Buyer/planner

**Buyer/Planner
Oldham
£35,000 - £40,000 + Benefits**

Are you a Buyer/Planner with an Electronic Manufacturing background? Are you looking to join a growing organisation that can offer you a chance to progress your career further.

We are currently recruiting a Buyer/Planner to schedule, release and maintain manufacturing orders liaising with other departments as required to resolve material shortages and production capacity issues.

This is an excellent opportunity to work as part of a fantastic team in a great working environment, including a modern, purpose-built office space and a best-in-class manufacturing facility.

**What will the role involve?**
- To manage the daily production schedule based on customer orders, availability of materials, manufacturing capacity and creation date of production orders Stock Transport Orders (STO).
- Co-ordinate discussions between areas of the business to solve issues impacting the production schedule
- Ensure SAP accuracy of production schedule dates, Stock Transport Order (STO) dates and other data impacting Product Availability to allow the following.
- Accurate Available to Promise (ATP) dates

**Ideal Skills and Experience**
- Knowledge and experience of using SAP or similar E RP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems
- Good IT systems knowledge and skills including Excel and the ability to learn new software packages
- Knowledge of production/manufacturing processes and lead times
- Good communicator with the ability to form and maintain good relationships internally and externally

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