Material Planner

Division: BENTELER Automotive 
Functional Area: Supply Chain Management 
Career Level: Professional 
Contract Type: Permanent/Full-time 
Weekly Working Hours: 40.00 
Required Languages: English 
Requisition ID: 42246 

Benefits: United States : 401(k) Match || United States : Dental || United States : Development || United States : Educational Assistance || United States : Flexible Work Schedules || United States : Health Savings Accounts || United States : Holidays || United States : Life & Disability || United States : Medical || United States : Training || United States : Vacation || United States : Vision || United States : Wealth Management Support 

 

At BENTELER, we make it possible. From promoting individual talents to international career prospects, or from generous opportunities for designing your career to personal development opportunities—at BENTELER, we always have answers to your questions about the future, based entirely on your personal needs. Diverse options that makes sure you can be anything and everything. Or, as we like to put it: BENTELER makes it happen!

 

Job Description

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

• Perform cycle counts for assigned part numbers
• Be a member of a plant CIP team to represent the Supply Chain Management team and be the point person for all Supply Chain related issues
• Mandatory participation in year end Physical Inventory (typically 1st or 2nd Saturday in December)
• Inserts, if necessary, customer data into SAP and ensures material availability for customer releases/call-offs
• Ensures faultless MRP (material requirement plan) and corrects mistakes
• Sends releases/call-offs to suppliers and tracks on time delivery of materials
• Verifies and manages material availability
• Avoids material shortage
• Responsible for planning trucking and sea freight utilization with customer specific cargo planning
• In case of material shortage or delay - escalates in time, promptly and with high quality data
• Cross checks customer call offs vs. contracted volume / capacity
• Makes suggestions to reduce working capital (raw material, finished parts)
• Coordinates Process "Develop & Launch" activities including engineering changes, SOP and EOP
• Manages the stocks days on hand
• Makes sure the correct usage of SAP parameter
• Conducts inventory spot checks, ASN verification and reconciliation
• Uses customer portals accurately
• Provides support to all activities assigned by the direct supervisor.

 

 

Qualifications and Experience:

• 3 years experience in Transportatio