Purchasing Coordinator - Mundelein, IL at Medline Industries, Inc. in Mundelein, Illinois

Job Description:

JOB SUMMARY:

Maintain, revise, and transmit Purchase Orders (PO) for Buyers, and maintain order quantities and ETAs for order lines into branches to ensure high service and low risk of surplus.

CORE JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure suppliers have received all POs, shipped complete orders and closed out POs. Contact suppliers and internal departments as necessary.


• Maintain accurate ETAs and order quantities for branch and DIR, and vendor purchase orders.


• Monitor, correct, and close out past due vendor invoices to ensure MRP and purchase order accuracy.


• Process workflow errors in SAP for supplier's EDI transactions.


• Maintain and complete Problem Tickets generated by branches.


• Review backorders and problems with Buyers and Managers.


• Develop relationship with suppliers and collaborate with suppliers to resolve problems and backorder issues.

• High school diploma or equivalent

• At least 2 years of experience preparing/processing requisitions and purchase orders.

• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).


• Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).


• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages and volume.


• Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and statistics in the interpretation and relationships in SAP.

• Bachelor's degree.


• SAP, Access and/or Fox/Pro.