Buyer Planner

About the role

Location: 4800 Deramus Ave, Kansas City, MO 64120

You will collaborate with internal teams including the Supply Chain Manager, Operations, Quality, Engineering, the Sourcing Manager and Operational Excellence teams. You will also interact directly with external suppliers and other Wabtec sites to ensure smooth fulfillment, inventory management and sourcing processes.

You will manage the buying process for a defined set of products and maintain compliance with Wabtec sourcing policies. You will interface with external suppliers and internal Wabtec companies to ensure quality, cost effectiveness, and on-time delivery are achieved. Your daily efforts will ensure consistent supply of buy parts to support production demand, inventory optimization, minimized premium transportation costs and improved supplier performance. You will also collaborate with the Sourcing Commodity Manager on cost-out initiatives and supplier selection to support the commodity sourcing strategy.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate MRP to understand buy part supply/demand signals and create purchase orders.
• Establish appropriate stocking strategies and maintain buy part planning parameters.
• Manage supplier relationships to ensure purchase orders are acknowledged, PO dates are maintained and shipments are executed on-time.
• Expedite supplier parts when unexpected shortages occur or demand is short cycled.
• Work closely with suppliers on recovery plans.
• Manage new supplier set-up and supplier maintenance (HICX portal).
• Manage ERP Sourcing Rules and Quotation accuracy to facilitate Auto-PO, where applicable.
• Daily and effective communication with production on shortages and recovery plans.
• Manage transportation costs working to avoid premium air shipments.
• Right-size inventory by reducing excess inventory and evaluate shortages.
• Engage with Quality and Engineering to address supplier non-conforming parts.
• Assess supplier capabilities and make recommendations for supplier selection.
• Collaborate and support the Sourcing Manager in inflation/deflation goals and commodity strategy execution.
• Serve as the primary accounts payable/receivable contact for your supply base.
• Support warehouse by ensuring healthy inventory levels are maintained to meet demand.
• Occasional buy part inventory counts, executing physical inventory adjustments in the ERP system.
• Maintain key product indicators in fulfillment, planning and inventory.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college in Supply Chain Management,