Buyer II - ERP/MRP

About the role

Alliance North America (ANA) is a recognized industry leader and 2025 Top Workplace in Manufacturing, established in 2017 as the sole North American supplier of AIRMAN Power Generators, AIRMAN Air Compressors, and ANA’s patented EBOSS® Hybrid Energy System and Smart load bank system. ANA’s mission is to Make their World Easier by providing responsive customer service, maintaining a large parts inventory with over 90% of orders shipping within 24 hours, and delivering world‑class support. The Buyer II position supports ANA’s growing team by managing supply planning, purchase order execution, and purchasing principles to ensure on‑time material availability. The role serves as a critical bridge between Purchasing, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, IT, and suppliers, driving the transition to a data‑driven, exception‑based purchasing model through full utilization of ANA’s ERP/MRP and Business Intelligence capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Execute purchasing responsibilities for assigned commodities, suppliers, materials, or programs in accordance with established sourcing and commodity strategies.
• Maintain appropriate material availability to support manufacturing requirements while minimizing excess and obsolete inventory.
• Review MRP requirements and convert system demand into appropriate purchasing actions.
• Manage purchase orders, supplier schedules, acknowledgments, lead times, delivery commitments, and material exceptions.
• Identify and resolve potential shortages before they impact manufacturing operations.
• Work directly with suppliers to improve delivery, lead time, flexibility, cost, and overall supply‑chain performance via supplier scorecards.
• Support inventory optimization through appropriate order quantities, safety‑stock strategies, lead‑time management, and replenishment parameters.
• Serve as the Purchasing and Supply Chain subject‑matter expert for ERP/MRP and Business Intelligence, supporting development, implementation, optimization, and continuous improvement of an integrated, data‑driven planning and decision‑support environment.
• Translate business requirements into scalable system functionality, standardized planning processes, automated analytics, and actionable management information that improves material availability, inventory performance, supplier execution, cost management, and supply‑chain visibility.
• Partner cross‑functionally with Purchasing, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, IT, Quality, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into effective ERP/MRP workflows, planning logic, system parameters, data structures, controls, and reporting solutions.
• Evaluate current Purchasing and material‑planning processes and lead improvements that increase system utilization, automation, data integrity, planning accuracy, and operational efficiency while reducing reliance on manual transactions and disconnected spreadsheets.
• Support the development, validation, governance, and continuous optimization of critical MRP planning logic and master‑data parameters, including supplier lead times, order quantities, minimum order quantities, safety stock, reorder points, supplier assignments, purchasing calendars, material classifications, inventory policies, and other planning attributes.
• Participate in ERP/MRP system design, testing, validation, implementation, enhancement, and continuous improvement, ensuring system functionality accurately supports Purchasing and Supply Chain business requirements across ANA operations.
• Develop and optimize Business Intelligence dashboards, automated reporting, analytical models, and exception‑management tools that transform ERP/MRP data into actionable operational and strategic intelligence.
• Establish automated visibility into critical Purchasing and Supply Chain performance indicators, including supplier delivery and quality, purchase price variance, inventory levels and turns, material shortages, past‑due purchase orders, supplier lead‑time performance, capacity and supply risk, premium freight, forecast accuracy, excess and obsolete inventory, and cost reduction/cost avoidance.
• Develop exception‑based management reporting that proactively identifies material, supplier, inventory, cost, and planning risks, enabling Purchasing resources to focus on the highest‑priority issues requiring action.
• Support the development of executive‑level BI dashboards and management reporting providing timely visibility to Cost, Quality, Delivery, Inventory, and Supply Risk, enabling fact‑based decision‑making and organizational accountability.
• Establish standardized ERP/MRP and BI processes, reporting methodologies, and performance definitions across manufacturing locations to create a single, reliable source of truth for Purchasing and Supply Chain performance.
• Drive the evolution from transactional and reactive Purchasing toward a predictive, exception‑based, data‑driven operating model, leveraging ERP/MRP discipline and Business Intelligence to improve planning accuracy, supplier performance, inventory optimization, and overall Supply Chain effectiveness.
• Develop automated visibility into critical Purchasing and Supply Chain KPIs: Supplier On‑Time Delivery, Supplier Quality Performance, Purchase Price Variance, Inventory Levels, Inventory Turns, Material Shortages, Past‑Due Purchase Orders, Supplier Lead‑Time Performance, Supplier Capacity/Risk, Premium Freight, Forecast versus Actual Demand, Excess and Obsolete Inventory, Cost Reduction / Cost Avoidance.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required:

• 5+ years experience in manufacturing Purchasing, Supply Chain, Material Planning, Production Control, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years strong working knowledge of multiple ERP systems and applications.
• Strong working knowledge of ERP/MRP principles and manufacturing material flow.
• Demonstrated understanding of purchasing, inventory management, supplier management, production planning, and replenishment principles.
• Strong analytical, critical‑thinking, and root‑cause problem‑solving capabilities.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and data‑analysis skills.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze large or complex datasets and convert information into actionable business decisions.
• Ability to understand the relationship between demand, inventory, lead time, supply, capacity, and manufacturing requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively across Purchasing, Manufacturing, Operations, Finance, Engineering, Quality, and IT.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced manufacturing environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in CES, Business, or a related field of study.
• Experience supporting an ERP/MRP implementation, migration, transformation, enhancement, or optimization initiative.
• Experience with Power BI or comparable Business Intelligence and visualization platforms.
• Experience developing dashboards, automated reporting, scorecards, or analytical models.
• Working knowledge of ERP reporting tools, relational data structures, data models, or comparable analytical technologies.
• Experience developing or supporting supply‑chain KPI reporting.
• Experience with master‑data governance and ERP/MRP planning‑parameter management.
• Experience within a high‑growth, high‑volume, multi‑