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Supply Chain Manager - Winsted, CT
Job Description:
Job Description:
- The Supply Chain Manager directs, and coordinates activities concerned with the production of company products through direct interface with customers/vendors and in-house personnel.
- Lead and manage all procurement and materials management activities including order placement, supplier reduction/evaluation/certification, supplier follow-up, price negotiation, and compliance with government procurement regulations.
- Matrix responsibilities for Production Planning's manufacturing resource-planning activities. These activities need to help achieve division sales and objectives and maintain 100% on-time customer deliveries. Matrix responsibilities for personnel involved with the MRP database to achieve and maintain a high degree of data accuracy, integrity, and ownership.
- Monitors shipping/receiving performance and investigates discrepancies to resolve/eliminate process deficiencies.
- Utilize corporate-developed tracking systems such as plan for every part, and S&OP (sales and operations)- Accountable for location(s) materials metrics and Standards of Performance.
- Help define and implement automated systems to plan and track material flow from customers through procurement to delivery to support a supply chain management strategy.
- Ensure all the material management policies are consistent with the inventory control objectives of the Corporation.
- Work closely with divisional materials personnel to maintain continuity with purchasing and supplier management processes.
- Facilitate corporate purchasing and materials initiatives including common part numbers, supplier-managed inventory, consolidated purchasing agreements, supplier reduction, and supplier quality certifications.
- Advise on supplier-managed inventory or supplier-based contracts with customers.
- Support internal or external audit requirements relative to the planning, procurement, or inventory control functions.
- Prepare and manage the department budget within established guidelines.
- Effectively create and sustain procurement to deliver material and system cost reduction programs.
- Provide professional development for all materials team members. Explain and support company policies and procedures.
- Benchmark world-class supplier management systems and implement best practices as appropriate.
- Actively support and implement lean principles at the division.
- Facilitate Kanban, a materials requirement planning technique, throughout the division.
