Overview: Responsible for managing a set of commodities to meet business objectives using Word Class supply chain management principles and practices. These business objectives include optimizing inventory, customer & supplier on-time delivery performance, material quality, material productivity and customer satisfaction. Responsibilities:
**Main Responsibilities**:
1. Exemplifies and promotes the ethical conduct of the purchasing function in all relationships with in-plant personnel and outside vendor contacts. Maintains compliance with corporate policies, domestic and international trading laws, and other established legal and procedural guidelines.
2. Analyzes, evaluates and schedule material availability to meet customer demand. Identifies value enhancement and cost savings opportunities to plant processes and purchased materials. Recommend actions required to insure operational effectiveness.
3. Selects and implements optimal lean manufacturing supply chain solutions including using the best possible tools, such as E-commerce, MRP, Kanban, Min/max, SOMI, VMI, and third-party warehousing.
4. Utilizes information provided by business systems such as Oracle, Legacy, SAP, etc. daily to balance demand and supply of all assigned items, considering both asset investment and responsibilities to change.
5. Collaborates with internal and external customers to negotiate and resolve scheduling conflicts, inventory levels, material shortages, delivery requirements, cost improvements, quality improvements and other material issues. Assesses and communicates impact on customer's needs.
6. Initiates new sources for materials along with Global Sourcing.
7. Gathers, and monitors relevant data elements regarding supplier performance to improve lead-time, purchase price, quality, transportation costs and on-time delivery and initiate and implement corrective actions.
8. Maintains relevant system data elements including lead-time, order policy, safety stock and all order modifiers. Handles responsibility for all facets of inventory control including identification and processing of obsolete, inactive, and excess material. Resolves disposition of rejected material within set time period. Coordinates implementation of engineering change orders and pre-releases to achieve timely and effective phase in/out of material to support operations as well as ensure on-time delivery, inventory objectives and cost effectiveness.
9. Resolves invoice discrepancies.
10. Additional responsibilities as required for example, coordinating interplant shipments between plants within the Corporation.
**Requirements**:
1. Bachelor's Degree
2. Strong oral and written communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with both internal and external customers required.
3. Must have knowledge of MRP/ERP systems.
4. Ability to read blueprints required.
5. 3 years of related materials/planning/purchasing experience preferred.
6. Experience with capacity planning and purchasing negotiation preferred.
7. Strong computer skills, Microsoft program skills preferred.
8. Certification through APICS and/or NAPM preferred.