Purchasing Associate - Wilburton, United States - Franklin Electric

Description

Purchasing Associate

Department:
Materials/Inventory


Employment Type:
Full Time


Location:
US - Oklahoma - Wilburton


Description

Responsible for managing and insuring accuracy of open purchase orders from conception to receipt including timeliness and quality; reporting out on expedite requests; help manage requests and issues from internal customers as well as the procurement team.

Key Responsibilities

• Reviews and mitigates material shortages to prevent production issue related to supply.
• Work with vendors to maintain open purchase order receipt dates, quantity and cost accuracy.
• Review inventory on high velocity items and work will vendors to reduce internal inventory while maintaining availability.
• Manage expedite requests with vendors and production to provide best case scenario and accurate feedback.
• Provide full support receiving issues and providing corrective actions to vendors to mitigate future issues.
• Work with quality on vendor quality issues and corrective actions as well as process returns.
• Manage outside production partners material availability, insuring on-time delivery.
• Managing the integrity/accuracy of purchasing and production related data.
• Help drive and organize procurement related projects
• Cross-functional liaison for procurement.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

• None.

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

• Extremely agile, quick and strategic thinker that possesses strong analytical skills.
• A developed understanding of supply chain in terms of process.
• Experience in vendor relations
• Drives projects to completion or resolution
• Ability to quickly understand ERP or like system
• Efficient, proven organizational and project management skills.
• Demonstrates ability to quickly prioritize projects and day to day tasks.
• Strong interpersonal/written communication skills.
• Team player able to work well across business operations and develop strong business teams.
• Ability to mine data using Excel ad hoc reporting and SQL

Education and Experience

• Three (+) years of relevant education or experience in planning, purchasing, logistics, or a related field (required).
• Experience using ERP/MRP system
• Experience in a high paced manufacturing environment (preferred) and supplier negotiations
• Associate's or Bachelor's degree preferred

Computer Skills

• 
  Microsoft Office Suite
• Alphanumeric data entry.

Certificates and Licenses

• None.

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