What are the responsibilities and job description for the Material Planner position at Tekshapers?
Job Title: Material Planner
Location: - Arden, NC-Onsite
Employment Type: : Fulltime
Job Description:
In this role, you will coordinate with our production planning and customer service teams to optimize inventory and support plant operations. You will develop and execute our supply plan and releases, determining priorities and implementing strategies to reduce out-of-stock and excess stock issues. You will also help support our production schedule, taking into consideration the forecasted demand for finished items and our raw material needs.
ESSENTIAL Responsibilities:
- Maintain a long-term supply schedule/plan, taking into consideration the needs forecasted by our production planning team
- Resolve material shortages, backlogs, and other potential schedule interruptions
- Request recovery plan if suppliers fall behind schedule and meet with suppliers to ensure plan is successfully implemented
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
- Send EDI release to suppliers after maintenance and updates
- Execution of exception messaging
- Run and manage inbound supplier delivery report
- Review and tracking inbound/outbound shipments
- Daily communication to vendors on delivery ETA’s and critical needs
- Level supplier schedules and split loads for high volume parts
- Manual schedules to suppliers/warehouses where necessary
- Review and mitigate risk to plan on production demand increases/decreases
- Update supplier delivery dates in SAP as necessary
- Manage supplier shipping portals
- Manage various material requirements reports upon request
- Communication of missing components to support production and notify of potential impacts
- Mange material run out/impact reports for suppliers and internal teams
- Update/maintain in transit sheets and tracking of material ETA’s
- Supplier backlog tracking/communication
- Supplier OTD reporting
- Raw inventory forecasting
- Tariff reporting and support
- Support internal team with the engineering change management process
- Support New Product Launch Team
- Material master data maintenance
- Setup expedited freight for critical supplier materials when necessary
- Manage consignment consumptions reports for suppliers/accounting
- Provide packing slips and paperwork for receiving needs when necessary
- SAP Scheduling agreement setting updates and maintenance
- Provide quality support on current vendor issues and sort/holds
“Tekshapers is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.”