Material Planner

Job Summary

Responsible for planning and managing material requirements to ensure timely availability for production, while optimizing inventory levels and supporting customer demand.

Main Responsibilities

• Create the master planning schedule in the MRP system to generate manufacturing and raw material requirements and achieve target inventory levels.
• Analyze customer demand and its variations in mix and volume, identify lead time and capacity constraints, and proactively alert potential issues.
• Import and update customer demands, anticipate and ensure production activities are focused on meeting those demands.
• Monitor the MPS, assign priorities, record causes of schedule changes, and ensure root causes are resolved in time.
• Establish and maintain planning parameters in the ERP / MRP system.
• Generate schedule compliance reports, communicate and follow up on performance indicators.
• Coordinate with Engineering to review and validate the bill of materials.
• Establish and implement best practices related to inventory planning.
• Define and manage safety stock levels, monitor excess, aging, and obsolete inventory.
• Assist the materials group in analyzing the need and size of critical material inventories to handle customer demand fluctuations.
• Generate clear-to-build reports and shortage analysis.
• Communicate resource constraints to leaders of different functional areas.
• Assist in financial planning by providing sales and production analysis, including variations and limitations.
• Work closely with Engineering, Production, and Materials to resolve productivity issues, equipment utilization, capacity, downtime reduction, and optimal production quantities.
• Coordinate with Quality, Engineering, and Production to ensure 100% OTD by establishing and monitoring the production schedule and proactively resolving issues.
• Lead weekly planning meetings, presenting potential problems and managing solutions.
• Perform scenario analysis of additional demand impact before committing to the customer.

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