Minimum requirements:
- Matric. / Grade 12 certificate
- National Diploma in Purchasing or equivalent
- Computer literate (MS Office) Advance Excel
- ERP System
- 35 years related experience in an Engineering manufacturing environment
- Project Management experience
- Technical knowledge/experience will be advantageous
Understanding of the following:
- MS Office
- Baan
- ERP equivalent
- MRP logic
- The Bill of Materials (BOM) and the impact on order creation.
- Ability to read analyze and interpret general business periodicals technical procedures or company regulations.
- Ability to write reports business correspondence and procedure manuals.
- Effectively present information and respond to questions.
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts interest commissions proportions percentages area circumference and volume.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for purchasing and procuring of OE service parts and consumables at the right price on time at the right cost
- Manage production orders on the system.
- Place orders.
- Confirm orders.
- Change dates.
- Update order details (quantities suppliers prices etc.).
- Receipt orders.
- Troubleshoot orders (cancel partial receipt fix incorrect pricing etc.).
- Manage orders logically.
- Calculate expected requirements (based on current stock levels the critical list and the production schedule).
- Predict batch size requirements (based on what is needed by production).
- Gauge and manage pricing (or PPVs) based on knowledge of material part size machining requirement etc.
- Responsible to explain the data presented (overdue purchase orders buffer levels critical list velocity cage account etc.).
- Communicate changing requirements with supplier.
- Empower suppliers to manage themselves (supply them with supporting information) (communicate and manage around draw off rate).
- Work with planners to coordinate production based on lower level availability.
- Create and manage matrices to measure own performance
- Understand and manage according to planner codes and planning types.
- Manage subcontracting
- Negotiate subcontracting prices based on knowledge of material part size machining requirement etc.
- Manage the quotation process.
- Manage lead times.
- Understand and manage the link between production orders and purchase orders.
- Understand the difference in time requirements between complete machine balancing and reworks.
- Manage rework orders in terms of part receipts and physical part location.
- Adherence of all HSE and housekeeping requirements
- Adhere to Duty of Care Policy at all times