.Our culture believes in Powering Your Potential. We provide global opportunities to develop your career, make your community a better place and work with today's most innovative thinkers to solve the world's toughest problems.We believe in flexibility for you to explore your passions while making an impact through meaningful work within our inclusive workforce. That's what #LifeAtCummins is all about.BuyerDescriptionUse analytical and quantitative methods to understand, predict, and enhance supply chain processes.Responsible for analyzing performance, identifying problems, and developing recommendations to improve the organization's Supply Chain.Provide analytical support to one or more functional areasUse common processes tools, and information systems to enable supply chain analysis.Ensure data integrity of all analytics and reports.Analyze and interpret Key Performance Indicators to identify areas for improvement and action plans.Participate in six sigma and supply chain improvement projectsUse existing business systems to provide analytics and reporting that are capable and repeatable.SkillsCommunicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.Global perspective - Taking a broad view when approaching issues, using a global lens.Manages complexity - Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.Optimizes work processes - Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.Materials Planning System Utilization - Uses the materials planning system to manage supply and demand plans taking long-term corrective action on exception messages and other alerts based on root cause analysis; occasionally refers to adhoc tools such as Excel, Access, TOAD, OMS, etc. in performing problem solving, while leveraging the materials planning system as the primary tool in day-to-day operations.Plan for Every Part (PFEP) - Uses PFEP in planning, designing, and management of systems and processes within a facility to ensure delivery of right part at the right time in the right quantity to the right place, which in turn guarantees smooth operations; applies PFEP principleson the end to end supply chain with particular attention to the relationships between master data management, materials planning parameters, engineered material flows, transport management, and warehouse management.Inventory Management and Optimization - Uses analytics and algorithms to determine the optimal level of inventory investment across the end-to-end supply chain within specific constraints (warehouse space, customer delivery, etc
