Material Analyst/buyer - Philadelphia, United States - La Colombe Holdings Group
Description
Summary:
La Colombe's Materials Analyst/Buyer is a critical team member that drives productivity by ensuring proper materials inventory levels to support optimal production schedules.
The responsibilities of this position include:
- Manage inventory planning and ordering to ensure material availability, premium freight, surplus and obsolete, and inventory turn goals are met.
- Review delivery performance, demand history, and other data to recommend material planning and forecast changes to meet department goals.
- Interface with suppliers, production, customer service, engineering, quality, and corporate purchasing to communicate and resolve material availability issues.
- Analyze and coordinate material movement from purchasing to production, ensuring proper inventory levels, safety stock (reorder points) at all times.
- Report scrap data analysis to leadership.
- Define and follow up on materials management indicators and targets for the team.
- Participate in the identification and implementation of material planning strategies.
- Analyze operating results and report weakness and variances from standard operating procedures.
- Create and provide updates on required resources to ensure cost, inventory, service and production levels are consistent with operational objectives.
- Develop and recommend best practices for the material flow systems and procedures
- Collaborate with all involved departments to monitor and alert critical inventory levels
- Develop and implement processes to reduce material overages/shortages
- Determine proper inventory levels and successfully manage supplies for production plan
- Maintain strong vendor relationships to ensure all company expectations are met
- Coordinate the movement of materials between sites, storage and vendors
- Communicate the most efficient and effective use of transportation of materials
The requirements of this position include:
- Bachelor's degree preferred; Associate's degree required.
- 35 years of related work experience in packaging materials and goods
- Experience preferred in use of SAP Materials Requirements Planning (MRP)
- Inventory management skills
- Excellent organizational skills
- Proficiency with MS Office with strong MS Excel skills. MS Access Database experience a plus.
- Creative, quality and resultsdriven work ethic.
- Able to work independently, and collaboratively in a team
- Needs to work well under pressure while maintaining a professional demeanor
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