Purchasing Agent

Job Description

Job Description

Oriental Motor is a global private company, founded in 1885 in Japan. Headquartered in Ueno Japan, today Oriental Motor is a global leader in sub fractional horsepower electric motors and controls, with sales offices located in N. America, Europe, and Asia. Oriental Motor designs, manufactures, and sells fractional horsepower electric motors and controls for the automation and motion control markets. Our customers are today's leaders in their industries from Medical to Semiconductor, Packaging, Conveyors, Robots, Automated Guided Vehicles, and everything in between.

Our goals are to foster each and every employee so they can continuously contribute to the growth and strengthening of our company. In return, we offer a wide range of career paths, training, and benefits fostering our commitment to our employee's careers. We provide benefit programs that align with our employee's personal health care, well-being, and financial objectives including a 401(k) program, Dental Insurance, Health Insurance, Vision Insurance, Paid Time Off, and more.

Primary Duty :

Responsible for maintaining a stable production product supply from existing and / or new vendors in order to meet daily production requirements or other procurement requirements through the proper evaluation of material requirements in both finished goods and components.

Essential Job Functions :

• Accurately and timely process all purchase orders, Special Delivery Requests, MRP(safety stock) replenishment orders, parts requests from factories and supplies;
• Accurately and timely schedule work orders for production;
• Communicate with factories (vendors) to plan shipping (production) schedules in timely manner.
• Monitor and record invoices and order received dates, and process the required documents timely;
• Monitor freight forwarder performance, analyze problems, communicate information to forwarders and negotiate improvements as appropriate;
• Maintain optimal inventory to prevent stock shortage;
• Review daily market and contract inventory usage and order replenishment by cut-off time;
• Identify Material Control problems at an early stage and communicate findings to Supervisor along with corrective action or recommendations;
• Consult with supervision on material management decisions outside of standard operating procedures;
• Prepare and work with other departments for monthly inventory and obsolete;
• Communicate sales department about any delays / changes in customer orders;
• Process customs activities (ex. preparing HTS codes, preparing and submitting 10+2 data).

Collateral Duties :

Perform other tasks and special projects as needed.

Language :

English

Qualifications :

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job function on site and communicate with other associates and supervisors effectively. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Requirements :

Two years college curriculum or Three or more years of experience interfacing with material control, distribution or production systems software in the completion of day-to-day work activities;

Knowledge of order processing systems, spreadsheet software, and database software

Computer skills; Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Access, Operation Systems