What are the responsibilities and job description for the Materials Analyst position at Adient?
Job Description
The ideal candidate will play a key role in managing all material flow activities — ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and compliance within our ERP and supply chain processes. This position offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on daily operations and long-term performance goals.
Responsibilities
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The ideal candidate will play a key role in managing all material flow activities — ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and compliance within our ERP and supply chain processes. This position offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on daily operations and long-term performance goals.
Responsibilities
- Maintain the ERP system for all material functional areas, including Item Master, BOM, ship-to locations, and inventory parameters.
- Create and manage daily production schedules, ensuring production output is recorded and posted accurately in the ERP system.
- Communicate “No Surprise” forms to customers when supply shortages occur.
- Review daily MRP supply reports and take appropriate corrective action as needed.
- Identify and correct customer cumulative and supplier inaccuracies.
- Track component inventory inaccuracies, determine root causes, and implement corrective actions.
- Perform daily cycle counts and reconcile inventory variances.
- Track and report premium freight events and downtime caused by suppliers.
- Create debit memos for cost recovery and communicate DMRs to assigned suppliers.
- Obtain disposition for quality hold materials.
- Track supplier communication status for engineering changes proposed by program management.
- Report daily on all key materials performance metrics, including inventory valuation, cycle counts, inventory accuracy, and past due parts.
- Achieve assigned inventory valuation and turn targets.
- Actively participate in Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) investigations and 8D problem-solving processes.
- Report accidents, occupational illnesses, or HSE emergencies and communicate unsafe conditions promptly.
- Ensure compliance with all safety and BOS/MMSA procedures within assigned production areas.
- 3–5 years of related experience in materials, supply chain, or production planning.
- Strong ERP/MRP system knowledge and data accuracy orientation.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Commitment to safety, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
- Automotive background highly desirable.
- Strong proficiency in Excel
- Experience and comfort working in Just-In-Time (JIT) environments.
- Associate’s degree in a related field (preferred).
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