Materials Planner

Fujifilm • New Castle, DE

75d

About The Position

Support and optimize materials management and production planning by managing inventory, maintaining accurate SAP data, coordinating supply chain activities, and helping to align production schedules with customer demand. This role ensures the efficient flow of materials and information across the supply chain, helps to drive continuous improvement initiatives, and meet business objectives related to cost, quality, service levels, and regulatory compliance.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years' experience in a supply chain function or related field.
• Proven experience within a manufacturing environment, preferably in the chemical industry.
• Extensive experience with Material Requirement Planning (MRP), ideally using SAP for production planning and inventory management.
• Demonstrated experience in managing the cycle count process and inventory control.

Nice To Haves

• Proficiency with a wide range of software programs; strong capabilities in SAP and Excel are required.
• Experience with Tableau, Power BI or similar data management/analysis tools is highly desirable.
• Problem-solving skills with experience in continuous improvement tools such as Six Sigma and value stream mapping preferred.
• Working knowledge of ISO9001 and ISO14001 standards.

Responsibilities

• Maintain inventory accuracy of 98% or higher through effective cycle counts and reconciliation processes.
• Ensure 99%+ availability of critical raw materials and components to avoid production delays or stoppages.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives that reduce materials carrying costs and minimize obsolete or slow-moving inventory to meet KPI and DOI/CCC targets.
• Maintain up-to-date and accurate SAP master data with zero critical errors impacting production or planning workflows including new product setups.
• Maintain 100% compliance to ISO9001 and ISO14001 standards in materials management.
• Foster strong cross-functional collaboration, reflected in positive feedback from Sales, Customer Service, Procurement, and Production teams; promptly escalate and help resolve issues.
• Prepare and present department reports that provide insights into current and forecasted inventory status, identify supply risks, and assess capacity requirements.
• Collaborate with Planning and Customer Service to align materials management with customer demand forecast.
• Support the Materials Manager in developing and delivering KPI and business reporting; report and highlight deviations and areas for improvement against agreed performance measures.
• Assist in planning and supporting coordinating new product introductions (NPI) and supplier transitions.
• Administer SAP materials master data, Bills of Material (BoMs), and Routings.
• Maintain and update SAP data, including production hierarchy, lead times, batch sizes, and product routings.
• Review SAP setup configurations to identify operational efficiencies and align processes.
• Oversee and support production management in maintaining material masters, BoMs, routings, and work centers.
• Review inventory levels to minimize costs while achieving performance targets such as Days on Inventory (DOI) and Service Level Agreement (SLA).
• Participate in risk-assessed inventory reviews to support reduction strategies, ensuring supply continuity.
• Collaborate with Finance and Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) teams for disposition of obsolete and slow-moving stock.
• Maintain stock accuracy in SAP through cycle counts to ensure integrity in production and raw material scheduling.
• Coordinate cycle counting and inventory functions across multiple locations.
• Analyze inventory to identify slow-moving and expired items, investigating and addressing accuracy issues.
• Report inventory metrics and provide actionable insights in Continuous Improvement meetings.
• Contribute to the development of inventory strategies for existing items, new products, and phase-outs.
• Coordinate annual physical inventory and stock count activities at third-party warehouses and consignment customer locations.
• Support production order creation, raw material selection, and generation of process logs to initiate manufacturing; monitor material consumption and timely closure of production orders.
• Coordinate with production planners to integrate business planning inputs for NPI and EOL while considering capacity constraints.
• Monitor raw material availability and liaise with Procurement to resolve shortages.
• Participate in daily site meetings to review current production status and highlight operational issues.
• Handle Management of Change (MOC) processes related to the supply chain.
• Assist in setting planning methodologies in SAP (Make-to-Order, Make-to-Forecast) and safety stocks with periodic reviews.
• Support long-term manufacturing planning with rough-cut capacity planning and active participation in the Fixed Planning process.
• Collaborate with the Supply Chain team and cross-functional stakeholders to implement best practices and foster a culture of continuous improvement both internally and with suppliers.
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to support seamless materials management.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Machinery Manufacturing