Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Understands, follows, and enforces all established safety, health, quality GMP and Company policies, procedures, and recognized practices.
- Works closely with customer, schedulers, plant operations and affiliated supply plants to deliver products on time and that delight our customers.
- Uses tools such as SAP/MRP and other Windows based applications to perform all activities from order generation to order confirmation.
- Report potential problems to appropriate Manager and mitigate prior to reaching crisis point.
- Review and control inventory levels.
- Develop Min/max inventories on products with customer commitment.
- Review Daily and Weekly Schedules to ensure materials are available and no production down time is incurred.
- Validates material consumption via production and reviews scrap transactions for components; identify and pursue opportunities to reduce scrap through discussion with supplier and operations personnel.
- Supports the Sr. Vendor Manager, Corporate BU Supply Chain Manager, and Commercial team with supplier score card/KPI maintenance.
- Assists Sr. Vendor Manager with facilitating QBRs with vendors to review performance, expectations, and opportunities for improvement.
- Work with Senior Vendor Manager to optimize OTIF % and troubleshoot issues.
- Work with Customer Schedulers to monitor forecast and mitigate any possible production downtime due to changes in the schedule.
- Work with Management to drive operational improvements in focused areas and fully support continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ensure accuracy of Warehouse on hand inventory, including ensuring all products that may be damaged in the warehouse are properly handled via the HFI procedure.
- Performs multiple month-end closing tasks and reviews month-end closing transactions. Completes month-end closing processes and ensures financial transactions are timely, accurate and meet requirements.
- Works with vendors to root cause any quality issues and drives for corrective actions.
Core Proficiencies and Skills
- Familiar with of ERP systems, supplier lead times, and production cycle times.
- Proficient in written and verbal communication, with a strong emphasis on precise and comprehensive documentation abilities.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to learn and maintain ample knowledge of our products, processes, and services.
- Must demonstrate a clear understanding of how to schedule based upon knowledge of available inventory, priority requirements, transit times while utilizing software such as Excel, and other systems to provide continuous production flow and on-time delivery for our customer.
- Mathematical Skills: Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as proportions and percentages.
- Candidate must demonstrate the ability to analyze large sums of data and make informed decisions to ensure there is no impact to production due to material availability.
- Comfortable with change and dealing with competing demands.
- Aide in project management functions to develop standardization and drive adherence to critical Supply Chain process, systems and functions.
- Create standard work processes (SOP) for all supply chain related tasks, inputs and outputs; establish systems and process to measure compliance to the standards.
- Drive SAP - Scheduling Implementation Project (MPS, MRP, DRP, etc.); develop and execute training and plans for the organization.
- Drive SAP - WMS Implementation Project; develop and execute training and plans for the organization.
- Initiate process/systems to view and drive Supply Chain optimization (IE: freight, warehousing and/or supply network optimization).
- Collaborate with Supply Chain Management and teams to design creative processes and systemic solutions that provide visibility and drive value/results for the organization.
- Support future business needs to drive Supply Chain excellence.