Specialist, PSI

Overview

When you join Kyocera Document Solutions America, Inc. you are joining an organization that is deeply rooted in the Philosophy of “doing what is right as a human being”. Through this Philosophy, our employees are passionate about providing best in class customer service through efficiency, accountability, and a sense of urgency all while putting knowledge to work to drive change.

In addition, we’re a Great Place to Work… and we really mean it! Kyocera Document Solutions America, Inc. has been officially certified as a Great Place to Work since 2022. An organization earns this distinction when its employees have expressed their trust in the people they work for, have pride in what they do and enjoy the people they work with.

As a PSI (Purchasing/Sales/Inventory) Specialist, you will play a central role in the hands-on planning, execution, and optimization of Kyocera’s PSI process. This process supports both the US market as well as our 4 sister sales companies:
Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and Chile. You will ensure there is proper alignment with global standards, lead times from suppliers, supply chain effects, and required timelines across the PSI process. Your mission is to work collaboratively with demand planners and purchasing staff to create accurate sales forecasts, country specific purchase plans, analysis of plan results, and tight compliance with best practices across the group.

You will proactively identify risks and implement preventive measures, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and continuous process improvement in all aspects of PSI execution. You will intervene as needed to correct deviations, drive continuous improvement, and facilitate best practice sharing across the group. Your scope includes our 5 sales companies in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and Chile and our 10 subsidiaries located in the US.

Your structured, analytical, and cross-functional approach will help bridge planning and execution, contributing to the overall operational excellence of our PSI process.

The chance to do something meaningful, to challenge yourself, to be a part of change in an industry, to influence change doesn’t come around every day.

• PSI Planning & Execution

• Collaborate with demand planners and purchasing staff to create, review, refine, and align monthly PSI plans for KDA.
• Monitor sales and purchasing actuals versus planned forecast, analyze root causes of variances, and drive corrective and preventive actions.
• Develop and utilize monitoring tools and dashboards to detect potential issues in sales and purchasing before they materialize.
• Track on-hand and in-transit inventory, considering multiple logistics routes and lead times, and support timely and accurate procurement.
• Analyze lead times, logistics bottlenecks, and inventory flows to support continuous improvement in purchasing and inventory management.
• Propose and implement process improvements to enhance S and P accuracy and inventory optimization.
• Coordinate and execute inventory transfers between distribution centers and sales companies.

• PSI Governance & Oversight

• Oversee and review monthly PSI submissions from regional sales companies; validate data and provide feedback to local sales forecast (S) and purchase plan (P) owners.
• Compare actuals versus plans for S and P, identify discrepancies, and drive corrective actions.
• Enforce PSI submission timelines and ensure compliance with KDC’s global schedule.
• Exert control and leadership to standardize and optimize PSI methodologies and best practices across sales companies.
• Proactively monitor and direct corrective actions for any deviations or risks in PSI planning and execution.

• Aged Inventory Management

• Continuously monitor aged inventory and identify at-risk items across KDA, sales companies and subsidiaries.
• Work closely with KDA’s Marketing and Sales to develop and implement proactive sell-through and promotional strategies for slow-moving or excess stock.
• Track and report progress of corrective actions for aged inventory, escalating to business leaders as needed.

• Data Analysis & Reporting

• Develop and maintain group-wide dashboards and analytics for PSI performance monitoring.
• Provide…