The Material Buyer/Planner is responsible for planning and scheduling the delivery of material from suppliers. This tactical position is responsible for monitoring the flow of buy items, guarantees availability of components to avoid material shortages and production downtime, as well as manage inventory levels to meet our customer service and inventory targets.
Requirements
- Receive and analyze requisitions to determine quantity, specifications, and delivery requirements.
- Recommend and select suppliers to fulfill scheduled plant deliveries, from approved supplier list
- Ensure up-to-date ABC classification is maintained for planning, and other key inputs into the PFEP process
- Ensure optimal inventory levels and safety stock are maintained for respective parts
- Coordinate with Quality Assurance to resolve quality issues with suppliers.
- Maintain proactive shortage identification and management – identify root causes and corrective actions.
- Analyze and select parts for consigned inventory - Supplier replenishment.
- Expedite deliveries to meet and exceed scheduled critical requirements.
- Maintain material plan at the time fence to ensure continuity of supply.
- Coordinate with production planners for solutions when parts cannot be delivered as promised.
- Maintain and continuously evaluate supplier performance and escalate to Procurement when issues occur.
- Resolve invoicing discrepancies with suppliers and accounting.
- Analyze material and capacity availability to provide customer promise dates for sales orders.
- Maintains item master lead time information based upon process improvements, current constraints, total current demand by product family, and priority information.
- Manage internal and VMI material and parameters to meet schedules.
- Interface with required functional groups to resolve challenging delivery requirements.
- Communicate forecasts and replenishment plans to supplier.
- Review open requirements, monitoring vendor performance and expediting where necessary. Ensure that problems relating to delivery, quality or pricing are promptly conveyed to the supplier and resolved in a timely manner
- Maintain product knowledge in terms of options, substitutions, critical functions/components, etc.
- Understand material specifications in terms of substitutions, quality, engineering requirements, etc.
- Maintain basic knowledge of supplier processes and capabilities.
- Understanding of Kanban and JIT systems.
Benefits
- Immediate health, dental and vision insurance coverage
- Wellness incentives, such as up to $1000 HSA contributions depending upon participation.
- A commitment to your future with a 401K plan, offering a 6% company match and no vesting period
- Generous vacation and sick time, accrued through the year.
- Convenient Vanpools and discounted Orca Card memberships.
- Free on-site fitness center.
- Tuition Reimbursement opportunities
- Employee Discounts through Perks at Work
