Dover, England, United Kingdom
•Progress chasing all purchase orders to ensure Cookson manufacturing sites and third party sites do not run out of anything to cause stop of production. •Weekly co-ordinate shipments from all of Cookson sites worldwide. This involves dealing with the transport companies for deliveries and collections. •Authorised to sign own purchase orders up to the value of £5000. •I check and approve supplier invoices and am responsible of getting any credit notes in time for the accounts department to be able to pay them.
•Maintain supplier performance records and produce monthly results for the materials manager. •Liaise with suppliers, and marketing team and the designers to ensure up to date packaging is produced to the correct specification. •If artwork changes are required by the marketing department, I have to liaise with their designers and my suppliers to ensure the changes are made in the quickest and most cost efficient way. •Check all invoices for my purchased orders and authorise them for payment. •Use the in house quality system (QSI database) to raise complaints on suppliers or inter-company Cookson sites.
•Daily monitoring of stock levels using J D Edwards database for the 3 divisions of the company on site. •Raising and progress chasing all purchase orders. •Raising the orders for maintenance department for work or equipment. •Cover of the main reception when required.
•Production Planning and raising works orders for the foundry was my main role. •Processing the orders when they came in from customers and scheduling them in for production.