Material Scheduler

Description Material Scheduler Buckman – Memphis, TN

Location:

Memphis, TN

Language:
English

Travel: up to 5%

Buckman is a privately held, global specialty chemical company with headquarters in Memphis, TN, USA, committed to safeguarding the environment, maintaining safety in the workplace, and promoting sustainable development. Buckman delivers exceptional service and innovative solutions to our customers globally in the pulp and paper, leather, and water treatment sectors to help boost productivity, reduce risk, improve product quality, and provide a measurable return on investment.

This role contributes to success by ensuring optimal raw material planning, scheduling and resource coordination across the two North American manufacturing sites using SAP and business analytics tools. The goal is to schedule raw materials that adhere to the production schedules for each manufacturing site, ensuring on‑time‑in‑full delivery that ensures efficient inventory levels and exceed order fulfillment expectations while supporting financial objectives.

This role partners closely with Procurement, Supply Planning, Production Scheduling, Logistics, and suppliers to ensure seamless supply network planning and production schedule accuracy at manufacturing sites.

Outcome:
Ensure on-time-in-full supply of raw materials, packaging, and inventory items.

• Confirm item/container availability for each order
• Manage Open Purchase Order Report to track incoming materials
• Place accurate and timely orders per ISO standards

Expedite and resolve supplier issues to meet production schedules

Outcome:
Maintain accurate and responsive inventory systems.

• Use SAP to manage or adjust raw material orders for both NA sites and any tolling
• Develop and manage raw material safety stock strategies with Supply Planning
• Identify and report expired or slow-moving raw materials or packaging

Apply analytical tools to forecast and resolve inventory or supplier reliability issues

Outcome:
Achieve high accuracy in annual inventory counts.

• Perform data entry, recount, and reconciliation activities
• Participate in routine cycle and annual counts.

Outcome:
Optimize inventory levels to meet demand and reduce waste.

• Review demand and lead times periodically
• Set and maintain safety stock and reorder points
• Manager planner number assignments

Outcome:
Align material availability with production schedule.

• Review and validate planned purchase orders
• Attend daily production meetings and update availability to manufacturing teams
• Escalate supply chain issues impacting customer satisfaction
• Generate monthly performance reports – Supplier OTIF
• Support accounting and special projects
• Interface with Procurement to resolve order issues
• Participate in problem‑solving teams

• Education Requirements:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in Business or Operations Management
• Job
  
  Experience:
  
  4 - 6 years
• APICS certification is a plus
• Proficiency in Material Scheduling, Procurement and supply chain terminology
• SAP or ERP platform experience

• Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Communicates Effectively - Developing and delivering multi‑mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
• Action Oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm
• Nimble Learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder
• Being Resilient - Rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations

We appreciate the interest of recruitment partners, but we are not engaging external agencies for this role.