Buyer/Planner

A leading plastics company situated in Cape Town is urgently seeking the expertise of an experienced Buyer/Planner to join their team.

Responsibilities

• Maintain responsibility for monitoring/creating purchase requisitions, on a daily basis, for appropriate vendors through ERP system, and converting requisitions to purchase orders.
• Lead all aspects of production scheduling, working with manufacturing.
• Cross-train to backfill a few other select areas in Planning and/or Purchasing.
• Ensure compliance with the companies Purchasing Policies and Procedures, Code of Ethics, Values and adherence to relevant laws and regulations.
• Interface with production, sales, purchasing and suppliers in order to schedule purchase orders of raw material to meet production demand.
• Supporting and providing the coordination of the material planning, purchasing and production scheduling function to ensure timely delivery to customers ...