Abstract

Tim and Fred discuss the role of procurement engineers and the supply chain management team generally in helping to ensure a good match between what product designers need and what suppliers can provide.

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Join Tim and Fred as they discuss how procurement engineers can help improve reliability by working with product designers and suppliers to achieve higher performance at the optimum cost.

Topics include:

• What is procurement engineering?
• When should you work with a supplier to improve their capabilities instead of changing to a different supplier?
• The trade-offs between improving process capability and loosening specifications.

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SOR 093 What Does a Procurement Engineer Really Do?Tim Rodgers

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