Job Abstract

Summary:

Responsible for assuring the continuous supply of assigned components to support customer service goals, minimize the total landed cost of material and optimize company’s cash flow.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluates and acts upon the demand requirements and Kanban levels for assigned commodities. Generates and adjusts purchase orders and/or shop work orders to support production schedules.  Effectively communicates areas of concern to appropriate departments, individuals and/or suppliers. Inputs, maintains, and adjusts records or transactions to ensure system validity.
• Prepares and presents recommendations for improvement opportunities and alternative courses of action to supply chain/value stream leaders. Supports purchasing management in activities such as price benchmarking, vendor management, process analysis, market and industry research, and model building.
• Consistently applies purchasing policies, procedures and processes. Manages loading and retrieving of legal and compliance documents into applicable storage systems.
• Proactively identifies and takes appropriate corrective actions to prevent material shortages. Expedites materials as required and provides accurate material status information to other departments and site management.
• Effectively communicates forecasted requirements to external suppliers.
• Objectively measures and communicates supplier performance to support supply chain continuous improvement efforts.  Interfaces with Suppliers, Quality, Strategic Sourcing, Customer Service, Sales and Engineering to quickly resolve quality, delivery or cost issues.
• Drives increases in inventory turns, reduce cycle times, and improved Customer OTD by developing, implementing and managing pull-based material replenishment processes, including, but not limited to Kanban cards, vendor managed inventory and supplier consignments.
• Works closely with the Value Stream, Commodity Management, Manufacturing, Site Managers, and Engineering teams to proactively identify, prioritize and complete resourcing and supplier development projects.
• Supports resourcing and out-sourcing projects by proactively planning materials to ensure uninterrupted flow of product to customers as required.
• Ensures quick resolution of shipping discrepancies, receiving errors, and invoice errors, and verifies inventory adjustments variance questions related to demand order fulfillment such as purchase orders, transfer orders and job orders.  Coordinates adjustments to ship dates or quantities on open purchase orders as necessary.
• Works to eliminate excess and obsolete parts, and rationalize similar parts.
• Consistent with DOVER’s Operational Excellence focus, participates in Kaizen events that will eliminate waste and result in significant benefits (Growth, Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost) throughout the Supply Chain.
• Exhibits a spirit of cooperation throughout the supply chain to insure responsiveness to the customer.

Skills:

• Excellent analytical, problem solving/decision making skills; ability to make timely, effective, fact based decisions and multi-task to manage several responsibilities simultaneously. Includes strong working knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet and scheduling software.
• Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to problem solve and produce customer-focused solutions and results in multifunctional teams in a dynamic work environment. 
• Proven ability to develop collaborative relationships and influence up, down, and across organizational lines.

Education and Experience:

• One year prior experience in purchasing, inventory, planning, or similar role in a manufacturing environment. Education can be substituted in lieu of experience.
• APICS (CSPC, CPIM) and Continuous Improvement (OPEX, Lean Six Sigma, 5S) certifications are highly desirable.
• Direct experience working in high mix, low volume manufacturing environment with quick turn repairs.
• Computer literate and proficient in ERP systems (Syteline preferred) and Microsoft Office 365 software (e.g. Word, Excel, Access, MS project, Power Bi, etc.).

*Note: This Job Description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by the Supervisor. All requirements are subject to change and updates.