Senior material specialist vs senior buyer

Differences between senior material specialist and senior buyer duties and responsibilities

Senior material specialist example responsibilities.

• Lead project to establish a Kanban system for hardware to a key station to reduce cycle time and increase efficiency.
• Work with MRP and suppliers to endure jobsite delivery in Indonesia within the project schedule.
• Support the management and planning of Maximo asset /inventory requirements to balance investment and demand accounting for operation conditions.
• Provide production and delivery KPI reporting matrix for operations and management personnel both internal and externally.

Senior buyer example responsibilities.

• Manage assigned commodities by communicating MRP changes and forecasts to minimize excess inventory to achieve optimum inventory levels.
• Manage and analyze supplier OTD and keep in constant communication with suppliers to help improve delivery.
• Manage ECO process with overseas manufacturing partner.
• Lead Made2Manage ERP system development and implementation to improve effectiveness and efficiency of inventory.
• Manage invoice reconciliations, RFQ management, system database review and regular inventory reporting.
• Manage commodities at establish re-order point levels meeting forecast for production scale-up and revenue goals.
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