Supply Specialist Job Description
Supply Specialist Duties & Responsibilities
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Supply Specialist Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Supply Specialist
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Education for Supply Specialist
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Employers hiring for the supply specialist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and High School Degree in Education, Business, Supply Chain Management, Graduate Education, Engineering, Management, Graduate, Associates, Business/Administration, Finance
Skills for Supply Specialist
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Supply Specialist Examples
Supply Specialist Job Description
- Communication- Executes effective and transparent communication internally, externally and between different units
- SCM Processes- Material Requirements Planning (MRP) or Capacity Requirements Planning (CPR) process knowledge is preferred
- Safety- Performs assigned tasks in a safe manner that will encourage others to exercise safety in their normal daily activities
- Monthly accurate reporting of OTD, supplier quality performance, cost savings and safety metrics and KPI's for the analysis and management of local processes
- Process Audits -Conducts process audits to ensure the conformance of working practices with established processes and procedures
- Identifies any purchase orders which do not meet department replenishment criteria for minimal investment and/or logistic load fill
- Understanding manufacturing drawings, standard specs, and quality requirements in order to operate as the liaison between suppliers and the Quality and Engineering Department to ensure compliance and timely resolution of issues
- Managing multiple projects from initiation through planning, execution, controlling, and closing
- Driving effective and timely communication between upstream and downstream stakeholders to ensure optimal supply chain performance, agility and flexibility
- Managing multi-level bill of materials thru the entire WIP process
- Consistently speaks the Truth
- Offers objective and timely feedback to peers and colleagues
- Takes accountability for results rather than looking for excuses
- Expresses his or her views in a productive yet non-threatening way
- Microsoft Excel and Word at a Beginners Level
- Leading the business units drive to proactively seek out and champion opportunities for improvement and innovation within the supply chain and in the relationships between the supply chain and other business functions
Supply Specialist Job Description
- Accurately check par stock areas for expired products
- Coordinate ordering and placement of regulated items that have been identified by the Pharmacy to be readily available
- Receive incoming materials, supplies and equipment
- Coordinate the movement of active ingredients (AI) from AI warehouses to production locations for export
- Manage the inventory of labels at the AI warehouse
- Maintains an ongoing relationship with assigned suppliers to monitor and improve supplier performance
- Analyzes actual material use and maintains replacement rate data for variable usage parts
- Leads continuous cost reduction/value improvement activity
- Proactively monitors planning parameters and inventory position to ensure a continuity of supply to the production line
- Investigates availability of suppliers and materials in the marketplace
- OE competence
- Responsible for procurement of assigned items and executing buying strategies in accordance with agreed upon material buying plans at the optimum cost/quality relationship
- Financial Responsibility- Supports the Procurement Category Manager for overall Procurement delivery and performance for the NA category
- Complexity of Role- Requires knowledge and experience across the key Supply categories
- Advance level knowledge of all MS Office Programs such as Outlook, Word, Excel, Access and Power Point
- Possess a good understanding of Procure to Pay within a high volume transactional environment
Supply Specialist Job Description
- Coordinates items for shipment by packaging, marking and preparing bills of loading and/or other documents as required
- Fills supply requests and delivers those supplies to the requisitioning department
- Unloads equipment, inspects verifies, accepts or rejects supplies and materials from delivery trucks and stage in appropriate area for processing
- Be a key actor onto the “European Non-Current Segment Strategy” definition and implementation
- Maintains accurate spreadsheets or databases - highlighting anomalies in terms of lack of receipts, wrong details, and presences of all legal requirements
- Standardize processes and implement routines along with Table of Authority as per Group directives/instructions
- Analyze operations pertaining to freight spend within North America including the handling of day-to-day issues (freight quotes, claims, ) by working directly with our plants and warehouses
- Support monthly Supply Chain Key Performance Indicators (“KPI’s”), analyzing root cause then implementing corrective actions and tracking the improvements
- Review and clear Carrier freight invoices pending, monitor Carrier selection and challenge rates as necessary
- Conveys materials and items from receiving or production areas to storage or other designated areas
- Possess good working knowledge of process improvement processes and methodology
- Responsible for issue tracking ensuring all records are up to date according to policy
- Background in utilities, SAP and/or Transmission is preferred
- Bachelors Degree and 1-3 years general business or supply chain related experience
- Analytical skills specific to Procurement (Supplier Performance, Cost BOMs)
- Must have excellent communication skills, including verbal, written, and presentation skills including the ability to present to Sr
Supply Specialist Job Description
- 10% of work at loading dock
- Maintain supply chain master data and partner with the adjacent functions to ensure SAP is used appropriately and functions appropriately for all SCM-related tasks
- Evaluate SCM practices for optimizations that improve accuracy, increase responsiveness to operations, and enhance financial responsibility
- Partner with suppliers to drive improvements in their performance in On Time, In Full, and First Pass Quality
- Use data and metrics to identify improvement needs and measure effectiveness of changes
- Work collaboratively with adjacent functions to influence and drive E2E performance and actively apply continuous improvement methodologies
- Enables supply transformation activities as applicable
- Leads and participates on teams focused on evolving and continuously improving the business
- Train other employees in these or other supply chain management processes for development purposes
- Complete production acknowledgments in accordance to ISO procedures
- Creative and analytical thinker, fast learner, and great problem solving skills
- Must have knowledge of the Army retail supply system, technical supply operations, and established policies
- Analyze financial, operational, and expense data from all areas including freight payment and audit, SDC and transportation service performance, and expense audits
- Support development of various KPI reports covering key aspects of our Supply Chain functions
- Monitor and measure vendor and service provider compliance using existing systems and reporting
- Work with stores to resolve warehouse and delivery issues
Supply Specialist Job Description
- Facilitate the onboarding process for all approved/vetted partners, including education, training and troubleshooting launch
- Perform regular publisher account reviews
- Day to day contact for active publisher partners—responding to inbound requests, questions and concerns
- Provide exceptional customer service, demonstrating analytical and problem solving abilities
- Surface, communicate, and drive reported issues to resolution working closely with the CBX support and product teams
- Serve as an escalation point for the Platform Associate, helping to resolve issues beyond the scope of their role
- Provide support with assigned custom projects requiring one-off investigation and troubleshooting
- Provide support for commercial offer implementation
- Ensures regular communications are held with key suppliers, maintains close liaison and assures accurate supplier and product information
- Responds to seasonal and contractual demand fluctuations
- Knowledge of procurement/contracts principles and terminology basics of contracts administration and finance or accounting
- Ability to perform duties that require close attention to detail, to prioritize workload and follow tasks through to completion
- Highly-skilled user of Microsoft Office products, specifically Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook
- Prepares and/or attend sensitive briefings
- Perform trend analysis on all types of equipment to include weapons & COM/EL parts
- Requires NIPR, SIPR & CENTRIXS access