DESCRIPTION

Key Responsibilities:

Ensure internal and external customers expectations and requirements are met.
Manage the daily operational processes for a critical segment of the supply chain.
Eliminate potential supply chain failures as part of the daily planning process.
Champion preventive practices to eliminate expediting to supply chain leadership as appropriate to prevent problems.
Lead cross-functional stakeholders to develop and implement short and mid-term tactical improvements.
Comply with communication plans and processes to ensure stakeholders needs are met.
Leverage common processes, tools, and information systems.
Approve system strategies and advise on changes to planning systems parameters as required.
Analyze and interpret KPIs to identify areas for improvement and action plans.
Lead Six Sigma and functional process improvement teams.
Liaise with functional stakeholders to mitigate mid-term supplier or customer constraints.
Mentor and coach supply chain planners.
Ensure common processes are being utilized and internal controls are in place.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Qualifications:

Education: Engineering Degree (Must have)

Competencies:

Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
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.
Develops talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals.
Ensures accountability: Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
Global perspective: Taking a broad view when approaching issues, using a global lens.
Values differences: Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

QUALIFICATIONS

Knowledge/Skills:

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.
Part Change Control Management: Evaluates and implements engineering change requests 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.
Analysis and Troubleshooting: Extracts, transforms, models, interprets, and presents planning data to mine useful information, troubleshoot, suggest conclusions, and support value-creating decision-making.
Master Supply Scheduling: Establishes and maintains a valid Master Production Schedule for a family of products, meeting customer expectations and requirements while maximizing operational efficiency.
Material Planning: Uses advanced tools to make decisions related to parts availability, inventory optimization, and root cause analysis.
Materials KPI Management: Operates in relation to recent or historical outputs compared to organizational expectations to determine next steps for improvement.
Material Planning / Supplier Procurement (Must have):
Manages all aspects of the material plan based on requirements across the regional/global network.
Manages accuracy of aggregate supplier schedules onto suppliers.
Actively manage Supplier performance, identifying any aspect of suboptimal performance, driving accountability for improvement actions.
Know-how of Material Availability/Shortage issues (Must have):
Actively manage Supplier commitment.
Ensure material is made available through LT into the region.
Managing exceptions
Execute RCA on KPI misses and ensure these are converted into SMART plans (Must have)
Worked on Inventory Reduction (Preferred)
Knows use of Safety stocks (Preferred)
Allocation Planning/Constraint planning (Nice to have)
System use (Oracle/SAP) (Nice to have)

Enterprise Skills:

Learning attitude
Prioritization & Working under pressure (Must have)
Good English Communication skills (Both speaking and writing)

Experience:

8-12 years in Material Planning / Procurement / Production planning (Must have)
Handling Critical Suppliers and allocation of 30-40 suppliers / 1000+ parts
Experience in Manufacturing Plant material planning (Nice to have)

Job Supply Chain Planning

Organization Cummins Inc.

Role Category Hybrid

Job Type Exempt - Experienced

ReqID 2411382

Relocation Package No

Supply Chain Planner

Supply Chain Planner- Senior