Production Control Specialist
About The Position
Acts as a liaison between affiliates and the customer to ensure that the delivery of products meets customer requirements, schedules and expectations. Interfaces with customer production control in product planning activities. Troubleshoots issues and resolves problems as necessary. Sets up and processes customer orders in light of inventory targets and delivery schedules. Places orders to affiliates to meet customer requirements and inventory targets. Authorizes shipments to customers. Analyzes ordering trends and supports domestic plants and import business in planning and preparing for product launches and/or major changes, and by coordinating phase-in/out of products. Participates in managing slow moving and obsolescence inventory and in periodic physical inventory management and audit activity. Designs, modifies, updates and ensures the maintenance of departmental databases. Compiles materials management related information. Analyzes variances in planned versus actual targets and reports information to management and for use in sales planning activities. Provides support to business development group on materials control issues and conducts special projects as required. May mentor and/or provide guidance to lower-level colleagues. Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in business administration with an emphasis on Materials Management or related fields
- Written and verbal communication skills
- Analytical and problem-solving skills to resolve difficult or complicated situations that are often sensitive in nature
- Customer service skills to promote and support a service-oriented environment
- Demonstrated proficiency in computer software and mainframe applications in order to perform word processing, data manipulation and file maintenance activities
- Familiarity with web browsing applications from an information retrieval/data research perspective
- Knowledge of the principles of production control and logistics in order to be able to understand customer releases production and order flow processing and systems
- Process improvement (kaizen) mindset
- Ability to apply the PDCA process to identify potential process improvements
Responsibilities
- Acts as a liaison between affiliates and the customer
- Interfaces with customer production control in product planning activities
- Troubleshoots issues and resolves problems
- Sets up and processes customer orders
- Places orders to affiliates
- Authorizes shipments to customers
- Analyzes ordering trends
- Supports domestic plants and import business in planning and preparing for product launches and/or major changes, and by coordinating phase-in/out of products
- Participates in managing slow moving and obsolescence inventory and in periodic physical inventory management and audit activity
- Designs, modifies, updates and ensures the maintenance of departmental databases
- Compiles materials management related information
- Analyzes variances in planned versus actual targets and reports information to management and for use in sales planning activities
- Provides support to business development group on materials control issues and conducts special projects as required
- May mentor and/or provide guidance to lower-level colleagues
- Performs other duties as assigned
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
