Purchase-to-Pay (Intern) - Procurement Services 1

Do you want to work with passionate teams, providing excellent business and digital services to the Asia Pacific region?

Do you want an open, supportive, and caring working environment?

Do you view your development needs seriously as we do?

If YES, then take your career to the #NextLevel with BASF !

Objectives of Position

• Provides procurement transaction processing support to deliver procurement services identified within the Procurement Services to BASF group companies in accordance with established policies, guidelines, processes and work procedures, which in compliance with BASF procurement policies and local company legal and statutory requirements.
• Work closely with other service delivery streams to ensure smooth purchase-to-pay integration

Main Tasks

Purchase Order (PO) Management

• Help assign suppliers for Purchase Requisitions
• Assist buyers in creating Purchase Orders based on agreed terms
• Monitor Purchase Orders in the system, ensuring supplier confirmations are received
• Communicate with suppliers to ensure timely order fulfillment

Contract Management

• Create and maintain outline agreements in SAP based on agreed terms and conditions such as price, header validity and target quantity.
• Assist buyers to create and maintain outline agreements, E-Catalogs in SAP as per the agreed terms and conditions.

Workcycle

• Help resolve discrepancies with invoices and liaise with the Finance team
• Assist in tracking goods receipt issues and helping internal teams with solutions

Admin Support

• Assist with updating and maintaining vendor data
• Support supplier onboarding processes

Others

• Ensure usage and support implementation of globally defined processes to drive operational excellence (e.g. Procurement Guidelines, Work Instructions etc.)
• Perform any other duties or tasks as assigned by Manager or Team Specialist.

Requirements

• Diploma / Bachelors Degree preferably in Business Administration / Supply Chain Management / Logistics / Procurement
• Functional knowledge and skills in using Microsoft applications, i.e. Words, Excel, PowerPoint
• SAP skills will be of an added advantage
• Good analytical, organizational, communication, interpersonal skills and high sense of responsibility.
• Fluent in spoken and written English
• Open to commit for 4-6 month duration
• Knowledge of any other Asian language will be an added advantage

BASF Asia-Pacific Service Centre was established in 2005. Located in Kuala Lumpur, the regional service hub has about 1,200 employees and growing. Focused on being a competency and digitalization driven hub, it also provides quality functional and know-how services in the areas of finance, controlling, human resources, real estate and facilities management, communications, environmental, health and safety, procurement, import-export order management, and information services to BASF companies and affiliates in the Asia Pacific region. BASF also has two other regional hubs located in Berlin, Germany, and Montevideo, Uruguay that cover the Europe and Americas regions.

At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. Around 112,000 employees in the BASF Group contribute to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio comprises six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care and Agricultural Solutions. BASF generated sales of €68.9 billion in 2023. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchange in Frankfurt (BAS) and as American Depositary Receipts (BASFY) in the U.S. Further information at www.basf.com.