What are the responsibilities and job description for the Supply Management Specialist position at The Integration Group?
Description
Job Summary
The Supply Management Specialist is responsible for monitoring the daily operations of the company’s supply chain, from raw materials to finished goods, ensuring products are delivered to customers on time and within budget. This position will implement best practices in procurement, inventory management, and logistics to ensure the supply chain runs smoothly and efficiently. The Supply Management Specialist will optimize operations, cut costs, and improve customer service levels.
General Duties, And Responsibilities
Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people in this position. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required from personnel. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside their normal responsibilities as needed.
Job Summary
The Supply Management Specialist is responsible for monitoring the daily operations of the company’s supply chain, from raw materials to finished goods, ensuring products are delivered to customers on time and within budget. This position will implement best practices in procurement, inventory management, and logistics to ensure the supply chain runs smoothly and efficiently. The Supply Management Specialist will optimize operations, cut costs, and improve customer service levels.
General Duties, And Responsibilities
- Monitor the daily operations of the company’s supply chain, from raw materials to finished goods, ensuring products are delivered to customers on time and within budget.
- Implement best practices in procurement, inventory management, and logistics to ensure the supply chain runs smoothly and efficiently.
- Based on historical sales and intelligence of future sales create a forecast to place purchase orders with suppliers at appropriate lead times. Continuously analyze, update, and maintain inventory forecasts.
- Optimize operations, cut costs, and improve customer service levels.
- Manage new part setup by confirming the price, minimum order quantity, and supplier information in the system.?
- Assist the Inventory Coordinator to resolve inventory discrepancy issues.?
- Provide customer support with direct and efficient communication on order status and other requests as provided by the customer. Prioritize urgent orders with operations to meet the needs of the customer.
- Manage inventory levels, ensuring adequate stock is maintained for all necessary supplies and materials while avoiding overstocking and minimizing waste.
- Responsible for issuing purchase orders, negotiating prices, and expediting orders.
- Ensure suppliers are reliable, cost-effective, and meet the company’s quality standards. Monitor supplier performance to assess the ability to meet quality and delivery requirements.
- Quote, evaluate, negotiate, and select carriers for bulk and LTL shipments as required.?
- Communicate and work with other departments as required to complete all tasks such as invoice resolution, inventory discrepancies, prioritizing shipments, and follow-up lost shipments.
- Complete receipt of goods and receipt of invoice in the warehouse system.
- Manage Bill of Materials and create work orders for kitting and assembly of finished kits.?
- Document import paperwork with customs broker to ensure smooth import activities.?
- Monitor supply chain performance metrics (KPI), supplier scorecards, and work with suppliers to address areas to improve.
- Manage inbound logistics for incoming shipments by selecting the most cost-effective mode of transportation (domestic and international)
- Manage credit memos from suppliers.
- Maintain 5S in your work area.
- Internal transfer of material in the system.
- Confirm work ticket closures.
- Back up for the Supply Management Planner role.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in supply management, Business, Accounting, or IT or at least 5 years’ experience in a technical, IT, business related position.
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a warehouse or production environment.?
- Knowledge of raw materials, forecasting, production processes, quality control, and cost management.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-speed environment, follow standardized work, and adhere to safe work practices in a continuous improvement environment.
- Proven excellent customer support experience.
- Experience and competence with MS Office Products including Teams, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
- Experience with Sage 100 and X3 a plus
- Assertive and clear written and oral communication.
- Willingness to grow and adapt as the needs of the business grow.
- Detail-oriented, organized, and able to problem solve.
- Ability to work independently and team-orientated, with diverse individuals within and outside the TIG Organization.
- Self-motivated, self-directed, and hardworking.
- The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, sit, and walk. The employee is occasionally required to lift up to 40 pounds on their own, use hands to grasp or handle objects, reach with hands and arms, stoop, talk, and hear. Able to perform physical labor continually and stand for long periods.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people in this position. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required from personnel. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside their normal responsibilities as needed.