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ALFA LAVAL

Heat transfer, separation, fluid handling solutions

Operational Buyer

Production Planning & Scheduling +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeJiangyin, Wuxi, Jiangsu, ChinaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree with technical education or equivalent experience.
  • At least 2 years of experience in a relevant area at a foreign-invested production or manufacturing company.
  • Fair written and spoken English.
  • Fair knowledge of stock control and statistics.

Responsibilities

  • Run the material planning administrative process according to the company business plan to meet customer demand.
  • Control supply and manage inventory, with continuous improvement.
  • Execute material planning work based on standard operating procedures.
  • Actively resolve problems and consider waste elimination.
  • Apply Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost priorities in daily work, and immediately notify the line manager of problems or risks.
  • Prepare indicator data before SB performance meetings.
  • Run MRP periodically, manage MRP proposals, create purchase requisitions, and send purchase orders to suppliers.
  • Maintain purchase orders, including delivery times, postponements, and cancellations.
  • Track shortages promptly, including replenishing or advancing purchase orders, to ensure material availability.
  • Follow up on non-conformance reports.
  • Review and optimize inventory availability reports, including forecast versus actual, delivery-on-time information, and inventory data.
  • Adjust forecasts and send them to suppliers.
  • Check invoices and apply for payments for responsible suppliers.
  • Manage scrap and non-conforming items and initiate new purchasing processes to meet subsequent demand.
  • Analyze received component forecasts and update Jeeves data.
  • Control slow-moving items.
  • Support cost-update data preparation and maintain new price information.
  • Maintain basic item information and ensure purchasing-related data in the ERP system is accurate, correcting information such as minimum order quantities, lead times, and safety stock when needed.
  • Develop and optimize standard operating procedures.
  • Support phase-in and phase-out activities.
  • Support and follow up on DN.
  • Release and follow up on manual purchase orders.
  • Handle returns of non-conforming materials to suppliers.
  • Complete other tasks assigned by the unit manager.
  • Report periodically on material availability and supplier performance management.
  • Handle supplier claims and Jeeves adjustments, including internal supplier claims and cooperation with import/export teams on forwarder claims.
  • Manage packaging materials according to the assembly plan.
  • Manage outsourced materials, including baseline, frontline, and cutting-hole work.
  • Manage call-off materials, including coordination, parameter updates, goods-receiving control, and payment.

About the Company

ALFA LAVAL

Heat transfer, separation, fluid handling solutions

Alfa Laval provides sustainable solutions for heat transfer, separation, and fluid handling across industries such as energy, food, water, and marine. It sells advanced equipment and process systems and offers ongoing service to keep them running efficiently and long-lasting. Its products work by using heat exchangers to transfer heat, separators to remove components, and pumps and valves to move fluids in industrial processes, and it differentiates itself through a focus on sustainability, long-term service, and strong research and development. The company aims to help customers boost productivity and quality while reducing environmental impact, and to create shareholder value through steady innovation, operational excellence, and strategic financial actions like share buybacks.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Lund Municipality, Sweden
Founded
1883

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