Procurement Specialist
Required skills
- Procurement Specialist
- materials
- production
- supplier performance
- inventory accuracy
- manufacturing
- analytical
- organized
- supply chain challenges
- raw material demand
Nice to have
- Microsoft Office
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- SAP
Role summary
A Procurement Specialist is needed in Thief River Falls, MN, for an onsite role in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. The specialist will ensure material availability for production, manage supplier performance, and maintain inventory accuracy. Key responsibilities include analyzing raw material demand, tracking supply and delivery, assessing supplier performance against quality, delivery, and cost goals, and communicating with vendors. The role also involves analyzing shipping forecasts, preparing variance analyses, reviewing cycle counts, assigning part change notices, placing purchase orders, managing shortage reports, and preparing SIOP/MPS comparisons. A Bachelor's Degree in Business or a related field and 3+ years of experience are required. Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, and SAP are preferred.
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
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