Material Planner

Position Summary:

Manage inventory levels required to meet shipment and operations objectives through manufacturing or purchasing procurement. Plan, schedule, coordinate and/or monitor the flow of products through the complete production cycle.

Expedite with Suppliers and Manufacturing personnel as required to meet/exceed Customer Service requirements. Support warehouse during material segregation and other operational activities for all IP Models. Manage spare parts ordering, expediting & receiving to serve production targets for AM spares.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Schedule the supply of materials/components to meet production requirements and minimum safety stock levels.
• Plan, develop, implement and evaluate processes for material delivery from supplier to point of fit.
• Assess volume requirements against planning assumptions.
• Day-to-day order management and management of deliveries.
• Understand and manage risks to minimise impact on production schedule.
• Take follow up actions in relation to material shortages that affect production.
• Implement all processes to agreed standards and targets and support continuous improvement initiatives and identify areas of improvement.
• Utilise any Material Requirements Planning system (MRP) or IT system that is in place and ensure that data is accurate and up to date and resolve any issues as required.
• Monitor the integrity of Bill of Materials (BOM) and manage inventory accuracy.
• Monitor inventory levels against agreed target levels.
• Support inventory checks to validate inventory accuracy.
• Minimise obsolete stock and ensure business is left with minimum liability.
• Create regular statistical reports and analysis and update others in the organisation.
• Review daily order reports to identify product requirements.
• Create purchase orders.
• Modify existing purchase orders.
• Other activities as part of sourcing system for a wide range of mechanical parts.
• Expedite deliveries.
• Work with suppliers to balance capacity and requirements to satisfy OTP and inventory levels.
• Execute ECN materials actions.
• Manage and reconcile inventory discrepancies due to lost parts and supplier non-conformance issues.
• Manage supplier/manufacturing stocking programs.
• Backup co-workers as required due to vacation, illness etc.
• Identify safety stock revisions.
• Assist supply chain with supplier relations by reviewing on a monthly basis.
• Work with engineering, contracts and planner to develop safety stock levels to support project demand.
• Communicate any delays caused by abnormal demand, salvage, scrap or late parts.
• Prepare Regional expense report, Realized savings report, supplier performance report and supplier capacity evaluation report monthly.
• Work with suppliers and manufacturing to establish priorities when bottlenecks exist. Requires making decisions on partial shipments, splitting machining lots and other possibilities to maximize customer service.
• Secure and analyze quotations; negotiate price and terms with suppliers and recommend based on cost, quality and delivery.
• Coordinate as appropriate quality matters and engineering changes/developments between manufacturing operations and suppliers.
• Initiate and facilitate problem-solving skills, implement solutions and track results.
• Identify, suggest and implement process improvements by taking own initiative and generate lean projects in purchasing department.
• Establish, retain and maintain data integrity with the current running ERP system.
• Cost reduction initiatives.
• Resolve complex delivery, quality or other related problems with purchases.
• Serve technical focal for special or high level audits & assessments of supplier’s systems, processes & products.

Position Requirements:

EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Engineering with minimum of 5 Years of experience in relevant field.

EXPERIENCE:
5 years.

OTHER SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE:
Managerial experience preferred.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
PC Literate.
Knowledge of Goulds Pumps Products preferred.
ERP & SAP software fluencies.
Query processing ERP/Excel.
Presentation skills & ability to manage multiple priorities.