Planner, Material Job Description
Planner, material
provides expert role to other sites and other departments for North American Order Fulfillment models and practices.
Planner, Material Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Understand in depth the technical functionality of MRP (Materials Requirement Planning) process including the effect of yield factors, safety stock and multiple sources of demand
Understand in depth EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) communications including technical aspects and troubleshooting to ensure proper information is delivered to the suppliers
Plan, schedule, and manage the materials for delivering time-critical components to support assigned production area and/or service areas
Work with suppliers to establish the appropriate delivery quantity and frequency for Just In Time delivery and line-side replenishment quantities
Maintain accurate open Purchase Order lines to define the inbound quantities and due dates from vendors
Identify system demand and/or BOM issues, and resolve inventory discrepancies
Generate and provide vendor forecasts on a regular basis to support production build plan, minimize freight costs, and optimize inventory levels
Using the inbound logistics tools, monitor the supplier shipments status and define appropriate actions if shipment is out of standard
Manage purchase order documentation consistent with TS-16949 requirements
Monitor inventory levels in light of changing production requirements, useful life of materials and plant storage capacity
Planner, Material Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Planner, Material
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: APICS, CPIM, CSCP, MRPT, CPM, NAPM, CAPIC, SAP, CPP, CIRM
Education for Planner, Material
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the planner, material job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Business, Engineering, Education, Manufacturing, Management, Supply Chain Management, Business/Administration, Technical, Associates, Industrial Engineering
Skills for Planner, Material
Desired skills for planner, material include:
American Airlines Technical Operations
Maintenance Programs
Procedures along with American Airlines route network are highly desirable
ARTEMIS
Access Database
Construction networks
Databases and report generation capabilities
EXCEL
MRPII
PowerPoint
Desired experience for planner, material includes:
Works with internal and external suppliers to resolve material issues (shortages, emergency customer demands)
Reviews, analyzes, and makes changes to supply based on the outcome of monthly sales and operations meeting
Participate in various groups as required and works with IT groups to test changes and updates in MRP system
Identifies task/program planning needs
Coordinates such activities as individual task detailed schedules, integration of tasks into master schedule, workaround schedules, resource allocation, funding tracking, hardware expediting, and project status/communication meetings
Must have a thorough understanding of planning principles, theories, techniques and concepts ability to understand accounting and manufacturing systems in a research or production environment and to apply advanced planning tools and techniques
Planner, Material Examples
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Planner, Material Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a planner, material. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for planner, material
- Analyze and develop monthly safety stock requirements
- Maintain all plant key performance indicators (RWIP, Expedites, Transportation, Safety Stock Calc, etc)
- Takes ownership of key results and orients activity to achieve them
- Understand part requirements for all customers and systematic logic that drives demand
- Understand and employ basic change management methodology
- Utilizes peer coaching for teammates and suppliers to drive performance using Continuous Improvement Principles (CIO)
- Accountable for plant metrics related to planner deck
- Interact with Google (gmail, sheets, forms, slides, docs)
- Gain knowledge of product and production parts
- Keeps management appraised of potential schedule or fiscal problems by tracking, reviewing and evaluating plans, schedules and/or budgets
Qualifications for planner, material
- Experience with ERP systems Inventory Management
- Hand cycle counts - directly hands on with the material
- BA/BS degree or equivalent years’ experience in a planner/buyer manufacturing role preferred
- Associate’s Degree or 5 years Supply Chain experience
- Positive Attitude, Ethics and International Values which support our company's values, and a healthy, high performance culture Teamwork, Felxibility, Good oral and written communications skills, Proficiency in Microsoft Office/Outlook, Organized, Time Management, Integrity, Trainable and Ownership of the job
- Provides input for developing efficient systems and methods to identify, plan, and schedule overall organizational tasks and objectives
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Our growing company is looking for a planner, material. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for planner, material
- Manages other Inventory Related reports and supply chain analysis
- Develop, manage and execute the Material Planning function by managing inventory levels to achieve forecasted turn rates and schedule requirements
- Schedule and implement part change notices
- Minimize expediting time and freight costs for inventory issues
- Determines disposition of film identified on monthly old and obsolete stock inventory reports
- Schedule and summarize all outgoing production
- Planning and ensuring availability of raw materials and consumables’ supplies for Biopharma production based on productions’ planning and stock
- Optimizing procurement parameters in order to ensure the best balance between inventory targets and service level
- Maintaining regular relations with suppliers in order to assure reliable supplies and measuring/analyzing and if needed enhancing their performance by means of indicators
- Ensure data integrity within ERP and planning software suite
Qualifications for planner, material
- Experience using scheduling tools
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of material flow related to production requirements planning
- The ability and knowledge to utilize scheduling tools and software ( SAP, MRP, MPS, and APS system
- APICS (CPIM) or NAPM (CPM) or Purchasing Management certification preferred
- Bachelor Degree, preferably Industrial Engineering
- Minimum of 1 year experience in Material Planning, preferably Imported Products
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a planner, material. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for planner, material
- Initiate inventory management and stock adjustments when required, to maintain continued accuracy and reliability of stock records
- Develop supplier relationships to allow constructive discussions to take place regarding delivery KPI improvements on behalf of the business
- Monitors all incoming electronic sales orders from distribution centers and affiliates
- Create an MRP plan that will meet the needs of the medium-long term production plan
- Define with SRC long term contract strategy for Raw Materials & Packs
- Provide forecasts and information to enable SRC to place the necessary contracts in a timely manner
- Prepare a weekly forecast and share with Supply Point call off
- Prepare forecasts for suppliers to allow them to prepare their production plans
- Monitor suppliers performance and review it regularly with suppliers & SRC
- Monitor inventory projection & lead initiatives to optimize/reduce
Qualifications for planner, material
- Russian is advantage
- Review Sales needs, inventory, usage, storage capacity, and product specifications on a daily basis, and develop a plan in case of gaps in order to minimize cost to serve and impact to customers
- To assure that appropriate amounts of raw materials are purchased and inventoried to meet customer material requirements
- Excellent knowledge of a production environment
- Working knowledge of systems for materials management and production planning is required
- Good knowledge and experience in NPI environment, inventory management, inventory control, engineering change management, product lifecycle management, and design-for-manufacturing materials program management
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Our company is looking to fill the role of planner, material. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for planner, material
- Leads, communicates and implements corrective action to realign supply where schedules / execution problems arise to minimize / eliminate risk to financial & customer performance
- Analyze data, including materials requirements planning information to determine stocking policies
- Set up and maintain accurate Item Master attributes for Satellite BC organization
- Manage inventory levels in relation to customer requirements, inventory targets and goals
- Responsible for the disposition of depreciated and slow moving inventory
- Work with Quality on non-conforming components for timely disposition
- Communicate with the Financial Service Center (FSC) to clear on hold invoices in Markview AP4220 (Canada) web box and personal web inbox in a timely manner to avoid supply interruptions or penalties
- Coordinate with Engineering to ensure the timely ordering of Advance Material Order (AMO) requirements for long lead time items and project based orders
- Create and re-schedule orders for material to support stocking policies
- Utilize Kanban and Bulk processes to ensure material availability and reduce cycle times
Qualifications for planner, material
- 2+ years related experience in materials or manufacturing environments
- BA/BS degree preferred 3-5 years as a planner/buyer and manufacturing and/or distribution experience
- ERP - People-soft, Oracle or similar
- Planning Software (Logility) or similar
- This position is a focal point of the tactical operation of the category
- Bachelor’s degree in business or related field or two years experience in materials or related field
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a planner, material. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for planner, material
- Generate and analyze MRP reports
- Fulfill MRP recommendations
- Create and maintain work orders
- Work with existing scheduling tools to determine production needs that meet the production schedule
- Communicate changes of production status to Customer Service Department
- Expedite operations to meet scheduled delivery dates
- Coordinate and expedite the placement of purchase orders and/or the delivery of material
- Ensure that all involved parties are cognizant of production status and that work, planning, and execution objectives are integrated and communicated
- Generate Production schedules to support the Master Production Schedule and customer requirements
- Troubleshoot problems and questions regarding purchases, suppliers
Qualifications for planner, material
- ERP program knowledge is advantage (SAP)
- Manage the Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) system parameters and issue
- Sourcing/Planning prime or Mgr
- Completed University Degree/ Diploma / Supply Chain qualification
- Experience in Planning and functional process knowledge
- 1-3 Years’ exposure in broad based Supply Chain management