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Benchmark Electronics, Inc.
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Job Location: Rochester, MN
Job Type: Full-Time
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Job Title
Supply Chain Analyst II
Job ID(Requisition ID): 596
Job Summary
We Bring Our Customers Products to Life Benchmark Electronics Incorporated, NYSE: BHE, is a global Fortune 1000 electronics manufacturer with more than 10,000 employees in 9 countries on 4 continents. Youve seen our work at the Olympics, the Super Bowl, and in Hollywood. Americas women and men in uniform count on our technical skills to help ensure our country remains safe and the commercial aircraft crisscrossing our skies use products we manufacture. Products we engineer live inside some of the worlds fastest computers and are saving lives every day in hospitals and surgical suites around the globe. As a leading electronics manufacturing solution provider, we identify and work with the worlds best original equipment manufacturers to bring their products to life through design, test development, and electronics manufacturing. Location:Rochester, MN The Supply Chain Analyst executes the planning and procurement activities to support department, business unit, and divisional goals, as well as ensuring customer needs are met.
Essential Functions and Competencies
- Understands the extended process of material procurement, capacity planning, inventory analysis, and advanced planning techniques (demand flow scheduling, vendor managed inventory, etc).
- Understands Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tools (Baan, or equivalent).
- Effective analytical, planning, and organizational skills.
- Effective interpersonal skills with co-workers and customers.
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
- Knowledge of purchasing practices and a familiarity with or ability to gain familiarity with procurement requirements for electronics and related agreements.
- Effective negotiation and problem solving skills.
- Demonstrates teamwork and the ability to operate on diverse project teams.
- Demonstrates confidentiality and the ability to represent the company in a professional manner.
- Exercises discretion and independent judgment when representing the company in supply chain decisions.
- Participates in a continuous improvement activity.
- Ability to understand and use continuous improvement tools
- Advanced MRP/ERP knowledge, as well as a working knowledge of supplier contract maintenance and sourcing techniques.
- Skills in supply chain management and drive initiatives.
- Strong leadership skills and effective oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to effectively mentor co-workers.
- Ability to independently drive solutions to complex supply chain issues with limited supervision.
- Leads or participates in a continuous improvement activity with complete documentation including a follow up review with the team in a presentation format.
Qualifications / Education / Experience
Develops, maintains and controls a realistic master production schedule by balancing customer requirements with manufacturing capacity and parts availability. Communicates forecast and production schedule changes to Master Planner and Supply Chain supervisor. Analyzes potential impact of forecast and production schedule changes on component procurement and production volume. Ensures consistency between customer demand information and production build schedules. Collaborates with customers, operations, and supply chain management to appropriately manage inventory levels and minimize obsolescence. Performs "What if" analyses to aid in optimal scheduling, priorities and decision making. Acts as the key contact for analysis of new orders, change orders, and net change analysis from customers. Performs material and capacity analysis, works with Scheduler to establish a production schedule for each order, and communicates/resolves issues related to discrepancies between the requested and promised due date. Monitors inventory levels and planned order quantities at both the component and assembly level and generates action plans to ensure that inventory levels are optimized, and dispositions excess inventory to support business objectives. Interfaces with customers, suppliers, and internal resources for management of AVL choices and alternates in order to monitor or reduce product cost or inventory levels, manage EOL and other assurance of supply issues, and support Engineering changes and New Product Introduction. Participates on the Customer Team as the Supply Chain Department representative & supports development of planning processes to support department, business unit, and divisional goals. Conducts day-to-day business analysis supporting supply chain management. Assists the Account Managers in developing monthly sales forecasts and updates the forecast based on the planning process. Develops, documents, and manages customer specific planning systems such as Kanban, safety stock, knowledge based configuration systems, vendor managed inventory, or other unique systems. Works directly with customers to gain an understanding of a customers planning system and how Benchmark and the customers processes interact. Recommends improvements and implements recommendations for improvements to the extended planning process in order to gain efficiencies in both Benchmarks processes and the customers processes. Assists other team members as needed to ensure customer needs are met. Handles all tactical responsibilities associated with purchase orders and performs buying activity for local, regional and global purchasing initiatives. Acts as the key contact for analysis of new orders, change orders, and net change analysis from customers. Participates on the Customer Team for large, complex accounts as the Supply Chain Department representative & supports development of planning processes to support department, business unit, and divisional goals. Assists the Supply Chain Supervisor as needed regarding development of advanced Planning processes. Develops decision support tools and financial models to analyze the cost/benefit tradeoffs of inventory changes. Trains and educates supply chain analysts on supply chain strategies, inventory management strategies, analysis techniques and tool development. Acts as lead buyer on initiatives as assigned by commodity management. Drives initiatives, analyzes critical items, and develops and implements complex solutions to supply chain issues. Evaluates competitive offerings from suppliers to determine the overall best offer, technical analysis, operational analysis, cost/price analysis, and make/buy analysis. Participates on commodity team(s) responsible for supplier management and develops effective plans for supplier improvement. Works with internal and external customers and or other supply chain personnel to analyze and determine best supplier or service provider for the defined scope of work. Reviews data for accuracy and analyzes the information in support of agreements. Contributes to cost reduction program by making viable business recommendations and process improvement ideas. Manages components throughout product life cycle (PLC). Complies with commodity strategies as directed by commodity management. Participates and provides input to supplier score card reviews. Works with Supplier Development Engineering in the qualification of components as required. Works with commodity management for component sourcing activities. Executes the tactical portion of component Stop Ship/Purge efforts.
5+ years experience in more complex purchasing accounts / commodities
4 year degree
Job Category
Purchasing
Job Location
Rochester, MN, USA
Schedule
Day
Pay Type
Salary
Travel Requirement
No
Job Type
Full-Time
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Benchmark Electronics, Inc.
Benchmark Electronics is proud to be named as one of the Top 100 Companies in the greater Houston area in the May 23, 2010 edition of the Houston Chronicle. Join us and become a part of a global team of professionals dedicated to delivering value to our customers.
Benchmark is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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It is the policy of Benchmark Electronics, Inc. to base all employment-related decisions on principles of equal employment opportunity. In particular, it is the policy of Benchmark Electronics, Inc.:
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- to provide reasonable accommodation where necessary and feasible, and otherwise treat equally, qualified individuals with disabilities; and
- to provide a workplace free of prohibited harassment, including sexual harassment.
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