Purchasing Agent / Buyer

Purchasing Agent / Buyer

The Purchasing Agent / Buyer will be based in Fontana CA, reporting to the Purchasing Manager. This role will be coordinating activities involved with procuring direct materials, components, and equipment.

Responsibilities :

• Maintaining relations with suppliers.
• Placing orders for necessary raw materials and purchased parts according to the requirements of the production.
• Receiving and handling confirmations.
• Checking purchase orders and modifying them according to changes in the production plan with the help of the Shortage List and the Open Purchase Order List.
• Tracking shipments, urging them if needed.
• Regular, weekly check of the stocks, avoiding overstock.
• Minimizing the risk of obsolescence with the help of the weekly check of the obsolete report.
• Correspondence with the freight forwarders, warehouses, and in case organizing the transportation.
• Dealing with claims, settling debit and credit issues.
• Filing and recording all necessary documents.
• Checking the inventory of critical materials (personally if needed) according to the Shortage List.
• Getting in touch with the right warehouse personnel and having the discrepancy modified if there is any inventory discrepancies.
• Handling purchasing data privacy.
• Assuring all active components according to production needs, in time, for the accord price in the request.
• Reviews requisitions and MRP output.
• Confers with vendors to obtain product information such as price, availability, and delivery schedule.
• Orders, reschedules, and cancels material based on requisitions and MRP output.
• Maintains procurement records such as items purchased, costs, delivery, and inventories.
• Manages supplier to price, delivery, and quality expectations and escalates when appropriate.
• Approves invoices for payment.
• Investigation inventory levels.
• Monitors the movement of materials through the production cycle.
• Conducts quarterly supplier reviews.
• Maintains procurement records, reports, and metrics.

Qualifications :

What youll receive for the great work you provide :

Pay Range (Applicable to California) $55,800.00 USD - $76,700.00 USD Annual

Job Category : Global Procurement & Supply Chain

Is Sponsorship Available? No

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