Job Description
- Collaborate with plants, suppliers, and logistics to ensure a seamless flow of inventory.
- Coordinate and follow-up with suppliers, operations and warehousing regarding late orders, material outages, and/or lead special projects.
- Manage purchase order/work order size based on service commitments, existing inventory on hand, and lead times.
- Manage lead times to drive operational efficiency and improve service.
- Manage inventory turns and safety stock parameters, minimize surplus/obsolescence, and provide consistent input into workload plans.
- Understand plant/supplier capacity, lead-time and operational plans, to ensure proper inventory is maintained.
- Collaborate with demand planning to understand the impact of forecast changes and translate demand plan into inventory needs.
- Communicate with peers and escalate to leadership team when potential supply issues arise.
- Utilize system-generated reports to determine priorities, to identify and resolve potential issues, and to confirm/communicate results.
- Create ad hoc reporting when needed. Perform weekly root cause analysis.
- Train new hires and team in other levels.
- Bachelor's degree: Engineering, Administration
- 2-4 years on similar role/function.
- Experience communicating with internal and external business partners and cross-functional teams at various levels.
- Experience applying concepts of basic statistics.
- Ability to handle changing priorities and use good judgment in stressful situations.
- Office Windows: Word, Excel, Power Point (Advanced)
- AS400, SAP (Advanced)
- Proactive
- Analitycal
- Outspoken
- Responsible
- Effective Communication
- Leadership
- Work under pressure
- English: 90%
Medline Industries, LP is an equal opportunity employer. Medline evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.