Supply Chain Planner
Cummins West Africa Limited
Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Pune, Maharashtra
Contract type: Full time
Description
Key Responsibilities:
Competencies:
Skills and Experience:
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage a team of 4-8 members.
- Coordinate with internal and external supplier base and stakeholders across various functions.
- Process and monitor orders against suppliers.
- Work towards meeting the supply plan.
- Monitor and make adjustments to the planned and release procurement signals and expedite as necessary.
- Develop planning system strategies to improve signals across the supply chain.
- Use common processes, tools, and information systems.
- Analyze and interpret Key Performance Indicators to identify areas for improvement and action plans.
- Execute the daily operational planning process within a specified functional area.
- Identify potential supply chain failures as part of the planning process and mitigate associated risks.
- Work closely with stakeholders - internal and/or external to develop short-term tactical improvements.
- Use the planning system to drive consistent planning signals across the supply chain.
- Participate in functional process improvement teams.
- Metrics analysis & reporting. Experience in Kinaxis, Xelus, GOMS, and aftermarket material planning.
Competencies:
- Communicates effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
- Customer focus: Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
- Drives results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
- Global perspective: Taking a broad view when approaching issues, using a global lens.
- Manages complexity: Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
- Optimizes work processes: Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.
- Materials Planning System Utilization: Uses the materials planning system to manage supply and demand plans, taking long-term corrective action on exception messages and other alerts based on root cause analysis; occasionally refers to ad hoc tools such as Excel, Access, TOAD, OMS, etc. in performing problem-solving, while leveraging the materials planning system as the primary tool in day-to-day operations.
- Part Change Control Management: Evaluates and implements engineering change requests (obsolescence, supersessions, new part release, etc.) to meet customer delivery requirements while minimizing excess and obsolete inventory.
- Plan for Every Part (PFEP): Uses PFEP in planning, designing, and management of systems and processes within a facility to ensure delivery of the right part at the right time in the right quantity to the right place, which in turn guarantees smooth operations; applies PFEP principles on the end-to-end supply chain with particular attention to the relationships between master data management, materials planning parameters, engineered material flows, transport management, and warehouse management.
- Master Supply Scheduling: Establishes and maintains a valid Master Production Schedule for a family of products, which meets customer’s expectations and requirements while maximizing operational efficiency; validates procurement scheduling, production scheduling, and replenishment planning are aligned to manufacturing and assembly assets for conversion.
- Material Planning: Uses advanced tools (e.g., Advanced Planning Command Centre, Business Intelligence (BI) Dashboards, etc.) to make decisions related to parts availability, inventory optimization, and root cause analysis.
- Materials KPI Management: Operates in relation to recent or historical outputs as compared to expectations of the organization to determine next steps to drive improvement; assesses gaps in the supply chain performance against the expectation of achieving target deliverables; interprets KPIs to understand end-customer impact; strategically balances trade-offs to influence one KPI while minimizing the impact on others.
- Values differences: Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.
- College, university, or equivalent degree required.
- This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.
Skills and Experience:
- Experience in Kinaxis, Xelus, GOMS, and aftermarket material planning.
- This role requires support in the US time zone and hence the incumbent needs to operate in Night Shift (5 PM to 2 AM IST).
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