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SalaryPrimary Location US-IL-CHICAGO
**This role is a predominantly a work-from-home position. However, candidate must reside within a reasonable distance from our Northfield, IL office or Mundelein, IL office**
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.
Education
- High school diploma or equivalent
Relevant Work Experience
- At least 2 years of experience preparing/processing requisitions and purchase orders.
Additional
- 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.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree.
- SAP.
