Supply Chain Management Planner

Objective of Job: 

• Provides production orders and demand numbers to raw material planning
• Scheduling and smoothing the lines to meet inventory targets, efficiency and general cost targets 
• Independent, cost-conscious production planning with the greatest possible adherence to schedule while maintaining stock target goals 

Principal Activities: 

• Provides work orders to production
• Adapt, update and optimize the HOST and Demand Viewer system planning areas
• Check open work orders and production groups
• Update change notices in cooperation with the departments
• Update KPI’s
• Define old and new revision levels in cooperation with change management
• Smooth the customers demand and coordinate with procurement, raw material planning and production
• Ensures production has no downtime
• Takes care for availability of empty containers to provide to production
• Gives priorities to production, transportation, warehouse
• Optimize processes in scheduling
• Communicates with customer contacts and maintains an effective business relationship
• Handle error reports and HOST lists
• Cooperates with production, quality, procurement, sales, change management and warehouse
• Coordinate changes with quality, change management, sales, raw material planning and sales order coordination
• Handle special situations (such as CKD, ramp ups, ramp downs, bank builds, spare parts, pre-series, individual)
• Provides production system support
• Ensures things are clean and neat
• Follows work instructions and safety guidelines

Job Requirements: 

• Bachelor's Degree in business or equivalent experience 
• Would prefer advanced vocational/technical training with several years of on-the-job training (knowledge of specialized methods, techniques, and processes and basic understanding of a body of theoretical knowledge) 
• 1-2 years of automotive experience 
• Strong technical knowledge of Microsoft products