Purchasing and Inventory Specialist - St. Louis, MO

Description

• Ensure sales order costs are accurately reflected and transferred to purchase requisitions, including SOX-compliant backup documentation.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure timely resolution of outstanding items.
• Coordinate Month-End Accruals with Accounting and other related activities.
• Serve as backup for other PR/PO Coordinators.
• Manage promise dates by tracking completion flags, splitting lines, material status issues, and customer-requested changes.
• Organize and lead weekly meetings to address purchasing backlog concerns.
• Coordinate with finance and purchasing to resolve vendor credit holds.
• Identify audit criteria and proactively audit purchase orders to ensure issue-free deliveries.
• Monitor and update purchasing information records (PIR) in SAP.
• Create, update, and maintain purchase requisitions for third-party hardware and service purchases, aligned with Sales Order Backlog.
• Monitor purchasing reports to ensure vendor invoices are accurate and processed promptly; verify material receipt and communicate with ORM for customer invoice processing (CWS, MRBR, Service Entry Sheet, etc.).
• Prepare third-party drop-ship reports for month-end SOX compliance.
• Assist Sourcing with vendor setup and reactivation.
• Support tracking of purchases and creation of purchase order requisitions.
• Serve as liaison between ORM, project managers, and operations to resolve expedite requests, lead times, drop shipments, purchasing changes, and cancellations.
• Monitor daily reports to ensure timely conversion of requisitions to purchase orders.
• Oversee raw materials inventory.

Requirements

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance