By joining Bio-Techne, you’ll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.
Position Summary:
The Buyer-Planner is responsible for direct and indirect material purchasing, forecasting, and inventory management to support day-to-day operations. Essential to this role is an ability to leverage Supply Chain and ERP expertise in a regulated environment to ensure compliance by leveraging supplier relationships, material management, and replenishment planning.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Manages the purchase and production plan to ensure inventory supply through the analysis of consumption, reorder points and order quantities.
- Maintain a forecast and safety stock levels. Incorporate historical sales and forward looking forecasts from commercial teams.
- Submits purchase orders for direct and indirect materials.
- Compile and analyze data to perform price analysis, make source selections, and procurement justifications.
- Maintain a forecast and safety stock levels using historical sales data.
- Manage open orders, including past due production and purchase orders.
- Interact with OEM vendors to manage production and fulfillment schedules.
- Communicate expectations with relevant vendors, quality and customer care teams.
- Monitor and achieve Key Performance Indicators (KPI), including daily review of customer backorders.
- Identify expired Items, salvage useable components, and re-work when possible.
- Maintain ERP data fields used to support purchasing and production planning.
- Assist in launch of new kits.
- Ability to troubleshoot and solve issues of high complexity independently
- Assist in launch of new kits.
- Train and mentor other planners and act as a SME for the planning team.
- May lead projects and new initiatives for the department
- Follow company policies, practices and safety guidelines as outlined
- Demonstrates EPIC values and is recognized by others for this
- Demonstrated ability to complete all duties of the Planner role
- Perform additional duties as assigned