Job Description
Establishes and maintains a supply/purchase plan to support master production schedule.
• Maintains status of all raw materials and purchased component shortages that affect or will affect assigned manufacturing value streams.
• Communicate early and often to stakeholders.
• Executes purchase orders to achieve optimum delivery of materials in economic order quantities.
• Purchase order delivery dates maintained regularly.
• Meet with suppliers weekly to align their manufacturing schedules to meet our needs.
• Ensures availability of purchased materials necessary to support the production plan while maintaining the inventory within budgeted limits.
• Be able to achieve Key Performance Indicators as directed.
• Maintains contact with the marketing, product management, forecasting, legal, regulatory affairs, quality, supplier quality, manufacturing teams, and accounts payable.
• Assists in quoting new and existing projects by maintaining valid competitive quotations on existing products and issue purchase orders to approved suppliers per company policy.
• Coordinates the timely resolution of rejected purchased materials.
• Assist in development of annual supply agreements/contracts with suppliers.
• Able to do data analysis for exceptions that occur daily by troubleshooting, root causing, and SAP forensics.
• Master data accuracy is required.