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Materials Planning Analyst
Global Eagle Entertainment
Miramar, FL, United States
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Role Summary
The Materials Planning Analyst (MRP) is responsible for maintain and monitor all pertinent data related to the Bill of Material (BOM) and Item Master in the MRP system. Will interface with a variety of functions, exchanging data to define part parameters in both MRP, the Engineering Product Database system and key vendors.
Key Responsibilities
• Plan material requirements and ensure the availability of the material using Oracle MRP system.
• Address daily exception messages in Oracle MRP system.
• Schedule utilizing MRP demand to execute planned work orders. Utilize released and created work orders to ensure compliance with the planned demand to support sales and inventory levels, while effectively utilizing available capacity.
• Analyze, investigate, and assure the accuracy of the MRP action messages.
• Maintain the Bill of Material (BOM); evaluate BOM gaps, ensure material requirements are well understood and communicated with a focus on long lead time and obsolete materials.
• Determine and maintain critical planning item attributes in Oracle through collaboration with other departments.
• Maintain and perform detailed analysis of planning metrics and reports.
• Participate in forecasting demand and analyzing inventory trends.
• Coordinate with cross-functional business teams to develop the best economic strategy for demand planning to support production.
• Participate in company initiatives and contribute to continuous process improvements.
• Create and maintain schedules for sequencing and lead time for each operation to successfully meet shipping dates according to forecasts and orders.
• Communicate with internal customers as to status of all open orders/jobs and informing of exceptions impacting customer on time delivery shipments.
• Provide management visibility over work-in-progress, material availability, and potential production issues, ensuring that personnel, equipment, tools, materials and services are available as needed.
• Make or recommend revision to planned production schedules as necessary when schedules cannot be met, includes preparing back-up schedules
Qualifications/Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Business/Materials Management, or similar.
• Minimum of 2 years of planning experience in a production environment or similar experience.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify issues with processes/data and generate solutions.
• Proficient computer skills (MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to be flexible, multi-task, and have strong organizational skills to meet strict deadlines.
• Working knowledge of an ERP/MRP Oracle system.
• Preferred: Experience or exposure to an MRP system implementation.
• Experience with Oracle Demand Planning or other major planning software.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment with minimal supervision.
Skills/Interests
• Previous Hands-on Implementation experience with at least two ERP Systems
• Strategic Partnership / Relationship management – proactively support objectives of other departments
• Analytical abilities (Advanced MS Excel - MACROS, VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables)
• Support the implementation readiness review process