Join Eaton and be a part of our commitment to providing impactful, energy-efficient solutions that shape a sustainable future. As a buyer, you will manage value stream from supplier to distribution centre and production pants, will be responsible for material availability and electrical finish goods inventory management.
Requirements
- Manage flow of goods between Suppliers/Factories and Distribution Center and production plants
- Ensure demand for materials is met and deliveries are made on time
- Set up weekly/ monthly calls with critical vendors - Top 3-5
- Communicate to customer service/OM/ production planners in case there are changes to the supply plan that affect promised sales order dates/production orders
- Ensure KPI are achieved based on daily/monthly/ quarterly reviews
- Develop and maintain good relationships with suppliers, planners, OM, SCC, CM, OP, SP, Process Excellence
- Purchasing data maintenance in SAP to ensure that purchase orders to suppliers for several areas can be processed timely and in the correct way
- Manage Purchase Orders towards to suppliers and work on improvements in system in alignment with Senior/inventory specialist
- Allocate stock based on Order Management/other department approved request and manage inquiries from customer service and be the person to go at the first escalation level
- Manage order confirmation from suppliers - including manual maintenance - first interface to suppliers for all needed clarifications regarding deviation order confirmation (prices, quantities, dates)
- Investigate and solve reasons of blocked Invoices weekly (clarification in case of deviation price- qty)
- Provide Forecast to Vendors and understand the impact
- Track and take continuous improvement actions for KPI - On-time Delivery (OTD); Exception messages, PO OOB
- Escalate if the MRP planning parameters are not correct in SAP to inventory specialist
- Understand and managing risks to minimize impact on planning KPI ́s
- Take follow up actions in relation to material shortages to the DC ́s and production plants (end to end ownership)
- Support any kind of challenging projects and stakeholder of several improvements
- Collaborate with Internal and External stakeholders to forecast, plan and facilitate on-time materials to the Distribution Center and production plants
- Response to queries from Warehouse (ticket system mainly) and support to solve the inbound discrapencies
- Support the CM by anayise on price, consumption, MOQ, material list etc.
- Support stock take in case of consignment/sub-contractor vendors
- Creation/Maintenance PIR, SL for Internal & External suppliers
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Benefits package
- Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team
- Opportunities for internal promotion
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities
- Wellness programs for health and safety
