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The role maintains material coverage, follows purchase orders and supplier commitments, identifies supply risks, and coordinates timely resolution of delivery and purchasing exceptions to protect production continuity. It supports purchasing cost, service, compliance, and supplier-performance objectives through disciplined execution, reliable data, and effective cross-plant prioritization.\nSPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES Maintain material coverage and timely purchasing support for all three Sanimex plants to prevent avoidable shortages and production interruptions. Manage purchasing follow-up from demand review and purchase order placement through supplier confirmation, delivery, and issue resolution. Monitor open orders, shortages, supplier commitments, delivery exceptions, and supply risks; escalate issues requiring timely decisions.\nCoordinate supplier recovery actions and urgent plant requirements according to production impact, lead times, inventory, and purchasing priorities. Provide reliable dashboards and recurring reports that improve visibility of material coverage, exceptions, required actions, and purchasing performance. Support cost, service, supplier-performance, and compliance objectives while following purchasing processes and internal controls.\nPartner with Plant Operations, Planning, Finance, and other stakeholders to resolve exceptions and protect production schedules and customer commitments. Standardize open-order reviews, shortage tracking, supplier follow-up, alerts, templates, and routine purchasing reports. Use ERP data and shared tools accurately, reducing manual consolidation and highlighting exceptions that require judgment or action.\nMaintain workload continuity across the Sanimex purchasing team and support structured transitions of supplier, plant, and open-order responsibilities. SPECIFIC AUTHORITIES Prioritize purchasing actions and supplier follow-up based on material risk and potential production impact. Escalate shortages, late deliveries, supplier exceptions, and commitments that threaten plant requirements.\nRequest supplier recovery plans, revised confirmations, and corrective actions within established purchasing policies. Recommend changes to purchase-order priorities, delivery schedules, and administrative workflows based on business needs. 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