relevant, rationalise supply base, ensuring value, stability, performance and market competitiveness

- Support and drive cost reduction strategies through a combination of price reduction, volume and demand management techniques

- set budget standard prices and follow up on purchase price variances

- deliver financial target through cost optimisation

- Propose innovations and new product development from suppliers to the business and be a key partner to R&D

- proactively build and maintain effective senior stakeholder relationships across the business and with resourcing International procurement teams

- Report to Senior Management on the status of the procurement process, supply chain and inventory as well as changes to market conditions, suppliers or global corporate needs

- Bring market awareness and commercial intelligence to Business strategies

- Develop proposals to ensure that risk management process as applied

Skills, Knowledge required:

- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills

- Proven record of negotiating skills

- Experience of collaborating widely with business stakeholders and suppliers at all levels

- Flexibility “think out of the box”

- Ability to handle multiple assignments at once and switch between different levels of management and different points in the lifecycle and still deliver consistent quality of work and advice

- Excellent verbal and written skills in both mother language and English, other languages are a plus

- Cross-cultural work

- Travel internationally up to 30% of the time

What is purchasing?

Purchasing is the process of acquiring raw materials, goods and services for conversion, consumption or resale.

To buy the right materials of the right quality, in the right quantity from the right source delivered to the right place at the right time and at the right price.

The scope of purchasing

To supply an organisation / company with a flow of materials and services to meet its needs.

To ensure continuity of supply by maintaining effective relationships with existing sources and by developing other sources of supply either as alternatives or to meet emerging or planned needs.

To buy efficiently and wisely, obtaining by ethical means the best value for every (euro, dollar, pound,…) spent.

To maintain co-operative relationships with other departments, providing information and advice as necessary to ensure the effective operation of the organisation as a whole

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