NPI Purchasing Placement Student Review
by Cummins
Rating
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Skills
4.8
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
4.5
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Culture
3.8
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Your Impressions
4.3
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at Cummins
- 7. Would you recommend Cummins to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Cummins
Overview
I am involved in regularly communicating with suppliers with regards to purchasing parts. Preparing OTD reports. Looking at opportunities for cost reduction. Feeding back lead times to internal stakeholders.
Skills
Communication - Being concise with emails, especially when communicating to global suppliers and feeding back updates to internal stakholders. Teamwork - Working in a part of a bigger team and understanding my tasks to feed into a wider project. Time management - Understanding deadlines and when the completion of certain tasks needs to be fulfilled in order to meet deadlines
Responsibilities
Yes, gradually given more responsibility throughout my placement based on what I was capable of.
Support & Guidance
Lots of guidance from a variety of people, both those I work with as well as a mentor who I was assigned to me at the start of my placement.
Culture
Welcoming atmosphere with friendly approachable people. Primarily an engineering company so Engineering placement students were given more networking opportunities than other placement students.
Your Impressions
I enjoyed my placement and feel as though I have learned a variety of both hard and soft skills. The placement has prepared me for life after university and I feel as though I have gained an insight into potential roles that I hadn't previously considered.
Yes
Make sure you read up on the role description and reach out to past Cummins placement student in order to understand what a placement entails. Go out of you comfort zone and make sure you undertake every opportunity in order to get the most out of the placement.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Purchasing and Supply
Yorkshire and Humberside
August 2023
