What are the responsibilities and job description for the Purchasing Manager position at Dakota Tube Inc?
Title: Supply Chain Manager
Reports to: President
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business or comparable experience
- Negotiating/purchasing experience
- Logistics experience including understanding of rate components for LTL carriers
- Excellent communication skills
- Microsoft Word, Excel, and some ERP purchasing software experience
- Experience managing people and material resources
Training
All training is provided on-the-job to perform this role. Process requirements and work instructions are provided. Regular meetings and performance reviews are used by Management to provide assistance in troubleshooting, mentorship, and to help create new strategies to improve department performance.
Responsibilities:
- Market and Supply Base Assessment - Work to maintain a Supply Base of vendors that ensures competitiveness and meets quality, delivery, and communication expectations. Continuously develop strategies to address Supply Base weaknesses. These items may include research, market testing, supplier improvement strategies, and negotiations.
- Raw Material Demand Planning – Maintain system data parameters (such as safety stock, lead time, pricing, order quantities) to ensure smooth purchase ordering. Create, monitor, and distribute relevant reports for purchased part demand in order to proactively respond to changes in customer demand and minimize shortages, excess inventory, and obsolescence.
- Order Management – Manage process for creation of new orders, changes to purchase orders, order confirmation, freight, and expediting.
- Order Receiving – Manage process for receiving and verifying orders and processing packing slips. Periodically report on receiving to all relevant managers and personnel.
- Inventory Management – Manage inventory systems to maintain inventory accuracy, which may include inventory maps, labeling and packaging requirements, and storage instructions. Periodically verify inventory compliance and implement corrections as necessary. Manage cycle counting and year-end inventory counts.
- Accounts Payable Management – Manage vouchering and payment processes. Manage Supplier Contracts to smoothly verify non-purchase order invoicing. Manage processes to address invoice discrepancies. Manage and report AP Aging to make payments to Suppliers.
- Compliance – Monitor internal compliance to make sure Supply Management Processes are meeting their intended goals and make adjustments as necessary. Manage some external compliance requirements such as Self-Assessed SD Sales Tax, 401(k) ERISA audits, or other similar external compliance requirements. If necessary, make adjustments to processes based on external or internal compliance audits.
- Manage Others – Interview, hire, train, and mentor Supply Management Team Members to assist in or manage some of the above processes. Typically, this involves operating on a regular schedule or cadence of required activities.
Learn more about benefits @ www.dakotatube.com/careers
Download our application @ https://www.dakotatube.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Application.pdf