Supply Chain Manager
AerotekSupply Chain Manager
Job Description
The Supply Chain Manager serves as the team lead overseeing multiple supply chain functions, including purchasing, demand management, and inventory planning. This role provides operational oversight, execution, and decision-making for the planning and replenishment of distribution, parts, and facility inventories. The position manages purchase order placement
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, contract administration, inventory allocation, and drop-ship purchasing for assigned business lines, either directly or through a team of subordinates.
Responsibilities
• Plan, organize, and control activities related to planning, purchasing, and demand management functions.
• Lead and oversee the work of the planning, purchasing, and demand management teams to ensure effective execution of supply chain activities.
• Ensure departmental performance meets or exceeds required KPIs and continuously monitor results.
• Prepare, maintain, and update instructions and processes related to planning, purchasing, demand management, and supplier quality.
• Implement, oversee, and monitor procurement reporting systems to meet company requirements.
• Manage a small team across stockroom, logistics, purchasing, and scheduling functions.
• Oversee all activities related to procurement of commodities from initial intent to purchase through delivery.
• Arrange for disposal and disposition of surplus materials in accordance with company policies.
• Develop and maintain purchase order processes, including procedures for monitoring and following up on shipment dates.
• Develop and maintain expedite and late order procedures to support planned and unplanned demand.
• Oversee order acknowledgement processes, both electronic and manual, to ensure accuracy and timeliness.
• Ensure effective communication among all functional groups within the organizations supply chain operations.
• Act as a subject matter expert for the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process.
• Coordinate efforts between departments to resolve issues and streamline supply chain processes.
• Obtain and analyze causal data to support forecast accuracy for designated business lines.
• Apply advanced technical knowledge and extensive experience in supply chain to improve material forecasting and stock plan establishment based on historical data and business intelligence.
• Define and use metrics that facilitate continuous improvement of planning processes and business results.
• Troubleshoot, resolve, and optimize supply chain processes, introducing and championing new ideas and concepts that improve efficiency and performance.
• Lead supply chain projects from initiation through completion, ensuring objectives are met.
• Maintain multiple communication channels to optimize product flow through the supply chain.
• Identify supply chain risks, capacity constraints, and improvement opportunities and develop mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with repair centers, sales, marketing, reliability, and customer support teams to maintain productive communication with customers and enhance customer service.
• Manage demand recovery by restoring or ensuring the supply of products that are critical to customer requirements and production schedules.
• Drive delivery improvement initiatives focused on the portions of the customers supply chain causing shortages.
• Implement delinquency prevention measures with internal suppliers to proactively prevent late deliveries and ensure supplier commitments meet customer need dates.
• Ensure the best possible customer on-time delivery (COTD) performance based on customer required dates, targeting greater than 90% for defined parameters.
• Conduct MRP analysis and liaise with planning, purchasing, and front office departments to manage hot lists and safety stock levels.
• Coordinate with OEMs to improve deliveries in collaboration with the procurement team.
• Ensure optimal lead times for repair shop requirements and provide accurate lead times for RFQs an