Purchasing/Freight Technician

At Air Products, we reimagine what’s possible. By tapping into the motivation of our people and our collective experience, we create the ideas and innovations that drive us forward. When we come together – where every voice is heard and everyone knows they belong and matter – we create solutions that launch people into space, support lifesaving care in hospitals, and enable the construction of groundbreaking, world scale production facilities.

This position has authority to make purchase and commitments up to their prescribed authority limits. Within the framework of corporate policy, procedures and authority limits, the incumbent can determine the following:

• Personally plan and prioritize their own work to meet the team’s deadlines.

• Whether or not a requisition is properly approved and ready to be processed

• Whether a requisition should be referred to a buyer

Order processing

• Creation of Purchase orders (PO’s) against existing agreements

• Creation of low value PO’s from sourced requisitions

• Tracking and chasing order confirmations

• Raising PO amendments as/if required

• Support automation and system enhancement initiative.

• Handling transactional purchases and discrepancies resolution activities associated to Requisition To Pay (RtP) activities

• Execute low value purchase orders where requisition is sourced

Discrepancy resolution

• Invoice discrepancy chasing, resolution and reporting utilizing ZMRBR reports

• GR/IR – Utilizing ZMR11 ensuring queries are received, disseminated for resolution, processed and in accordance with the agreed monthly Finance cycles

• Resolution of vendor data issues associated with invoice and discrepancy resolution

Others

• Outline agreement maintenance in support of the Buyers

• Liaising with Vendor master technicians to update and correct vendor master data (fax details, pay to details, etc.) as required

• Any ad hoc tasks or activities as assigned by the manager

• Attend to internal audit, external audit or internal control requests on timely manners

• Bachelor’s degree in business/administration/finance or any other relevant majors

Founded in 1940, Air Products is a world-leading industrial gases company and has a proud history of innovation, operational excellence, with an unwavering commitment to safety and environmental stewardship. Working together, we are taking our passion and diverse backgrounds forward to reimagine what’s possible and generate a cleaner future for our customers, our communities, and the world.