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:
Supplier open order report

Supplier salvage report

Supplier OTP report
- Realize savings report
- 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 5Years of experience in relevant filed

**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