Some acclimation necessary, but overall good place to work - Purchasing Cooper Standard Employee Review

The plant is union, so it often felt as though there was little recourse for unmotivated hourly employees. This can often leave many salary employees forced to pickup the slack on duties that should be performed by hourly workers, making it difficult to focus on the tasks you were hired to perform. For example, you could spend hours material handling or wrapping skids where you should have been building new reporting methodologies. The systems are archaic at best, making it difficult to extract accurate information for analysis. BOMs are not always reliable, and inventory must be counted constantly (daily to weekly) to know what is on hand. I will say though, that initiatives were in progress when I left to improve this situation and there was beginning to be noticeable improvements on system accuracy, though it still relied heavily on daily/weekly counting of inventory levels to keep the system up to date. This is where acclimation will be required as it may come as a culture shock to those used to more robust systems and processes. There is no bar code scanning for incoming materials - only outbound. Trying to improve processes can receive pushback from employees who are accustomed to handling things the way they were always done. Some departments are permitted hybrid schedules where they work from home 3 days a week and in the office only 2, while other departments who could easily perform their duties on a hybrid schedule are never permitted to work from home. In this day and age, that is a very big con, especially when it can be perceived as unequitable. Even with these cons, I enjoyed my job and the people I worked with and felt is was overall a good place to work. Every job / company is going to have a list of cons. This is just to give you a feel of what you can expect.