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Job Type
Full-time
Description
Join our team in Thief River Falls, MN as a Procurement Specialist. In this onsite role, you'll help ensure materials are available to support production, manage supplier performance, and drive inventory accuracy in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. If you're analytical, organized, and enjoy solving supply chain challenges, we'd love to hear from you.
- Analyze raw material demand for purchase and on-time delivery in an MRP environment to ensure accuracy and adherence to the established schedule and to identify potential improvements.
- Track actual and potential supply and delivery to provide timely communications and analysis.
- Assess supplier performance against predetermined goals by monitoring quality acceptance rates, delivery performance, and cost savings performance.
- Communicate with vendors to obtain product, price, availability, and delivery information and analyze domestic and international shipping forecasts to achieve optimal inventory levels.
- Prepare material variance analyses and review cycle count results to make improvement recommendations.
- Prepare reporting for MPS variances for team review to confirm material availability and schedule timing to production control.
- Review and assign part change notices to other planners and place purchase orders to expedite materials to meet weekly production plans.
- Responsible for daily completion of shortage report to provide accurate updates to operations and materials teams.
- Prepare Sales Inventory Operations Plan (SIOP) and MPS change comparisons to identify potential constraints and trends.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Business or related field required
- 3 or more years of experience required
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and SAP preferred
Salary Description
$65,000 - $80,000