Buyer Planner Staff

SUMMARY: Responsible for procuring raw materials, OEM components, capital equipment, tooling, supplies and services, to ensure customer service level, while achieving the targeted inventory turn objective. Responsible to strike an optimal balance between cost, quality, delivery and service in a fast-paced environment. Responsible to thoroughly understand the commodities they support, to give the organization a competitive advantage and evaluate suppliers’ capabilities, negotiate and administer contracts as necessary.

Responsible for creating build plans for production lines considering capacity, materials availability and customer requirements. Responsible for coordinating and reviewing scheduling activities to support one or more product lines.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSABILITIES including but not limited to the following:

Business Essentials:

• Responsible for ensuring personal and company compliance with local and company regulations, policies and procedures for Health, Safety and Environmental compliance.
• Participates and leads discussion with costumers around delivery schedules.
• Analyzes, recommends and implements processes and procedures to provide accurate results on the inventory control of raw and/or any other materials.
• Develop strategic objectives that focus on areas of quality, cost, flexibility, productivity and speed.
• Demonstrate the ability to consistently deliver products and services to meet customer needs.
• Recognize that continuous process improvement is an accepted way of life in business.
• Accurately identify risks that affect supply, transformation, delivery and customer demand.
• Visualize the total process and aid in locating problem areas using process mapping, quality improvement and visualization tools to locate, quantify and correct root causes of problems.

Execution, scheduling and control:

• Responsible for paperwork generation to support assigned product lines. This includes traveler issuing and closing, connecting jobs on the floor to orders in the system, and other activities typically performed by the production control function.
• Implement and determine the appropriate scheduling technique to control capacity at work centers: Finite scheduling, Infinite scheduling, Forward scheduling, Backward scheduling to ensure sufficient capacity to implement MRP by using CRP.
• Recommends and implement measures to improve production control methods.
• Revises purchasing or planning documentation as appropriate.
• Follow up production until reach ship date required checking no to over or under ship.
• Close working relationship between manufacturing and materials management personnel.
• Understand calculations for efficiency, utilization and productivity

Enterprise resources planning (ERP):

• Cooperate in the alignment of the materials management strategy with the business strategies driving sales, marketing, finance and manufacturing.
• Determine the need for capacity to address expected demand, execute the resulting plans, and update planning and financial information to reflect the results.
• Understand output of materials requirement planning (MRP), capacity management and advanced planning system technologies.
• Be capable of discussing and demonstrating the MRP gross-to-net explosion process while ̥̥have knowledge of planning utilizing action messaging, have knowledge of planning time fences in MRP, be capable of defining the types of replenishment orders found in the MRP grid, be capable of working with pegged requirements in MRP, know how to perform order rescheduling in MRP , understand the various MRP output reports, know when MRP is to be generate, have knowledge of detail capacity planning (CRP), have detailed knowledge of the CRP components (work centers, labor and machines, routings, setup times, run, standards and move times) necessary to run CRP.
• Understand advanced planning systems relationships to MRP planning systems.
• Expert and mentor in the S&OP process using EPICOR including the forecast update, MOM/BOMs structure, Resource groups, Production Scheduling, Work Center loading, Job Management using different tools including but not limited to Planning Workbench, Production priority reports, Job status maintenance and Job scheduling board.
• Promote the usage of the EPICOR tools over manual/isolated spreadsheets.

Supply Chain & Inventory Management:

• Understand that supply chain management spans all movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory and finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption.
• Demonstrate the ability to visualize the total process and aid in locating problem areas using process mapping, quality improvement and visualization tools to locate, quantify and correct root causes of problems.
• Perform periodic evaluations to maintain processes by gathering pertinent information such as problem symptoms from knowledgeable sources and carrying these through to the problems, potential causes and root causes of the problem.
• Active involvement in departmental inventory management strategies and objectives.
• Know how to apply trade-off analysis to balance requirements of demand and supply.
• Understand the different classes of inventory (raw materials, WIP, finished goods, MRO, service parts, damaged and obsolete).
• Understand the difference between independent and dependent demand inventory.

Materials Administration:

• Generates adjusts and expedites purchase orders based on the MRP (material requirements planning) along with pertinent information being used to run the business that maybe more current, i.e. schedule adherence, SOP, WI, policies.
• Generates buy action based on authorized spending amount.
• Maintain optimal service levels and determine the proper priorities for material support
• Tracks and monitors purchase orders, keeping informed of any problems/delays and communicates any impacts/constraints to the Value stream team, manufacturing manager/supervisor or other discipline impacted by the change.
• Supports material needs for the product development process; Generates on-going cost savings through the Value improvement Process.
• Participates on PDP (Product Development Process) teams for sourcing material.
• Manages complex commodities and/or responsibilities.
• Displays leadership by promoting change ideas and driving implementation.

Supplier Management:

• Monitors and communicates quality and delivery performance to the supplier.
• Obtains bids to promote a competitive environment (locates, interviews, analyzes and evaluates vendor capabilities to select suppliers, partners with these suppliers to maximize company funds).
• Responsible to resolve supplier related problems (works closely with suppliers to assure a positive and professional relationship, always establishing and maintaining open lines of communication.
• Maintains awareness of market trends pertaining to their responsibility.

Total Quality:

• Adheres to FDA, BSI requirements.
• Reviews and approves raw material document change orders.
• Maintains accurate purchasing master data, AVL, etc.
• Interfaces with Engineering, Quality, Production and Warehouse to ensure timely throughput and proper prioritization of materials received.

Inventory Management:

• Manages complex, high impact or high financial risk commodities and/or responsibilities.
• Formulates purchasing decisions to achieve internal customer service, targeted inventory turns and least total cost material procurement.
• Identifies expired, excess and obsolete materials and dispositions the material appropriately.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Have supervisory responsibilities: as requested.

Leadership: May Supervise, train, develop, appraise work assignments of personnel.

Supervises: none

Supervision:

General Direction:

• Works under general direction regarding the direction and progress of projects and special assignments.
• Independently determines and develops approach to solutions.
• Interprets, executes and recommends modifications to company policies.
• Assists in establishing departmental policies and procedures. Work is reviewed upon completion for adequacy in meeting objectives.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor´s degree with 4-5 years of related experience.
• Proficient personal computer skills including electronic mail, record keeping, routine database activity, word processing, spreadsheet and graphics.

OTHER SKILLS and ABILITIES:

• Ability to work in a self-managed work team environment.
• Ability to work different work schedules.
• Advanced level in written and oral English communication skills required.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• A seasoned, experienced professional with wide-ranging experience and expertise in a specialized field.
• Applies comprehensive knowledge of a particular field to resolve complex issues in creative ways.
• Full knowledge of other related disciplines.
• Uses in-depth knowledge of business unit functions and cross group dependencies/relationships.
• Is recognized as an expert in the work group.
• Develops solutions to diverse business problems of high complexity which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity.
• Analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.
• Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Has specialized knowledge of various alternatives and their impact on the business.
• Challenges are frequently unique and solutions may serve as precedent for future decisions.
• Serves as a consultant to management and special external spokesperson for the organization on major matters pertaining to its policies, projects, or objectives.
• Uses diplomacy and tact to diffuse high tension situations, particularly with senior level internal and external contacts.
• Occasionally escalates the most serious issues to manager.

MANUAL DEXTERITY: Manual dexterity sufficient to reach/handle items and work with the fingers.

VISION REQUIREMENTS: No special vision requirements

WORK SCHEDULE/HOURS: Monday – Friday.

TRAVEL: Minimal

ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING CONDITIONS

Well-lighted, heated and/or air-conditioned indoor office setting with adequate ventilation.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Other physical working conditions:

• Lifting or carrying items.
• Moderate noise (examples: business office with computers and printers, light traffic).

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVEL:

Sedentary physical activity performing non-strenuous daily activities of an administrative nature.

COMMENTS: This job description is an outline of the major recurring responsibilities of the job. It is not intended to be all-inclusive of the work to be performed. The incumbent will typically perform other related job objectives, special assignments and less significant responsibilities.