Your Job
VMI Specialist position requires making independent decisions and maintaining an elevated level of accuracy when determining customer stock levels and determining what is needed at a customer hub. Attention to detail and working closely with customers is needed to maintain stock accuracy levels that prevent line downs as well as avoiding any excess inventory issues. You will maintain the inventory for specific customers in the VMI program and ensure that transactions are made on a timely basis to maintain accurate and adequate inventory balances.
What You Will Do
- Coordinate the transition of customers currently processing direct orders, to a VMI program while following the proper VMI guidelines; continue to add new materials to VMI when possible.
- Analyze parts on consignment and customer forecasts routinely to identify where parts may be removed if they do not meet the minimum requirements; manage approved part list per customer.
- Help to ensure that updated forecast information is used to drive the replenishment of the warehouse inventory.
- Ensure that all inventory and invoicing transactions are made accurately and in a timely manner. Manage secured inventory adjustment transactions. Negotiate any aged inventory pulls needed and run reports to support data. Collaborate with customers and escalate only when needed.
- Work with Planning, Accounting and Product Management to position inventory at Molex and 3rd Party warehouse locations to best accommodate customer forecast fluctuation. Run waterfall charts to determine customer liability.
- Collaborate with customers, Sales, Plants, Pricing, Logistics, Finance, and 3rd Party warehouses to resolve any differences regarding balances, quality issues, contract/pricing issues, etc. Serve as an interface to provide delivery and tracking information.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience
- Work experience in customer service in a manufacturing environment, Logistics
- Proficient in utilizing SAP.
- Demonstrates high level analytical and proactive decision making to anticipate and resolve problems.
What Will Put You Ahead
- Understanding of manufacturing and inventory flows and the relationship between related transactions and systems.
- Organization skills to anticipate, plan, organize and self-monitor workload .
- Excellent customer service skills to manage and negotiate challenging situations.
- Previous inventory control responsibility for off-site programs.
- Previous production planning and inventory control experience; understanding of program management and interaction.
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
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Who We Are
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Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf