Dairy Inventory & Purchasing Specialist (SAP)

Upstate Niagara Cooperative; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

The Inventory Management & Purchasing Specialist at Upstate Niagara Cooperative will manage raw material, packaging, and ingredient inventory, coordinate purchasing, and ensure accurate SAP inventory tracking to support uninterrupted production at our fluid dairy facility.

You will partner with production, quality and finance teams to optimize stock levels, perform cycle counts, and drive cost effective purchasing while upholding food safety standards.

Qualifications

• 2–4+ years of experience in inventory management, purchasing, or procurement, ideally within food/beverage or dairy manufacturing.
• Hands-on experience with SAP MM and/or SAP IM modules.
• Understanding of food safety and quality standards (HACCP, SQF, GMP, or similar) as they relate to inventory handling.
• Strong data analysis and reporting skills.
• Experience supporting cycle counts, physical inventories, and variance/discrepancy investigations.
• With SAP purchase order creation, goods receipt processing, and inventory reconciliation workflows.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and maintain stock levels of Raw Materials; create, maintain, and receive purchase orders in SAP.
• Create and direct cycle counts.
• Raw Material Inventory Turns/Investment Performance Reporting
• Raw Material Warehouse Capacity Utilization (Shared with WH Team)
• Raw Material inventory Health Reporting (Maintenance of Targeted Safety Stocks)
• RM Inventory Accuracy Management & Reporting (Shared with Plant WH) - 99.5% Location Record Goal
• Supervise Dry warehouse Personnel in the execution of daily tasks to include Goods Movements, inventories and receipts.
• Plan/Schedule daily production using SAP to generate and release production process orders daily.
• Order RAW milk/Bulk ingredients
• Generate Stock Transfer orders
• Maintain appropriate levels of “Re-Sale” items needs to fulfill customer demand
• Perform Duties as Production/Cooler supervisor as directed to ensure gap coverage

Skills

SAP MM

SAP IM

Data Analysis

Inventory Management

Cycle Counts

Purchasing

Tools

SAP MM

SAP IM

Job description

The Inventory Management & Purchasing Specialist at Upstate Niagara Cooperative will manage raw material, packaging, and ingredient inventory, coordinate purchasing, and ensure accurate SAP inventory tracking to support uninterrupted production at our fluid dairy facility.

You will partner with production, quality and finance teams to optimize stock levels, perform cycle counts, and drive cost effective purchasing while upholding food safety standards.