The Planner will plan and procure material to meet customer requirements at an optimal cost. Maintaining inventory levels, addressing shortages, and supporting product evolution are daily functions. The Senior Buyer will manage the most complex of parts and suppliers for the business. This position is expected to provide informal leadership, training, and expertise across all elements of material planning and buying
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
1. To develop detailed daily and weekly production plan according master schedule.
2. To issue job orders & documentation packets to production in a daily basis according to detailed schedule.
3. To update job orders already issued to production floor according to engineering changes with immediate implementation request.
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4. To review material availability for new job orders to release and expedite shortages with purchasing.
5. To close job orders already completed by production.
6. To supervise released job orders completion status with production and inform management about potential constraints and recommits.
7. Maintain relevant data elements including lead time, order policy, safety stock and other planning parameters. Review and update planning parameters.
8. Monitor's supplier performance to ensure quantity & delivery requirements are met per schedule & implements corrective action plans as needed.
9. Identifies & resolves potential delivery issues w/ internal customers.
1. Maintain desired inventory levels while ensuring maximum inventory turns.
2. Review excessive inventories, establish root causes and resolve them. Helps with disposition and elimination of obsolete and slow-moving inventory.
3. Adheres to productivity & performance standards established by Manager.
4. Update forecasts on as needed basis based on demand and design changes.
5. Review capacity load per work center and re-schedule jobs to balance the load.
6. Coordinate's shipments of products according to shipment schedule: allocate product to customer orders, prepares shipping paperwork, expedite product export and special shipping instructions.
7. Daily communication with production supervisors to establish priorities.
8. Expedite customer priorities: negotiate with production, purchasing, import/export and McAllen, makes commitments to customers and follow-up until requirements are full-filled.
9. Identify material shortages and expedite them from buyers and other planners.
10. Keep informed Customer Service on status orders.
Qualifications
ü Previous experience in a manufacturing environment.
ü Bilingual (English/Spanish).
ü Understand MRP, purchasing & planning bills
ü Sense of urgency and good follow-up skills.
ü Well-developed management, communicative and administrative skills.
ü Must possess analytical skills, investigative problem-solving techniques and the ability to receive and give direction to accomplish job tasks.
ü Hands on experience with calculating safety stocks, reorder points (MIN/MAX) and forecasting and inventory turns.
ü Good understanding of how excess, obsolete, payment terms, ITO and PPV impact business financials.
ü Understands inventory turns concept.
ü APICS certification (preferred and then required)
Schedule: Full-time
Req: 009EVI