Alexandra Maria Azevedo Porém

- Tools & Processes - Bids and Purchase Order Approvals - Target setting and monitoring - Initiative monitoring (Total Cost of Ownership / Low Cost Country Sourcing / Supplier Management ) - Strategic Sourcing (Long Term Supply Agreements / Frame Agreements / Claims / Dispute Resolution) - Request for Quotation, Supplier Selection - Divisonal Project and Bill of materials review - Material Cost Reduction - Supplier Performance management and approach - Quartely Business Reviews

- Participation in specifications & requirements development - Implementation & management of value analysis activities - Procurement activities - Suppliers negotiation - Contracts management - Supplier performance analysis - Evaluation & performance control of dep. under responsibility - Management of "Personal Training" activities - application & development of several corporate management tools - Savings Pipeline, Total at completoion cost, Code 30+, Key performance indicators

- Suppliers performance analysis - Counselling, planning, targets definition, scheduling & priorities definition - Suppliers negotiation - Evaluation,analysis & couselling in continuous improvement & cost reduction methods - Purchase orders management & short term planning - Project monthly reviews - analysis & evaluation of stock levels, minimum stock level definition & "JIT" delivery schedules

- Suppliers appraisal, selection & qualification (home & foreign markets - Bid analysis (materials,systems & services), contract negotiations, contracts preparation & follow-up - warehouse location - definition & implementation of stock management system (identification & control of stock, inventories cost monitoring, control of obsolete stocks) - materials logistics & distribution to site - statistics data working up within EU trading

- Business revenues control, expenditure & prices list - Market access technical & administrative conditions - support to markets management, purchase orders follow-up and after sales assistance - Class A accounts expectations procurement & analysis, competitors information, recollection & evaluation - Control of lead times, payment & credit plafond - organization & support to exhibitions & seminars - Documentation, publicity & promotion - invoicing charts preparation & orders backlog

- Stock management (stock level control, deviation analysis, audits) - Production planning & control ( MRP based preparation of production materials requirements lists / evaluation of deviations to planning, deviation causes analysis, corrective actions, planning reviewing)