About this role
<div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:20.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Job Purpose</b></H2> </div><div><p>The Materials Planner is responsible for ensuring the timely availability of raw materials, components, and supplies required for production.</p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:20.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Job Duties and Responsibilities</b></H2> </div><div><ul> <li>Work with other members of the Materials team to help them achieve their objectives. </li> <li>Analyze material requirements and initiate appropriate vendor material release schedules </li> <li>Maintain inventory levels to ensure an uninterrupted supply of material while at the same time, operating within<br>established ordering rule constraints </li> <li>Maintain inventory to hit established inventory targets, and fill rates </li> <li>Monitor Customer past dues to ensure the best Customer Service. </li> <li>Analyze and report significant vendor delivery problems to department manager </li> <li>Establish and maintain a professional working relationship with supplier contacts through frequent phone contact and<br>plant visitations </li> <li>Continuously monitor ongoing material requirements versus availability, supplier delivery to schedule, net changes and<br>material rejection or loss </li> <li>Coordinate shipments from suppliers to minimize freight costs </li> <li>Respond to internal customer service inquiries in a timely manner, order acknowledgments, and advanced shipping<br>notices </li> <li>Assist in EDI implementation or external portal use with suppliers for purchase order receipt </li> <li>Communicate material availability information as required to master Customer Service, sales and plant production </li> <li>Identify unresolved problems and communicate to Dana Global Purchasing. </li> <li>Maintain records of material at outside subcontractors or obligation material at vendors </li> <li>Develop, review, and update inventory standards, ordering rules, vendor information and lead times to most efficiently<br>order and manage inventory and measure supplier performance </li> <li>Review excess and obsolete inventories and provide to management recommendations for disposition </li> <li>Participate in implementation of engineering changes and new model introductions. Monitor the status of new part PPAP </li> <li>Coordinate the phase in of new suppliers or re-sourcing programs </li> <li>Identify quantity and plan any special banks for vendor protection, new model phase-in, special safety stocks, etc </li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:20.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Education and Qualifications</b></H2> </div><div><ul> <li>Bachelor degree in business or engineering </li> <li>3-5 years materials/logistics experience preferred </li> <li>SAP experience preferred </li> <li>Good working knowledge of material flow and inventory control </li> <li>Knowledge of ERP, MRP theories and procedures, and Lean Manufacturing preferred </li> <li>Knowledge of concepts and application of materials requirements and inventory planning </li> <li>General understanding of manufacturing activities and shop floor control </li> <li>Understanding of systems functions and transactions </li> <li>Must have excellent computer skills and thorough knowledge of MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel </li> <li>Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills and must be capable of professionally interacting with an<br>international customer base </li> <li>Must be proactive, detail oriented and have excellent organization, planning and follow-through skills. </li> <li>Committed to tasks and skilled at identifying and solving a variety of problems of broad scope and complexity with little to no supervision </li> <li>Must be able to work flexible hours</li> </ul></div></div></div>