Support the company’s goals and objectives through proper sourcing, price negotiation, conformance to quality and product specifications, and assurance of on-time delivery.
Duties:
Statistical and analytical thinking to maneuver in the MRP world for procuring materials.
Collect, analyze, and interpret quantitative data.
Attention to detail and strong analytical skills.
Ability to choose between alternative courses of action.
Ability to map processes of possible consequences of decisions, to work out the importance of individual factors and to choose the best course of action.
Negotiates cost, specifications, and timelines with suppliers, ensuring beneficial agreements.
Possess basic knowledge of supply chain activities, including transformation of natural resources, raw materials and components into a finished product that is delivered to the end customer.
Track and monitor inventory levels to determine what and when to procure materials required to support the manufacturing needs.
Understand that supply and logistics is a system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information, and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer.
Coordinate organization of purchases, scheduling, order placement, delivery, tolerances, and payment to ensure ongoing supply.
Define, measure and track categories for spending to provide status vs. targeted goals.
Collect and analyze organization-wide data to support cross-functional decision-making teams.
Data input & provide updates to system for material & vendor status with regards to lead times, freight and payment terms, standard costing, specifications, and order quantity requirements.
Communicate with vendors to obtain product or service information, such as price, availability, and delivery schedule.
Maintain procurement records, such as items or services purchased, costs, delivery, product quality or performance, and inventories.
Keep abreast of market trends, changes in business practices in the assigned markets, new or altered types of materials entering the market, etc.
May work with manufacturers or persuade potential vendors to undertake the manufacturing of custom-designed items according to the user’s specific needs and specifications.
May expedite delivery of goods to users.
Utilize available computer system resources to carry out analysis to support management’s quest for performance improvement.
Review and analyze information, forecasts, methods, schedules, systems, processes, and procedures.
Determine most useful business solutions for the company.
Recommend alternative solutions to management as to course of action that best meets the organization’s goals.
Analyze requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or to improve existing business systems.
Confer with personnel of organizational departments involved to analyze current operational procedures and identify problems.
Select the most appropriate analytical technique.
Requirements:
BA/BS in business or equivalent work experience in related field within a manufacturing environment associated to the consumer-packaged goods industry.
