Job ID: V-39561
Our client is a multinational manufacturing company specialising in animal health and nutrition, particularly food palatability. The company is always introducing new products and services with research expertise, technical support, and unparalleled customer service in Thailand. We are looking for a Factory Materials Buyer to be responsible for planning and purchasing, and scheduling deliveries of inbound materials to the factory to align with production plans and customer needs.
Responsibilities:
- Process requisitions, place purchase orders, expedite and track orders
- Perform material planning activities for parts sourced from external suppliers
- Maintain and ensure the integrity of ERP material data
- Maintain order status information from suppliers to keep operations teams updated with current delivery information
- Effectively expedite orders to meet customer delivery requests, avoid line down situations, and minimise air transportation costs
- Manage scheduling of direct materials
- Plan production work orders to meet customer delivery requests, prevent line down situation, maximise line capacity and efficiency
- Hold monthly reviews of forecasts with key suppliers to ensure continuity
- Resolve all invoice holds in a timely manner
- Manage delivery and quality complaints to resolve supplier performance issues
- Support cost reduction, reduce supply-chain lead time, optimise working capital, quality, and delivery
- Participate in process improvement projects using continuous improvement techniques