Materials - Inventory Analyst
CumminsAbout the role
In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:
- Promoting Safety: By reporting any work-related injuries, illnesses, incidents, or hazards, and complying with HSE standards, you'll help maintain a safe work environment.
- Ensuring Quality: Performing quality checks on material planning master data and working with Quality to handle non-conforming materials will ensure high standards are met.
- Supporting Delivery: Initiating purchase and work orders, and collaborating with suppliers to balance supply and demand, will help meet the demand plan efficiently.
- Improving Inventory Management: Repositioning excess inventory and managing part change requests will minimize excess and obsolete inventory, ensuring optimal stock levels.
- Enhancing Supplier Performance: Participating in the Deliver Supplier Improvement Process initiative will help improve supplier performance metrics and overall supply chain efficiency.
- Effective Communication: Providing accurate, timely updates on inventory availability and back order recovery plans will keep all stakeholders informed and aligned.
- Team Collaboration: Communicating effectively within your team and with support teams will foster a collaborative work environment and drive continuous improvement projects.
- Personal Development: Engaging in training and personal development will ensure you meet business requirements and achieve your career goals, contributing to the overall success of the organization.
To be successful in this role you will need the following:
- Effective Communication: Develop and deliver clear, multi-mode communications tailored to the unique needs of different audiences.
- Customer Focus: Build strong relationships with customers and deliver solutions that meet their needs, ensuring customer satisfaction.
- Results-Driven: Consistently achieve results, even under challenging circumstances, demonstrating resilience and determination.
- Complexity Management: Make sense of complex and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems and make informed decisions.
- Process Optimization: Know the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Materials Planning System Utilization: Use the materials planning system to manage supply and demand plans, taking corrective actions based on root cause analysis, and leveraging tools like Excel and Access for problem-solving.
- Part Change Control Management: Evaluate and implement engineering change requests to meet customer delivery requirements while minimizing excess and obsolete inventory.
- Plan for Every Part (PFEP): Apply PFEP principles to ensure the right part is delivered at the right time, in the right quantity, to the right place, ensuring smooth operations across the supply chain.
- Master Supply Scheduling: Establish and maintain a valid Master Production Schedule that meets customer expectations and maximizes operational efficiency.
- Materials KPI Management: Operate based on historical outputs and organizational expectations to drive improvement, assess supply chain performance gaps, and balance trade-offs to influence KPIs.
- Valuing Differences: Recognize and appreciate the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to the organization, fostering an inclusive environment.
Competencies:
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.
Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
Manages complexity - Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
Optimizes work processes - Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.
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; occasionally refers to adhoc tools such as Excel, Access, TOAD, OMS, etc. in performing problem solving, while leveraging the materials planning system as the primary tool in day-to-day operations.
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