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Controls raw material stocks, components, purchased items, operating supplies pertinent to meeting Manufacturing/Customer Service requirements. Expedites purchases. Ensures that proper quantities of materials are on order. Contacts vendors and shippers to ensure that merchandise, supplies, and equipment are forwarded on specified shipping dates.\n ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:\nTo perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, including but not necessarily limited to the following:\nPlans purchase orders for a variety of commodities, materials, and supplies. Works from requisitions, drawings, specifications and memos.\nReviews upcoming orders to ensure that proper quantities are on order. Update quantities just prior to vendor's run date.\nLocates sources of supply, interviews vendors, checks reliability of suppliers, obtains quotations and makes quotation comparisons. Also maintains direct follow-up of purchase orders and develops adequate and reliable sources of supply.\nAs conditions warrant, expedites advanced shipments of orders or orders in part to satisfy plant production requirements.\nReviews upcoming orders to ensure that deliveries are on schedule.Contacts vendor by mail, phone, or visit to verify shipment of goods on specified date.\n\nFollows up on overdue materials.\nMaintains vendor performance reports as required.\nReviews open allocations to ensure that allocations for completed jobs are deleted from the system.\nWorks with Shipping Manager to ensure deliveries. Researches and authorizes special shipping as the situation demands.\nWorks with Shipping Manager to negotiates rates and service schedules to ensure timely delivery of material at the most economical cost. Communicates daily between C/S Sales Departments and transportation companies.\nInforms supervisor of problems as encountered such as failure of vendor to supply materials, short deliveries, transit problems, etc., so that alternate procedures may be initiated, e.g. utilizing alternate supply sources, revising production schedules, etc., to avoid delays.\nReceives and reviews requisitions for goods or services to be purchased. Ascertains required delivery dates and what materials and quantities should be purchased from purchase requisition or other authorization.\nMaintains records of purchase orders, follow up and expediting activities.Establishes and varies inventory levels, order points and procurement lead time for delivery to assure adequate operating stocks to facilitate manufacturing schedules and customer services.\n\nMaintains stock levels in the most economical quantities to minimize investment, controls storage costs, handling and obsolescence.\nProvides and maintains basis for recording inventories, movement and storage of materials and goods and appropriate controls to accomplish the above objectives.Compiles data from sources such as contracts, purchase orders, invoices, requisitions, and accounting report and writes, types, or enters information into computer to maintain inventory, purchasing, shipping, or other records.\n\nCompiles stock control records and information such as consumption rate, characteristics of items in storage, and current market conditions, to determine stock supply and need for replenishment.\nPrepares requisitions, orders, or other documents for purchasing or requisitioning new or additional stock items.\nPrepares requisitions, orders, or other documents for purchasing or requisitioning new or additional stock items.\nAssists in determining obsolete materials and parts; reviews files to determine unused items and recommends disposal of excess stock.\nAssigns and builds new part numbers as required.\nReports to Supply Chain Manager any changes that would save production time and money and develops reports to keep track of same.\nWorks with I.T. 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