Attila Kovacs

Purchasing Engineer at Melecs EWS GmbH

Győr, Győr-Moson-Sopron, Hungary

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Experience

  • Melecs EWS GmbH (8 yrs 3 mos)
    • Purchasing Engineer
      May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

    • Global Category Manager
      May 2018 - Apr 2025 · 7 yrs

      - Global commodity management for passive components. - Defining purchasing strategy and budget planning for passive components on global level - Negotiations with suppliers, annual price and terms negotiations, sourcing, defining of shares - Establishing and ensuring stable and sufficient supplier base - Market researches, benchmarking, analysis of suppliers’ strategies, capabilities - Creating supplier ranking - Signing contracts with suppliers - Finding and introducing new suppliers - Cooperation with R&D, providing strategy guidance for the most critical parts - New project BOM pricing, RFQs - On-site visits (Europe, Asia) - Escalation level to support Logistics department - Quarterly supplier evaluations and risk assessment

  • Strategic Buyer at EPCOS
    Sep 2011 - May 2018 · 6 yrs 9 mos

    - Defining purchasing strategy - Active purchasing support to product development - Finding products, manufacturers, suppliers on the market, supplier evaluation, choosing suppliers - Participating on supplier audits together with Quality colleagues - Establishing material purchasing, general technical, consignment and quality contracts - Escalation level to support Logistics department - RFQs, benchmarking, frame contracts - Supplier negotiations and visits in Hungary, in Europe and in Asia - Yearly supplier evaluations - Creating reports, simulations and analysises - Improving procurement processes - Evaluation of automotive PPAP packages together with Quality department, approving PSW, product greenlight - Tool investment - Budget planing (savings, cost plans, tool lifecycles)

  • Buyer / NPI Buyer at Sanmina
    2007 - 2011 · 4 yrs

    - Managing procurement of full range of components on 6 projects including 2 NPI ramp-ups - Receiving and evaluating RFQs from suppliers, conducting price and terms negotiations, finding new partners to the supply chain - Customer contact - Creating cost analysises on certain products - Organizing and conducting meetings with suppliers - Evaluating supplier performance - Creating reports, simulations and analysises - Daily contact with suppliers including placing POs, backlog management, forecast calculations etc. - Supervising of physical inventory control as an auditor - Participation in managing Excess&Obsolete stock - Improving procurement processes - Cooperating with the Regional and Global Supply Chain Management in case of escalations - Clearing on-hold invoice issues with suppliers and Global Finance - Organizing transports, working with forwarders individually or via Logistics Department - Verification and change of weekly PCBA production plan abroad, setting priorities