What are the responsibilities and job description for the Planner/Buyer position at Bettcher Industries?
Essential Functions:
- Procurement
- Manage procurement of assigned goods / commodities in agreement with company policies and objectives.
- Manage transactional activities related to the quotation, purchase, and delivery of assigned commodities.
- Review requisitions for accuracy and completeness.
- Continually work to improve data accuracy and system integrity.
- Develop and utilize preferred delivery programs.
- Supplier Management
- Manage supplier relationships, analyze performance, and provide feedback.
- Track and analyze commodity metrics to develop and implement improvement plans.
- Actively pursue supply-base rationalization.
- Evaluate supplier capabilities and performance.
- Support new supplier identification / qualification
- Issue resolution
- Defective material returns
- Corrective action requests
- Invoicing
- Support engineering change notices
- Support contract manufacturing opportunities
- Commodity Knowledge
- Act as subject matter expert for assigned commodity groups
- Construct, present, and promote commodity procurement plans
- Pursue product standardization and optimization initiatives
- Collect and analyze commodity data
- Other
- Build and maintain relationships with internal customers to identify and address needs, and develop improvement opportunities
- Pursue continuous improvement / TCO (total cost of ownership) projects with operations, engineering, and suppliers
- Work with various departments to support projects and new product introductions
- Plan and monitor production jobs
- Participate in production and daily management meetings
- Review customer orders and coordinate promise dates with customer service
Knowledge/Skills:
- Bachelor’s Degree in supply chain or other related field required
- At least 3 years purchasing experience in a manufacturing environment
- Proficiency in planning/scheduling, including 3 years of supply chain and/or materials management experience in a manufacturing environment
- ERP experience
Physical Requirements:
- Light physical effort equal to frequent lifting or moving of lightweight materials.
- Regularly required to sit or stand, bend and reach and walk.