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Columbia Tech - Westborough, MA
posted 2 months ago
Full-time - Mid Level
Westborough, MA
Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services
About the position
The Buyer position at Columbia Tech serves as a critical link in the procurement process, ensuring the availability of materials necessary for manufacturing customer products. This role involves working closely with project managers and production planners to create a materials availability plan, placing purchase orders, managing delivery schedules, and ensuring the timely delivery of quality materials while maintaining inventory levels.
Responsibilities
- Place purchase orders on suppliers and manage delivery schedules.
- Ensure on-time delivery of quality materials.
- Manage inventory to meet service levels and inventory turnover targets.
- Review Buy Reports generated by the ERP system and take appropriate actions on buy, defer, expedite, or cancellation signals.
- Negotiate additional material discounts and terms at the time of order placement.
- Publish supplier open order reports to custom parts suppliers and communicate any issues to production.
- Analyze buy messages to maximize VPA and discount terms agreements with Tier 1 & 2 suppliers.
- Work with Production Planners to ensure material availability to maximize production capacity.
- Review ECNs and recommend material effectivity dates involving new and/or parts substitutions to production planner.
- Generate action plans when criteria for material delivery are not met.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent experience in a technical or business field.
- Strong negotiation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- NAPM or APICS certification (CPIM) is desired.
- Technical knowledge of purchasing, logistics, planning, and master scheduling.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and sound judgment ability.
- Strong working knowledge of ERP systems, particularly Epicor.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with commodity management and project management.
- Familiarity with manufacturing operations.
