Material Planner

Emotiv


Date: 1 week ago
City: Kansas City, KS
Contract type: Full time
Key Areas of Responsibility (Answerable for the following end results)

Planner Responsibilities

  • Responsible to fully manage assigned parts and their respective suppliers, including all problem resolutions.
  • Develop suppliers regarding improving their delivery performance.
  • Coordinate engineering changes and build schedules with suppliers and production such that customer expectations are met while minimizing obsolescence exposure performance measurable on a regular basis.
  • Analyze MRP & RPS weekly or daily to produce supplier releases for repetitive production material.
  • Investigate all inventory discrepancies for assigned parts / programs.
  • Utilize MRP and RPS to ensure optimum planning parameters such that inventory levels are sufficient
  • Utilize RPS to communicate supplier.
  • Communicates directly with customers on all delivery and engineering change issues.
  • Communicate min violations, as required to the customer (Holt Specific).
  • Coordinate expedites of production material from suppliers as needed in support of established production requirements in a JIT environment. Responsible for premium freight for assigned parts.
  • General customer obsolescence claims.
  • Communicates any supplier discrepancies to suppliers, appropriate materials personnel and management on all shifts.
  • Assist in all inventory activities.
  • Assumes special assignments as directed by Materials Manager, Assistant Materials Manager or Materials Planning Supervisor that include, but are not limited to, inventory control issues and supplier problem resolution.
  • Provides back up support for Material Coordinator (Holt Specific).
  • Document all activities as required.
  • Adhere to all company guidelines for Emergency Evacuation to ensure employee safety.
  • Any additional responsibility deemed necessary by management.

Louisville Specific

  • Pull and analyze releases daily, make corrections as required, and research customer release errors.
  • Trouble shoot issues of concern within the materials system and communicate issues.
  • Maintain material system data integrity, and research integrity issues.
  • Load all necessary data to enable appropriate planning of production parts.
  • Write and modify Uni-query.
  • Correct and troubleshoot XTC errors.

Hazel Park Specific

  • Setting up expedites/ extra loads – spot buys
  • XPO Manifest – review all XPO shipments daily
  • Coordinates customs and brokerage issues for production materials as necessary, while ensuring compliance with NAFTA, GATT, federal and state regulations. Daily custom clearance and border crossing
  • JAS Forwarding – Ocean shipments from ZF Gotha – schedule – follow
  • CN Tracking, schedules, setting appointments for delivery
  • Dock Schedule – setting windows at HZL Dock (including reload)
  • Work with suppliers on window schedules
  • Manage routing instructions
  • Supplier compliance – shipping
  • Carrier compliance
  • Run EDR with trks every Monday
  • Entering DPR’s in T4M
  • Dunnage – manage outbound shipments back to supplier (assure reloads are executing)

Oracle

  • Oracle update – adding accessorial charges/ costing in LMS.
  • Freight Plan
  • Cleaning up LMS – managing carriers/ keep system up to date with cancelled loads, carrier updates etc.
  • Entering Spot buys in LMS
  • Adding/ updating charges from old shipments

Limits of Authority

  • Advise Department Manager of those situations that may pose a significant risk to the program, product assurance, facilities, and employee safety or customer satisfaction results.
  • Initiate actions to prevent the occurrence of any nonconformance relating to product, process & systems.
  • Identify and record any problems relating to the product, process or system.
  • Initiate, recommend or provide solutions through the appropriate channels and verify implementation.
  • Control further processing and delivery of nonconforming product until the deficiency is corrected.

Basic Education, Experience And Skills Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Minimum of 1 -3 year of experience in executing integrated manufacturing software within a material control department, preferably in an automotive environment.
  • Strong analytical ability to independently comprehend inventory levels as affected by various inputs and controls.
  • Strong computer skills (Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Trans4M).
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Assertive, effective expediting skills.
  • Self-disciplined to perform many assorted assignments within an automotive JIT environment.
  • CPM, APP or CPIM Certification desirable.
  • Able to maintain confidential information.
  • Import/Export Knowledge a benefit

Internal Training (Minimum Requirements)

  • Emotiv Orientation
  • Emotiv Vision and Culture
  • Departmental Training
    • Process 05 – Materials Management
    • Process 07 – Engineering Change
    • Process 04 – Purchasing and Supplier Development
    • Significant Aspects Overview
    • Clark Broadcast Database
    • Open Issues Database
    • Change Control Database
    • Supply Web
    • GM Supply Power
    • Covisint
    • DCX 7 Step
    • Ford CMMS, EDDL
    • Ford WERS
    • Ford ILVS
    • Ford 8D
    • Ford SIMS
    • Ford GPIRS
    • Ford Packaging, Labeling, Shipping and Routing Guidelines
    • Ford MMOG
    • Ford CPV2
  • Company Training
    • Information Technology
    • Outlook
    • Trans4M Overview
    • Purchase Requisitions
    • Quality Mission Statement
    • Expense Reporting
    • Travel Management System
Health, Safety And Physical Demand Requirements

  • Normal amount of sitting and standing, average mobility to move around an office and plant environment, able to conduct normal amount of work on a computer.

Risks Associated with Job Function

  • None

Travel Requirements

  • Up to 10% travel required
  • Valid driver’s license required

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