The Buyer is responsible for the timely procurement of assigned commodities, communicating with vendors, and ensuring on-time delivery to customers. The position involves ordering materials, reviewing requisitions, and analyzing supplier RFQ's.
Requirements
- Timely ordering of required materials and requisition review
- ERP system maintenance of parameters such as supplier lead times
- Confers with vendors to obtain product or service information
- Estimates values according to knowledge of market price
- Determines method of procurement such as direct purchase or bid
- Creates, solicits, and analyzes supplier RFQ’s
- Compares prices, specifications, and delivery dates and awards contracts to bidders or places orders with suppliers
- Reviews bid proposals and negotiates contracts within budgetary limitations and scope of authority
- Maintains procurement records
- Discusses defective or unacceptable goods or services with inspection or quality control personnel, vendors, and others
- Expedites delivery of goods to users
- International buying and negotiating
- Verifies nomenclature and specifications of purchase requests
- Verifies invoices from suppliers with bids and purchase orders and approves invoices for payment
- Negotiates pricing and delivery
- Uses MRP to initiate and change purchase orders
- Collaborates with Quality and suppliers to disposition off-standard purchased material
- Sends copies of updated material specifications to vendors
- Participates in various continuous improvement projects as required