Commodity Buyer

Job Description

The Manufacturing Supply Chain provides leadership and assistance to develop materials, logistics and manufacturing strategies to achieve the business plan for strategically located manufacturing facilities in North America and numerous outsourced fabricators and suppliers.

Issue Purchase Orders and review invoices

Manage supplier issues

Conduct regular vendor meetings to review performance and identify areas of improvement

Maintain and communicate lead-time documents and monitor on-time vendor deliveries

Track forecast vs. actual deliveries and update and maintain price documents

Run monthly queries, maintain raw material specification documents, review inventory planning model, and balance commitments and forecasting documents with inventory targets

Provide and maintain accurate forecast

Recommend and assist in ERP settings

Assist in removal of distressed inventory for each plant

Provide input into the forecast for centrally planned commodities

Manage special project requirements