Sr. Buyer/Planner - Components

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The Essential Duties include but not limited to following areas:

• Plan and purchase material requirements and ensure flow of materials for ongoing production as well as for new products in development.
• Prepare, review, place department purchasing requisitions.
• Manage entire cycle of purchase order as well as to ensure vendors receive the orders.
• Maintain computerized purchasing records and paper filing.
• Monitor progress against plan through regular reporting for on-time delivery, warehouse and assembly productivity, backlog, inventory accuracy, vendor performance.
• Monitor and resolve production material shortages.
• Manage supply chain partners including qualification of new suppliers, compliance with company sustainability policy, and ensuring delivery and quality performance targets are achieved.
• Seek, partner and maintain relationships with reliable outside vendors and suppliers to manage purchase order based on demand.
• Responsible and accountable for physical inventory control and accuracy.
• Ensure regular auditing and root cause analysis to drive continual improvement and to document/implement corrective and preventative actions where needed.
• Collaborate with department heads to generate weekly sales forecast.