Logistics Specialist - Command Center

Bosch Group•Florence, KY

2d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for management and communications with suppliers. This includes tracking outputs, capacity planning, and continuous communication with suppliers, who may be international. The role involves managing the master schedule, daily communication with planners, troubleshooting SAP issues, working with aftersales for demands, ensuring the master schedule is loaded into SAP, leading production meetings, tracking production performance, maintaining finished goods inventory levels, and establishing daily production planning. Additionally, the role involves releasing material against purchase orders, managing inventory levels for selected items, tracking supplier delivery performance, driving corrective actions, communicating information within the company, working to reduce inventory inaccuracy, managing part shortage reports, expediting materials, reducing excess inventory, and working with the logistics coordinator to reduce freight costs. Planners are also responsible for proposing process improvements and generating/managing key reports and metrics. The role also includes monitoring incoming EDI, minimizing premium freight, setting up new customer scheduling agreements, checking customer demand against capacity, alerting if demand is over MCR, developing partnerships with customers, ensuring customer requirements are met, setting up expedites, maintaining customer systems, monitoring customer orders, negotiating premium expenses, analyzing customer releases, and maintaining relationships with customer material planners. For pre-production activities, the role involves receiving customer POs, analyzing deviations, defining and responsible for production planning for pre-production parts, sending releases to suppliers, ensuring availability of pre-production parts, maintaining accurate inventory, establishing lead times, fulfilling logistics checklists, interfacing with logistics and customer receiving, performing SAP transactions, establishing cost-effective shipment methods, rolling out supplier expectations, establishing program ramp-up plans, traveling to suppliers, reporting logistics progress, ensuring proper handoff of part responsibility, and acting as a liaison for pre-production activities.

Requirements

Bachelors degree or alternative four year program in Business, Logistics, or other associated field
Previous planning experience, specifically within customer/supplier relations and production line planning is required
Basic language skills required
Extensive math skills required for data management
Strong ability to make independent decisions that may be of a complex nature
Works under direct supervision and follows standard procedures and written instructions to accomplish assigned tasks
Intermediate computer skills and knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel (Preferably including PowerBI experience), PowerPoint and Outlook software
Skills and knowledge of SAP and other software packages (Ex: Axalant, Test Software)
Interpersonal skills to communicate with not only coworkers but all personnel levels (VP, BU Mgr, line workers)
Ability to work in an office environment, which could include sitting or standing for the majority of the day
Responsibilities include the need to lift, carry, push, and pull material on an infrequent basis
Indefinite U.S. work authorized individuals only
Future sponsorship for work authorization is not available
Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a drug screen and background check

Nice To Haves

Previous purchasing experience will be beneficial for this position
Preferably including PowerBI experience

Responsibilities

Provide a master schedule to production by line and by product
Daily communication with planners to avoid any supplier shortage
Trouble shoot SAP issues as necessary
Work with aftersales for demands and relay build needs to Production Scheduler
Ensure the master schedule is loaded into SAP properly, accurately and timely fashion, running the MPS so that supplier schedules can be distributed
Lead production meeting reporting for assigned BU
Track productions performance to the master schedule and take corrective actions as required
Responsible for maintaining finished goods inventory levels at target and inventory accuracy
Establish daily production planning in line with cost effective runs mutually accepted plan
Release material against blanket purchase orders (Domestic and International Suppliers) to support production schedule as well as pass-thru business
Communicate schedule updates with suppliers on a regular basis
Responsible for the management of inventory levels, schedules and availability of selected item, either manufactured or purchased, to meet production levels
Track Supplier delivery performance and follow up on past due suppliers
Drive corrective action with all late suppliers
Communicate information as required to departments and personnel within the company
Work to drive out root causes of inventory inaccuracy, with the goal of improving overall system reliability
Manage part shortage report on daily basis and report as necessary in production meeting
Follow-up and expedite materials as needed to meet customer requirements
Reduce excess inventory to increase inventory turns
Work with the logistics coordinator to reduce freight costs
Propose process improvements and the generation or management of key reports and metrics
Monitor the daily incoming EDI
Minimize any premium freight impacts
Set up new customer scheduling agreements and part numbers according to internal order from sales
Check the customer demand compare to the capacity contracted and alert if the demand is over MCR
Develop partnership with customer
Work with shipping to ensure all customer requirements are clearly understood and met
Set up expedites to the customer as required and communicate with Transportation Company to preclude delays in transit
Maintain all customer systems (Covisint, DDL, Smart, Supply Power)
Monitor customer orders and communicate any significant fluctuations
Negotiate any premium expenses with the customer that may result from customer order changes
Analyze customer releases for short term changes and long forecast
Responsible for the relationship with the customer material planner and prompt responses to all customer requests
Receive customer PO thru sales organization and/or customer integrated release engineer
Analyze the customer deviation
Define and responsible for the production planning for the finished goods pre production parts in line with the program time line
Send the release to the suppliers for the pre production parts without a scheduling agreement (SA)
Responsible for the availability of the pre production parts from suppliers to meet the production plan
Responsible for accurate inventory of all supplier pre production parts in house
Establish lead time and communicate material delivery target date
Responsible for fulfilling the logistics checklist for each gate of the new program
Interface with the logistics department about packaging definition and line side lay out
Interface with customer receiving areas as needed
Perform all necessary SAP transactions (material movements, sales orders, shipping etc)
Establish cost effective shipment method for pre production parts
Responsible for roll out of supplier expectations – Logistics manual, understanding releases, shipment guidelines
Establish program ramp up plan that supports production for distribution to suppliers
Travel to suppliers as needed
Reporting of Logistics progress toward program milestones/gates to management
Responsible for ensuring proper hand off of part responsibility to Production Planners
Liaison to external departments for pre production activities