Job Description

Scheduler/Buyer - Where Precision Meets Performance

About the Job

Overview:

Are you ready to step into a pivotal role in the world of material management and supply planning? We're on the lookout for a vibrant Scheduler/Buyer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you won't just be managing materials; you'll be orchestrating the symphony of our operations to ensure precision, efficiency, and excellence.

Responsibilities:

Demand Planning:

• Dance with data as you review and verify demand forecasts within our state-of-the-art ERP system.
• Keep your finger on the pulse with Inventory Level Projection (ILP) and RO lists.

Supply Planning:

• Join the monthly Sales and Operations planning dance, setting the rhythm for success.
• Glide through daily backlog rescheduling, always in sync with our priorities.
• Showcase your long-term planning prowess, identifying and addressing capacity constraints.
• Lead the way by firming orders within our ERP system, making moves only after receiving the green light through our approvals framework.
• Perform a well-choreographed follow-up with suppliers, ensuring harmony in open order status.
• Share your spotlight with suppliers, providing them with the verified demand forecasts they need.
• Choreograph all supply-related activities for site changes, leaving no room for missed steps.

Reporting and Performance Management:

• Shine a spotlight on stock-out situations, analyzing their every move.
• Be the star of the show as you compile quarterly vendor performance reports.
• Keep the tempo high with On-Time-In-Full (OTIF) performance, ensuring every note is pitch-perfect.
• Take the stage with your monthly and quarterly sales forecast reports, always in perfect harmony.
• Maintain a well-organized tracker for non-conforming stock investigations and claims.
• Let obsolescence be a thing of the past, as you continue to shine in this role.

Logistics Planning:

• Be the conductor of our weekly shipment symphony, orchestrating each note to achieve On-Time-In-Full (OTIF) crescendos.
• Choreograph seamless coordination with manufacturing sites and logistics service providers, ensuring flawless documentation and processing of shipments.
• Keep your ear to the ground, tracking shipments, including the movements of raw materials (Toll).
• Be our risk-minimizing maestro, identifying any potential hiccups in the delivery of our orders.
• Take center stage as you coordinate actions that arise from project meetings.

Planning & Procedures:

• Take the lead in optimizing our current processes, always seeking to add new moves to our playbook.
• Be the choreographer of change, proposing improvements to management on processes, tools, techniques, and products.

Asset/Resource Coordination:

• Set the stage for success by assessing the resource needs of your area of work.
• Request and allocate the necessary assets and resources to ensure our work objectives are met.

Technical Expertise:

• Play a key solo as you provide technical advice to resolve issues faced by our internal stakeholders.
• Continue to innovate and enhance our processes, tools, techniques, and products.

Background/Experience:

• Take a bow if you have 6+ years of relevant experience.
• Your National Diploma in Logistics or Supply Chain Management is your ticket to this performance.

Specific Job Skills:

• Command the stage with your MS Office proficiency.
• Your production planning skills set the rhythm for success.
• Your deep understanding of MRP/MPS logic ensures every move is well-calculated.

Competencies:

• Interrogating Information: You have a knack for digging deep and extracting valuable insights from data.
• Making Decisions: When the spotlight is on you, you make well-informed and impactful decisions.
• Planning and Organizing: You're the choreographer who ensures every step is perfectly executed.
• Meeting Deadlines: You never miss a beat and always deliver on time.
• Customer Awareness: You're in tune with our customers, always exceeding their expectations.

Join our ensemble and become a part of our performance dedicated to excellence in material management and supply planning. Apply today to take your place on this thrilling stage!

LGL Staffing