Buyer

Job description

Summary: The Buyer role is responsible for: - Timely and competitive procurement of raw materials & subcontract services - Timely job scheduling and release that support production capacity constraints and customer delivery expectations - Regular monitoring of open order status to identify potential delivery risks and recommend countermeasures Essential Duties: - Monitors short and long term material requirement needs, develops and implements effective plans to assure material availability using SAP to manage and action daily ERP messages - Controls the flow of material from the supplier and on the production floor - Monitors supplier on time delivery performance and escalates as necessary to commodity manager if chronic delivery issues are identified - Sends open order report to supplier weekly to ensure current schedule is accurate - Ensures that SAP reflects the most up-to-date delivery schedule from suppliers - Monitors supplier shortages, shortage analysis and communication to appropriate team(s) as necessary - Monitors supplier quality levels and escalates as necessary to commodity manager if chronic delivery issues are identified - Daily expediting to ensure high service lev...