Buyer II - ERP/MRP

Job Description

Job Description

About ANA: 

Join a recognized industry leader - Alliance North America was proudly named a 2025 Top Workplace in the Manufacturing Industry, an honor based entirely on feedback from our own employees about our culture, values, and workplace experience.

Alliance North America was established in 2017 and is proud to be the sole North American supplier of AIRMAN Power Generators, AIRMAN Air Compressors, and ANA’s patented EBOSS® Hybrid Energy System and Smart load bank system.  Our commitment to our customers is to Make their World Easier, by answering the phone, understanding their needs, and taking ownership to provide them solutions. With a large parts inventory and more than 90% of all orders shipping within 24 hours, you never have to worry about spare parts. We help keep your fleet in top condition with our world class Support Department, who are always ready to help and be a resource by providing training on our equipment.

ANA is headquartered in Henderson, Nevada with locations in Cypress, California and Spartanburg, South Carolina. ANA is growing and scaling and we are seeking a motivated Buyer to join our growing team. This position will be responsible for the supply planning, purchase order execution, and leveraging purchasing principles to maintain on time material and supplies to ANA’s Supply Chain.

The Buyer II is responsible for designing and executing world-class purchasing and material planning activities while supporting the development, optimization, and ongoing effectiveness of the organization's ERP/MRP and Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities.

This position serves as a critical bridge between Purchasing, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, IT, and the supplier base, ensuring that purchasing and material-planning processes are accurately developed within the ERP/MRP environment and translated into actionable business intelligence.

The role combines strong manufacturing purchasing fundamentals with advanced analytical capability to improve the accuracy of:  material availability, inventory optimization, supplier performance, planning, cost visibility, and operational decision-making. A key expectation of the position is to move the organization to full utilization of ANA’s ERP tool, developing and implementing all applicable features necessary for purchasing department to work efficiently; from transactional purchasing and manual material management toward a data-driven, exception-based purchasing model supported by reliable ERP/MRP information and BI analytics.

This role is fully onsite, and the work schedule is weekdays at 8:00 – 5:00pm. This role reports to the Purchasing Manager.

Purchasing & Material Management:

• Execute purchasing responsibilities for assigned commodities, suppliers, materials, or programs in accordance with established sourcing and commodity strategies.
• Maintain appropriate material availability to support manufacturing requirements while minimizing excess and obsolete inventory.
• Review MRP requirements and convert system demand into appropriate purchasing actions.
• Manage purchase orders, supplier schedules, acknowledgments, lead times, delivery commitments, and material exceptions.
• Identify and resolve potential shortages before they impact manufacturing operations.
• Work directly with suppliers to improve delivery, lead time, flexibility, cost, and overall supply-chain performance via supplier scorecards.
• Support inventory optimization through appropriate order quantities, safety-stock strategies, lead-time management, and replenishment parameters.

ERP/MRP & Business Intelligence Development and Optimization: Serve as the Purchasing and Supply Chain subject-matter expert for ERP/MRP and Business Intelligence, supporting the development, implementation, optimization, and continuous improvement of an integrated, data-driven planning and decision-support environment. Translate business requirements into scalable system functionality, standardized planning processes, automated analytics, and actionable management information that improves material availability, inventory performance, supplier execution, cost management, and supply-chain visibility.

• Partner cross-functionally with Purchasing, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, IT, Quality, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into effective ERP/MRP workflows, planning logic, system parameters, data structures, controls, and reporting solutions.
• Evaluate current Purchasing and material-planning processes and lead improvements that increase system utilization, automation, data integrity, planning accuracy, and operational efficiency, while reducing reliance on manual transactions and disconnected spreadsheets.
• Support the development, validation, governance, and continuous optimization of critical MRP planning logic and master-data parameters, including supplier lead times, order quantities, minimum order quantities, safety stock, reorder points, supplier assignments, purchasing calendars, material classifications, inventory policies, and other planning attributes.
• Participate in ERP/MRP system design, testing, validation, implementation, enhancement, and continuous improvement, ensuring system functionality accurately supports Purchasing and Supply Chain business requirements across ANA operations.
• Develop and optimize Business Intelligence dashboards, automated reporting, analytical models, and exception-management tools that transform ERP/MRP data into actionable operational and strategic intelligence.
• Establish automated visibility into critical Purchasing and Supply Chain performance indicators, including supplier delivery and quality, purchase price variance, inventory levels and turns, material shortages, past-due purchase orders, supplier lead-time performance, capacity and supply risk, premium freight, forecast accuracy, excess and obsolete inventory, and cost reduction/cost avoidance.
• Develop exception-based management reporting that proactively identifies material, supplier, inventory, cost, and planning risks, enabling Purchasing resources to focus on the highest-priority issues requiring action.
• Support the development of executive-level BI dashboards and management reporting providing timely visibility to Cost, Quality, Delivery, Inventory, and Supply Risk, enabling fact-based decision-making and organizational accountability.
• Establish standardized ERP/MRP and BI processes, reporting methodologies, and performance definitions across manufacturing locations to create a single, reliable source of truth for Purchasing and Supply Chain performance.
• Drive the evolution from transactional and reactive Purchasing toward a predictive, exception-based, data-driven operating model, leveraging ERP/MRP discipline and Business Intelligence to improve planning accuracy, supplier performance, inventory optimization, and overall Supply Chain effectiveness.

• Develop automated visibility into critical Purchasing and Supply Chain KPIs, including:
• Supplier On-Time Delivery
• Supplier Quality Performance
• Purchase Price Variance
• Inventory Levels
• Inventory Turns
• Material Shortages
• Past-Due Purchase Orders
• Supplier Lead-Time Performance
• Supplier Capacity/Risk
• Premium Freight
• Forecast versus Actual Demand
• Excess and Obsolete Inventory
• Cost Reduction / Cost Avoidance

• Other duties as assigned

Required:

• 5+ years experience in manufacturing Purchasing, Supply Chain, Material Planning, Production Control, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years strong working knowledge of multiple ERP systems and applications.
• Strong working knowledge of ERP/MRP principles and manufacturing material flow.
• Demonstrated understanding of purchasing, inventory management, supplier management, production planning, and replenishment principles.
• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and root-cause problem-solving capabilities.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and data-analysis skills.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze large or complex datasets and convert information into actionable business decisions.
• Ability to understand the relationship between demand, inventory, lead time, supply, capacity, and manufacturing requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively across Purchasing, Manufacturing, Operations, Finance, Engineering, Quality, and IT.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

  Preferred:

• Bachelors degree in CES, Business and/or other related field of studies.
• Experience supporting an ERP/MRP implementation, migration, transformation, enhancement, or optimization initiative.
• Experience with Power BI or comparable Business Intelligence and visualization platforms.
• Experience developing dashboards, automated reporting, scorecards, or analytical models.
• Working knowledge of ERP reporting tools, relational data structures, data models, or comparable analytical technologies.
• Experience developing or supporting supply-chain KPI reporting.
• Experience with master-data governance and ERP/MRP planning-parameter management.
• Experience within a high-growth, high-volume, multi-site, or complex manufacturing environment.
• Exposure to Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Continuous Improvement, or structured Root Cause Problem Solving.

• Systems Thinking — Understands how Purchasing decisions, planning parameters, inventory, suppliers, manufacturing requirements, and ERP/MRP logic interact as one integrated system.
• Analytical Discipline — Uses facts, data, trends, and root-cause analysis to make decisions.
• Purchasing Fundamentals — Understands that systems and analytics enhance—but do not replace—strong Buyer judgment and supplier management.
• Data Ownership — Treats master-data integrity as an operational requirement rather than an administrative activity.
• Exception Management — Focuses organizational resources on the conditions requiring human judgment while enabling systems to manage routine transactions.
• Continuous Improvement — Consistently challenges manual, repetitive, and inefficient processes and seeks a better way.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration — Builds effective working relationships while maintaining clear accountability and ownership.
• Sense of Urgency — Recognizes emerging supply risks and acts before they become manufacturing disruptions.
• Accountability — Takes ownership from identification of an issue through implementation and verification of the solution.

• Root Cause Problem Solving
• Be Creative with Solutions
• Build open and honest relationships
• Build a positive team and family spirit
• Be inclusive
• Look for better ways
• Be humble
• Urgency

• Competitive pay
• 401k with company contribution
• Medical, Dental, & Vision
• Life Insurance
• Voluntary Accident Insurance
• Voluntary Critical Illness Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee Appreciation Programs

The salary range for this role is $63,000 – $70,000 per year, which serves as a guide for pay decisions. Final compensation will be determined by a of factors, such as candidate's qualifications, experience, and skills, as well as pay equity considerations.

You must be based in the United States and authorized to work in the U.S. without employer sponsorship. Please be advised that ANA does not provide employment-based visa sponsorship for this position at this time.

ANA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.