Planner III @ Commscope

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Using corporate ERP system (SAP), create material inventory/purchasing plans, capacity plans, and shop-loading parameters based on customer forecasts, current sales, seasonal trends and information received from sales in order to reduce response time to Customer demands and increase market share.
• Maintain this forecast in response to the following situations:

availability and lead-time of components
market forces
increased/reduced demand
global corporate inventory policy
weekly exception report

• Fine-tune resource requirements - materials, headcount, shifts, etc - to match expected demand, or to compensate for any known resource shortages
• Creates schedules for production areas (master production schedule) and suppliers (MRP call-off purchase orders), to match actual customer demand, ensuring that material and production resources are effectively used. Re-analysing and adjusting schedules as necessary to ensure the optimal flow of work in the production areas with consideration for customer needs, manufacturing capabilities, and material and manpower constraints.
• Identifies changes in capacity or material availability to sales. Elevates issues to management which negatively impacts the MPS, and hence availability to customer
• Responsible for applying best material availability dates to Sales Orders and Quotations by analysing the Bill of Material and Plant Capacity.
• Expedite supplier materials to meet master schedule needs, Liaising with Shipping Agents regarding imports of Air and Ocean Freight, providing VAT Deferment Authorisation, delivery schedules and requests.
• Liaise with counterparts at other client locations to establish global inventory strategies, reducing response time to customers who require high value/low usage components within a short lead times
• Release works orders from Master Production Schedule to various productions to ensure product availability in line with customer orders.
• Modify this schedule daily in response to the following changes

customer demands/priorities
material availability
quality/engineering issues
manpower availability
drawing/engineering changes notes (ECN)

• Determine production priorities and communicate to production teams at daily 08.30am meetings and ensure that these priorities are completed in order to achieve the customer request date.
• Also responsible for investigating any discrepancies, utilising ERP systems, around accuracy of inventory (raw, WIP, finished goods), shipments, returns, and invoices
• Provide local and corporate management with KPM (key performance metrics) around inventory holding (active and slow-moving), and capacity utilization, with recommendations to optimize same.
• Responsible for investigating possible alternative uses of excess and slow moving stock in order to reduce and eliminate this specific area of inventory and optimise usage of material.

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Employement Category:

Employement Type: Full time
Industry: IT
Functional Area: Architecture
Role Category: Town Planner
Role/Responsibilies: Planner III

Contact Details:

Company: Commscope
Location(s): India ,  Goa/Barangay Salog

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