Material Planner

Dana Incorporated • Crossville, TN

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About The Position

The Materials Planner is responsible for ensuring the timely availability of raw materials, components, and supplies required for production.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in business or engineering
• 3-5 years materials/logistics experience preferred
• SAP experience preferred
• Good working knowledge of material flow and inventory control
• Knowledge of ERP, MRP theories and procedures, and Lean Manufacturing preferred
• Knowledge of concepts and application of materials requirements and inventory planning
• General understanding of manufacturing activities and shop floor control
• Understanding of systems functions and transactions
• Must have excellent computer skills and thorough knowledge of MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel
• Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills and must be capable of professionally interacting with an international customer base.
• Must be proactive, detail oriented and have excellent organization, planning and follow-through skills.
• Committed to tasks and skilled at identifying and solving a variety of problems of broad scope and complexity with little to no supervision.

Responsibilities

• Work with other members of the Materials team to help them achieve their objectives.
• Analyze material requirements and initiate appropriate vendor material release schedules.
• Maintain inventory levels to ensure an uninterrupted supply of material while at the same time, operating within established ordering rule constraints.
• Maintain inventory to hit established inventory targets, and fill rates.
• Monitor Customer past dues to ensure the best Customer Service.
• Analyze and report significant vendor delivery problems to department manager.
• Establish and maintain a professional working relationship with supplier contacts through frequent phone contact and plant visitations.
• Continuously monitor ongoing material requirements versus availability, supplier delivery to schedule, net changes and material rejection or loss.
• Coordinate shipments from suppliers to minimize freight costs.
• Respond to internal customer service inquiries in a timely manner, order acknowledgments, and advanced shipping notices.
• Assist in EDI implementation or external portal use with suppliers for purchase order receipt.
• Communicate material availability information as required to master Customer Service, sales and plant production.
• Identify unresolved problems and communicate to Dana Global Purchasing.
• Maintain records of material at outside subcontractors or obligation material at vendors.
• Develop, review, and update inventory standards, ordering rules, vendor information and lead times to most efficiently order and manage inventory and measure supplier performance.
• Review excess and obsolete inventories and provide to management recommendations for disposition.
• Participate in implementation of engineering changes and new model introductions. Monitor the status of new part PPAP.
• Coordinate the phase in of new suppliers or re-sourcing programs.
• Identify quantity and plan any special banks for vendor protection, new model phase-in, special safety stocks, etc.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level