Job Summary:
- Responsible for ensuring material availability to support production execution and customer delivery commitments.
- Ensures material availability aligns with production plans while managing supply risks, inventory levels, and supply commitments.
Job Description:
1. Material Planning & Forecasting
- Analyze Available-to-Promise (ATP) to determine material availability and validate feasible prior to confirming customer demand requirement/forecast.
- Execute daily MRP exception messages, shortage reports, and demand changes to ensure timely material availability.
- Evaluate demand–supply alignment on a periodic basis and update the material requirements plan to reflect current priorities and constraints.
2. Inventory Management
- Manage inventory positions including allocation and ATP balance on a daily basis with focus on critical and constrained materials.
- Drive periodic review of inventory policies, including safety stock, buffer strategies, and planning parameters in alignment with demand volatility.
- Enforce inventory repositioning actions driven by forecast changes, engineering change (ECN), and product lifecycle transitions, to ensure supply continuity while preventing excess and obsolete inventory risk.
3. Supply, Risk & Contingency Management
- Track and manage supplier delivery commitments on a daily basis, ensuring strict alignment with material requirement plan.
- Drive timely resolution of material shortages, ensuring recovery plans are clearly defined, executed and tracked to closure.
- Execute supply mitigation and risk containment actions including expediting, de-expediting, alternative sourcing, and part substitution to minimize production execution and customer delivery.
- Secure supply for long lead-time items (LLI) and constrained components on an as-required basis, based on demand signals, MRP exceptions, and supply risk indicators.
4. Production Support
- Manage and sustain Clear-to-Build (CTB) status as a mandatory prerequisite prior to production execution, ensuring no material-related disruption to Manufacturing Order (MO) release and build activities.
- Coordinate material constraints, CTB gaps, and recovery actions to Production Planning on a daily execution basis to ensure proactive production planning adjustments.
- Drive production prioritization decisions based on material readiness status, ensuring constrained materials are allocated in alignment with business priorities and customer commitments.
- Drive regular execution alignment discussions, providing visibility on material readiness risks impacting production output and delivery performance.
5. Cross-Functional Coordination
- Coordinate with procurement/sourcing/internal supply team on an ongoing basis for supply management, recovery actions, and escalation handling.
- Drive coordination with engineering to ensure timely material substitution and effective control of ECN impacts on supply and production execution.
- Collaborate with production on a daily basis to ensure material readiness supports execution plans.
- Communicate delivery commitments, supply risks, and mitigation actions on a regular basis to Project, Sales and Account Management teams.
6. System & Data Accuracy
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date SAP system data on a daily basis, including supply commitment status and material availability.
- Drive timely system updates for all changes in demand, supply, and engineering changes.
Job Requirements
7. Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Professional certifications such as APICS CPIM or CSCP will be an added advantage.
- Candidates with a Diploma and relevant working experience may also be considered.
8. Experience
- Minimum of 2 to 5 years of relevant experience in material planning, supply chain, or inventory management.
- Prior experience within a manufacturing environment is preferred.
9. Working Skills & Competencies
- Strong knowledge of material planning processes, including MRP/ERP systems and inventory control principles.
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills to effectively manage material shortages, supply risks, and constraints.
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational and planning capabilities to ensure accuracy and efficiency in execution.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel and data analysis for planning, tracking, and reporting purposes.
