Responsibilities Include:
Management of Purchase Order Lifecycle
• Creating, approving and placing purchase orders for inventoried and non-inventoried goods.
• Managing open purchase orders to coordinate delivery dates and to optimize deliveries to support the
production schedule.
• Recording confirmations from vendors, maintaining purchase orders in ERP with latest details, and
communicating any updates to the internal team.
• Managing and maintaining vendor information in the ERP system.
• Serving as the day-to-day contact point for order-related questions from vendors.
• Working with Accounts Payable to resolve invoice discrepancy issues.
Plant Support
• Working with the production team to ensure non-inventoried and consumable supplies are available for
production use.
• Working with the maintenance team to ensure spare parts and supplies are available for preventative
maintenance and repairs.
• Reporting production results via Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) daily.
• Providing instruction and ad hoc documentation for issue management, including:
o Inspection records for increased QC or equipment monitoring.
o Unique placards for identifying material, locations or equipment.
o Process descriptions for tracking material, staging waste or recording production disruptions.
Inventory Management
• Using the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software platform to reconcile physical activities and
material inventory with electronic records for financial reconciliation. ERP transactions to include:
o Receiving process material delivered for production use.
o Posting production results to record raw material consumption and process output.
o Completing movement and transfer journals to reflect cycle count results and to resolve inventory
discrepancies.
• Ensuring the correct receipt of inventoried materials and consumable supplies.
• Allocating and tracking raw materials to ensure FEFO, environmental compliance, and quality traceability.
• Defining and managing the program for controlling inventory, including labeling, placards and cycle
counts.
Continuous Improvement
• Partnering with Quality, Production and Engineering to identify the root cause of raw material quality
issues and working cross-functionally to propose and implement solutions that uphold quality, delivery
and cost performance.
• Generating and assessing proposals for supply chain improvements including changes in suppliers,
buying patterns, space allocation and inventory management to support business growth.