Dairy Inventory & Purchasing Specialist (SAP)

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

Job summary

Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Inc. is a major dairy cooperative owned by 200+ local family farms, dedicated to delivering fresh, local dairy to families across America.

The Inventory Management & Purchasing Specialist will manage raw material, packaging, and ingredient inventories while coordinating procurement to keep production uninterrupted at our fluid dairy facility. You will ensure SAP-based tracking, maintain perishable input stock levels, and partner with production, quality, and finance

Qualifications

• 2-4+ years in inventory management, purchasing, or procurement
• Understanding of HACCP, SQF, GMP or similar
• Strong data analysis and reporting skills
• Experience supporting cycle counts, physical inventories, and variance investigations

Responsibilities

• Monitor and maintain appropriate stock levels of all Raw Materials needed to support daily production through creating, maintaining and receiving purchase orders using 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.

Skills

Inventory management

Purchasing

Procurement

SAP MM

SAP IM

Food safety standards

Data analysis

Cycle counts

Inventory reconciliation

Tools

SAP MM

SAP IM

Job description

Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Inc. is a major dairy cooperative owned by 200+ local family farms, dedicated to delivering fresh, local dairy to families across America.

The Inventory Management & Purchasing Specialist will manage raw material, packaging, and ingredient inventories while coordinating procurement to keep production uninterrupted at our fluid dairy facility. You will ensure SAP-based tracking, maintain perishable input stock levels, and partner with production, quality, and finance