MATERIALS PLANNING ANALYST I

Job Overview

TE Connectivity's Materials Planning Teams are responsible for the plans, schedules, and monitoring of the movement of material through the production cycle. They determine quantity and order date for materials to meet production or engineering schedules, initiate purchase or production requisitions compliant with supply agreements, and develop the schedule to be used in the production facility based on forecasts and historical analysis. The Team develops specifications for new contract orders as well as forecasts and plans for labor requirements. They provide timely and accurate input on supplier performance and may be asked to participate in higher level supplier performance reviews with the strategic sourcing team. They also monitor cost, schedule and scope of assigned subcontracts to assure best quality at best value.

Roles & Responsibilities

ROLE OBJECTIVE
Incumbent will be responsible for end-to-end Material planning operations for automative. He / She should be ensuring the availability of finished materials in the supply chain. Playing major role on Key performance Indicator of Supply Chain Management. To coordinate and integrate the flow of materials and information among suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and customers, identifying opportunities for improving efficiency, effectiveness and capabilities of the supply chain.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage the Purchase Order (PO) fulfilment cycle, from purchase requisition through Goods Receipt in the Regional Distribution Centers.
• Work with suppliers and Global Logistics teams to address incidents or exceptions.
• Troubleshoot, expedite and de-expedite product availability and work with cross-functional teams to meet delivery and inventory KPIs, improving customer service and experience, while optimizing logistics cost, inventory and obsolescence
• Execute and coordinate production priority and supply allocation with Master Production Scheduling, Sales and Product Management under capacity and resource constraint.
• Respond to unexpected event in the supply chain, report and escalate those risks to the Supply Chain Manager.
• Track and improve ship to request and ship to schedule performance.
• Clarify short lead time and abnormal demand with Demand Management, Product Manager, Sales and Customer Service Team.
• Perform and publish root cause analysis on delivery performance KPIs.
• Execute Make-To-Order, Make-to-Forecast and Make-To-Stock strategies.
• Coordinate global stock rebalancing activities.
• Review healthy stock levels, conduct root cause analysis and back to normal actions.
• Speed up maturity of old date code, dead projects and quality issues.
• Define demand & supply characteristics and propose optimize segmentation and planning strategies.
• Track billing and shipping backlog versus forecast.
• Expedite late code and shippable late.
• Initiate measurements of guaranteeing production and customer deliveries in case of shortages and other delivery problems.

Desired Candidate

EDUCATION/KNOWLEDGE

• Bachelor or master’s degree in supply chain, Logistics, Operations, Commerce
• Knowledge in SAP, MS Office, Access, SharePoint.
• Very high customer and service orientation required.
• Knowledge on Supply Chain Management and Sales Operations.
• Very strong Time Management skills.
• Fluent English language skills – written and spoken.
• Strong analytical ability to translate data into actionable information.
• Ability to quickly adapt to new requirements (change Management)
• Ability to work in an intercultural and international team.

CRITICAL EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 5-8 years’ experience in Material / Product planning.
• Experience in working with multiple teams globally.

Competencies