EDI​/Agility Buyer

Overview

Sanmina Corporation (Nasdaq: SANM) is a leading integrated manufacturing solutions provider serving the fastest-growing segments of the global Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) market. Recognized as a technology leader, Sanmina Corporation provides end-to-end manufacturing solutions, delivering superior quality and support to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) primarily in the communications networks, defense and aerospace, industrial and semiconductor systems, medical, multimedia, computing and storage, automotive and clean technology sectors.

Sanmina Corporation has facilities strategically located in key regions throughout the world.

The EDI/Agility Buyer will be responsible for managing all activities of suppliers related to procurement and acquisition of materials and services to support the company plan at optimum cost, quality and delivery. Examine purchase requirements and shortages, obtained quotations, and examined bids to negotiate best prices. Work with engineers and suppliers for alternative manufacturing sources and cost reductions. Research products, source vendors, and negotiate price, terms, and delivery of a wide variety of technical products including capacitors, resistors, inductors, transformers, relays, fuses, diodes, IC’s, cables, connectors, etc to effectively ensure maximum quality and profit.

Expedite and update open-order status reports for on time delivery. Serves as a liaison between manufacturing specialists and suppliers regarding late, damaged, and/or short orders. Reconcile discrepancies between PO receipts and Accounts Payable. Maintain data integrity of PO and parts databases: management of MRP planning data, reviewing MRP Action messages, and placing/rescheduling/canceling orders with suppliers as required. Manage discrepant material disposition and recovery plans.

Coordinate purchasing details with suppliers regarding pricing revisions, order cancellation, discontinued items, acceptable substitutes, delivery date revisions, invoice reconciliation. Expedite shortages to meet manufacturing need dates and update commit dates on weekly shortage reports. Review requisitions for accuracy, completeness and prepare and process assigned purchase orders. Ensure materials are pipelined and in stock to meet company requirements.

Operate flexibility programs effectively by maintaining control metrics with required parameters and supporting the plant with its requirements. The employee is responsible for adding parts to the program, to improve the agility spend, as well as helping to validate that the Blanket POs are placed in a timely manner at the correct price, all based on the negotiations and direct dealing with the suppliers.

In turn, the employee is in charge of negotiating prices, and terms to seek to add parts to the agility program in search of generating positive PPVs and obtaining the most beneficial inventory turns and terms for Sanmina. The employee is responsible and leader for carrying out reviews with suppliers by Quarter that are within the Agility program and is the spokesperson for complaints, problems and supplier solutions.

The Employee is responsible for ensuring that plant part numbers potentially identified to be added in the Agility program are correctly loaded with the correct attributes in Oracle, and maintained so when the information is released to the supplier the items contains the correct signal on a weekly basis.

Bachelor degree and/or APIC certification

• 8+ years purchasing experience / supply chain related experience in procuring electronic and electro-mechanical components, raw materials, and other production supplies including demonstrated strong negotiation skills with all levels of suppliers and internal interfaces.
• Interfacing with the Supply Chain organization and suppliers to increases participation in inventory management programs.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, including V-lookup's and Pivot Tables. Power point, Word.
• CM background with direct customer interface.
• Good communication, writing skills and detail-oriented.
• Excellent analytical, organizational and problem-solving abilities.
• Skilled in coordinating and prioritizing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Able to function in a very fast paced environment and can adapt to changes.
• Teamwork and seek for continuous improvement.
• Decision maker.
• Purchasing Process knowledge.
• MRP Knowledge (Oracle desirable).
• Knowing ECOMPRAS (will be trained).
• Purchasing KPIs - New buys execution, Weekly PO Reschedules (Pull, Push, Cancel, Reconfirm, RDL (Receiving discrepancies), Past due POs, MRB, RTV, AP issues (Credit holds with suppliers)).
• ECO process / RoHS knowledge.

• End-to-end implementation for items in all Agility programs (RTF, SMI, VCI, JIT).
• Run reports for all Agility programs (RTF, SMI, VCI, JIT).
• Review proposed agility candidates and implement vendor managed inventory options to increase agility…