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Job Summary
Summary:
The “Buyer Direct” will be based in Senai Medical, reporting to Material Planning Manager.
This role will be coordinating activities involved with procuring direct materials, components and equipment.
Responsibilities:
- Maintaining relations with the suppliers.
- Placing orders for necessary raw materials and purchased parts according to the requirements of the production.
- Receiving and handling the confirmations.
- Checking the purchase orders and modifying them according to the changes in the production plan with the help of the Shortage List and the Open Purchase Order List.
- Tracking shipments, urging them if needed.
- Regular, weekly check of the stocks, avoiding overstock.
- Minimizing the risk of obsolescence with the help of the weekly check of the obsolete report.
- Correspondence with the freight forwarders, warehouses, and in case organizing the transportation.
- Dealing with claims, settling debit and credit issues.
- Filing and recording all necessary documents.
- Checking the inventory of critical materials (personally if needed) according to the Shortage List.
- Getting in touch with the right warehouse personnel and having the discrepancy modified if there is any inventory discrepancies.
- Handling purchasing data privacy.
- Assuring all active components according to production needs, in time, for the accord price in the request.
- Reviews requisitions and MRP output.
- Confers with vendors to obtain product information such as price, availability and delivery schedule.
- Orders, reschedules and cancels material based on requisitions and MRP output.
- Maintains procurement records such as items purchased, costs, delivery and inventories.
- Manages supplier to price, delivery and quality expectations and escalates when appropriate.
- Approves invoices for payment.
- Investigation inventory levels.
- Monitors the movement of materials through the production cycle.
- Conducts quarterly supplier reviews.
- Maintains procurement records, reports and metrics.
Qualifications:
- Typically requires a minimum of 1 to 2 years of procurement experience.
- Use of the following tools may be required: Working usage of Word, Excel and Power Point, English language knowledge, data entry, ten-key, spreadsheet (PC), ERP software.
- Ability to read and comprehend instructions, correspondence and memos.
- Ability to write simple correspondence.
- Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients and other employees of the organization.
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
- Ability to apply common sense comprehension to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
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Job Category
Global Procurement & Supply Chain
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