Purchasing Placement Student - Supply Chain Review
by Cummins
Rating
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Skills
4.3
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Responsibilities
3.0
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Support & Guidance
3.0
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Culture
3.5
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Your Impressions
3.3
- 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
Working with suppliers, negotiating prices, also dealing with real world issues and mitigating against any issues caused by this. Supplier Relationship Management is the main responsibility within the role.
Skills
My confidence has developed significantly, regularly meeting and working with new people, leading discussions and meetings. Time management, meet strict deadlines on projects, often with little warning. Corporate understanding, develop ability to work succesfully within corporate spaces, communicating effectively, correct etiquette etc.
Responsibilities
Yes, a lot of responsibility, often taken full ownership of processes previously ran by managers in order to free up their time. Requesting new opportunities led to creation of new tasks which were completely led by my myself. Always encouraged to act on initiative or using instructions before requesting help.
Support & Guidance
We had the support of a direct line manager who was out of country so only Zoom interaction, however had supervisor at our location who we had weekly calls with however in person interaction was minimal
Culture
Ok, when people are in the office there is opportunity to connect and network, however many colleagues in purchasing work from home a large percentage of the week which meant that sometimes there wasnt much of a community in the office.
Your Impressions
Very much, the first 6-months were very rewarding, however more interaction with colleagues and more opportunities to go offsite and visit suppliers and other plants would have been more enriching than just working from home.
Yes
The process is not as daunting as it may seems and you just need to present yourself as personable and interested in the field you are applying for, they are not too concerned about prior achievements etc.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Procurement
North East
May 2024
