Supply Chain Scheduler

About The Role

As a Supply Chain Scheduler, you will be:

• In charge of the inventory level of their raw materials and components families: Follow up the MPS achievement and propose preventative actions regarding material availability to ensure MPS realization.
• Responsible for setting up proper raw materials and components inventory levels. Define and lead actions connected with inventory reductions with their components families.
• Measure the Supplier Service Rate – SSR - for each supplier. Propose action plans to improve the service level.
• Follow up and report daily the inventory level of their raw material and components families.
• Make sure that the materials and components are available to meet the complete customer demand: Plan the raw materials and components requirement based upon Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning and Master Production Schedule and anticipate potential impacts with suppliers and with production.
• Validate and send on a weekly basis forecasts to the suppliers
• Make sure that raw materials and components are available to meet customer demand
• Follow up daily the material arrivals according to firm orders and make sure suppliers ship parts on time according to firm orders.
• On a regular basis, communicate complete, precise & reliable information to the Supplier contacts. Adapt the chosen method of communication to the level of the Supplier contact. Adapt the frequency to the situation (preventative, curative, crisis).
• Identify blocking points and plan appropriate quick actions to solve them: Attend Logistics/Purchasing meetings and follow up related action plans.
• Support the implementation with the appropriate departments (APU, Logistics, Purchasing, VPS) tools and methods in order to improve the supply chain organization like Pull flow, Kanban, EDI, Milk run.
• Define with the External flow analyst the inbound transportation plans.
• Support actively the inventory counting and propose actions to maintain accuracy of inventory in cooperation with the ERP and inventory control analyst.
• Alert sales in the event of a crisis (Customer or internal), to define priorities with the Customer & internally (management, VS for the aftermarket), follow the evolution of any associated action plans. If necessary, escalate.
• Meet the Suppliers contacts on a regular basis (once a year for major Suppliers).
• Propose logistics protocol with suppliers in co-operation with External flow analyst and Purchasing.
• Make sure that there is a backup for each Suppliers & train the backup on the way to manage the Suppliers’ account; ensure that during holidays the position is covered & that both suppliers and internal customers are notified in advance of the absence and informed of the person that will be temporarily managing the Suppliers’ account.

What You Should Have

• Technical Bachelor’s of Science degree
• 3+ years of experience with Supply Chain and/or Logistics
• At least 1 year of experience in Supply Chain and/or Logistics at a high speed manufacturing plant
• Knowledge of SAP is preferred
• Automotive experience is preferred
• Strong analytical skills
• Experience with Google or Microsoft Administrative applications