Supply Chain Specialist - Mentor, OH

Supply Chain Specialist - Mentor, OH

Avery Dennison Performance Tapes has an immediate opening for an experienced Supply Chain professional to fulfill the role of a Supply Chain Specialist. This role will report into the Regional SM&L Manager and prepare business related analyses for Supply Chain, Materials Management, and/or Logistics (SML). The specialist will work closely with Finance, Operations, Procurement, and Supply Chain to track and manage Performance Tapes inventory. The specialist will also be responsible for managing inventory losses, external warehousing, safety stock analyses, and Customer Service Agreements (CSA). The role will fill in as needed to support the day to day operations. In this important role you will be responsible for:

• Responsible for managing overall inventory health and month end projections for Finance
• Track, categorize, and disposition slow moving and obsolete inventory (SLOB)
• Collaborate with the Sales and Marketing teams to establish, track, and phase-out Customer Service Agreements (CSA's) when applicable
• Perform regular deep dive analysis on current inventory positions and provide recommendations based on findings where there is risk or opportunity
• Track external warehousing spend and identify opportunities to reduce footprint where possible
• Prepare supply chain, material management, and logistics research for use in the development of business strategies and OGSM initiatives
• Coordinate purchasing and scheduling activities for a specialized product line in our medical business
• Responsible for developing, maintaining, and reporting metrics to increase productivity and efficiency
• Audit invoices to ensure that correct charges have been applied
• Assist in the development of policies, guidelines, and procedures to ensure quality and cost control
• Participate or lead process effectiveness and continuous improvement projects
• Collaborate with manufacturing, engineering, customer, vendor, and subcontractor representatives to ensure critical-to-quality requirements are met through the Supply Chain
• Responsible for project management and milestone report outs
• Health & Safety: Consistently work in a safe manner with regard to self, co-workers, and manufacturing systems
• ELS: Continuously review current processes and search out improvement methods to improve product/process quality and reduce waste, rework, and non-value added work
• Teamwork: Assist and support other team members in meeting department and site goals metrics
• Participate and share in performing all tasks necessary to run the facility