Inventory Management Specialist

Management of Purchase Order Lifecycle • Creating, approving and placing purchase orders for inventoried and non-inventoried goods. • Managing open purchase orders to coordinate delivery dates and to optimize deliveries to support the production schedule. • Recording confirmations from vendors, maintaining purchase orders in ERP with latest details, and communicating any updates to the internal team. • Managing and maintaining vendor information in the ERP system. • Serving as the day-to-day contact point for order-related questions from vendors. • Working with Accounts Payable to resolve invoice discrepancy issues.

Plant Support • Working with the production team to ensure non-inventoried and consumable supplies are available for production use. • Working with the maintenance team to ensure spare parts and supplies are available for preventative maintenance and repairs. • Reporting production results via Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) daily. • Providing instruction and ad hoc documentation for issue management, including:

o Inspection records for increased QC or equipment monitoring. o Unique placards for identifying material, locations or equipment. o Process descriptions for tracking material, staging waste or recording production disruptions.

Inventory Management • Using the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software platform to reconcile physical activities and material inventory with electronic records for financial reconciliation. ERP transactions to include: o Receiving process material delivered for production use. o Posting production results to record raw material consumption and process output. o Completing movement and transfer journals to reflect cycle count results and to resolve inventory discrepancies. • Ensuring the correct receipt of inventoried materials and consumable supplies. • Allocating and tracking raw materials to ensure FEFO, environmental compliance, and quality traceability. • Defining and managing the program for controlling inventory, including labeling, placards and cycle counts.

Continuous Improvement • Partnering with Quality, Production and Engineering to identify the root cause of raw material quality issues and working cross-functionally to propose and implement solutions that uphold quality, delivery and cost performance. • Generating and assessing proposals for supply chain improvements including changes in suppliers, buying patterns, space allocation and inventory management to support business growth.