Description
Key Responsibilities
• Scheduling Agreements: Own and maintain scheduling agreements for an assigned supplier portfolio, issuing weekly and daily releases that reflect current MRP-driven requirements.
• MRP-Driven Replenishment: Review MRP output daily to convert net requirements into supplier releases, targeting zero missed release cycles.
• Customer Demand Translation: Monitor upstream customer demand and order changes and cascade updated requirements to suppliers within 24 hours of a material demand shift.
• Inbound Delivery Monitoring: Use SAP S/4HANA to monitor inbound delivery against the planned production schedule, pulling forward, delaying, or cancelling purchase orders as needed to hit inventory KPIs.
• PCNL Administration: Initiate, track, and close out Production/Purchase Change Notice-Letters with suppliers, ensuring engineering and quality sign-off is documented before implementation.
• Supplier Risk Management: Maintain a supplier risk register, run weekly capacity and shortage checks with key suppliers, and escalate at-risk parts a minimum of 5 business days before impact.
• Freight and Logistics: Manage freight partners and resolve inbound logistics issues, logging and reporting expedited freight costs monthly.
• Supplier Performance: Track and report supplier on-time delivery and quality performance monthly, driving corrective action for suppliers below target.
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, Business, Logistics, or equivalent experience; 3 to 5 years in supplier or materials planning within automotive or comparably regulated manufacturing.
• Demonstrated experience managing customer demand and orders and translating them into supplier-facing requirements.
• Hands-on MRP experience within an ERP system, including net requirement review and release generation.
• Direct experience creating and maintaining supplier scheduling agreements and processing PCNL documenta
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
May provide direction or coordination as needed. Collaboration and cooperation with others is essential.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
- Little physical effort required.
- Occasionally lift up to 35 pounds.
- Regularly sit, stand, reach, and move throughout the plant.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Work is performed in both an office and plant environment. Safety glasses and steel-toe shoes are required when performing specific tasks or working in designated manufacturing areas.
