Materials Buyer Planner 1

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This role is responsible for ensuring the timely and most cost-effective material planning and procurement of materials to support the business needs.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Materials Planning (40%)

1. Ensure optimal quantities are purchased and transferred by maintaining minimum order quantities and fixed lot multipliers within Product Information Management. Minimum order quantities and fixed lot multipliers should be aligned with demands, Supplier price breaks, and order quantities produced by the supplier (outside vendor or internal).
2. Ensure that components/raw materials have appropriate min/max and safety stock levels assigned within inventory management.
3. Ensure adequate purchased/transferred material availability through review and release planned orders from min/max inventory replenishment on a daily basis.
4. Ensure adequate purchased/transferred material availability through review and release planned orders in the Supply Plan, on a daily basis, to create transfer orders and purchase orders.
5. Ensure adequate purchased/transferred material availability through managing Supply Exceptions on inbound transfer orders and purchase orders within the Supply Plan on a daily basis and maintain accurate due dates on transfer orders and purchase orders.
6. Perform analysis on Excess inventory and ensure corrective actions are in place to eliminate and prevent it.

Purchase Order (PO) Administration (35%)

1. Process, review, and confirm all requisitions for indirect products or services and/or simple production items into POs through the Oracle System. When appropriate, direct low dollar/low risk purchases through corporate P-Card.
2. Confirm with suppliers the accuracy and acceptance of PO information and update as required.
3. Expediting of orders as needed to support schedules.
4. Review daily open order report and take appropriate action.
5. Reconcile invoice discrepancies and help resolve AP related issues.
6. Partner with Finance to update charge accounts on open POs.
7. Ensure no hung requisitions on the system.
8. Ensure materials arrive as promised, following up with supplier, logistics, and warehouse.
9. Close open POs per client requests.

Supplier Capacity & Commitment Management (10%)

1. Provide forecasts to suppliers.
2. Stay informed on supplier’s capacity constraints.
3. Secure and process returned goods.
4. Trace corrective actions from suppliers.
5. Review and update quality and delivery information in Oracle to ensure accurate Supplier Performance scoring per Panduit’s SPS policy.

Projects (10%)

1. Lead and participate in functional projects. Partner with internal clients to identify, organize, prioritize, and execute projects to meet global supply chain initiatives.
2. Provide, implement, and drive purchasing process solutions for continuous improvement. Use data-driven analysis methods to identify root cause problem areas and lead corrective action.

Engineering Change Order Management (ECO): Update PO detail as required and manage acceptance of Engineering Change Notice with Suppliers (5%)

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

Required Degree: Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain; Operations Management; Business or related field or APICS certification (or local country equivalent education).

Certificate(s): CSCP certification a plus.

Experience: Minimum Bachelor’s Degree or 2 Years in Supply Chain.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITY:

1. Basic MS Office Proficiency.
2. Basic ERP system knowledge (Oracle preferred).
3. Basic data query capability.
4. Ability to analyze and summarize data into actionable summary reports.
5. Supply Chain knowledge (A basic understanding of Supply Chain concepts, Sourcing, Demand Management, Supply Management, and Inventory Management).
6. In addition to local language proficiency, must have English proficiency (oral and written).

Work Shift: Day (Mexico)