Material Planning (Buyer) Responsibilities
- Responsible for raw material replenishment. Maintain supply visibility of minimum 3 months.
- Secure delivery confirmation from suppliers for all PO.
- Expedite material deliveries to support production & customer orders.
- Bottleneck & allocation management for materials in critical shortage.
- Ensure integrity of master data & parameters in SAP & add*ONE system to enable automatic MRP planning. Drive Purchasing to maintain Purchasing/Vendor master data that is relevant to MRP run.
- Manage material auto replenishment within warehouses via mini macro & min-max setting.
- Track & monitor supplier delivery performance (SSL3) & define improvement measures.
- Track, monitor & manage material phase-in/out resulting from Engineering changes, product/material EOL, etc. Adjust material planning according to product & material life cycle.
- Manage special procurement activities, eg. Last Time Buy (LTB), purchase below MOQ, risk purchase in the event of vendor change, supplier relocation, mold down for modification.
- Regularly review supplier capacity to identify restriction. Escalate to Purchasing & discuss measures to solve capacity constraints.
- Manage & track safety stock to support business fluctuations.
- Raw materials inventory management & control according to TCT target. Reschedule SA/PO to suppliers based on forecast changes & inventory target.
- Manage excess & obsolete (E&O) stock. Analyze stock coverage, define & take actions for stock optimization.
- Coordinate RTV process for supplier logistics quality issues (wrong part / wrong quantity).
- Liaise with PUQ & PQE on RTV & replacement due to technical issues.
Production Planning Responsibilities
- Rough Production Planning (RPP) for mid to long term up to 24 months.
- Level production loading according to BPS maturity requirement.
- Convert, release & schedule production orders according to levelling pattern.
- Ensure data integrity of production/planned order & RPP to drive correct MRP run.
- Regular alignment of production capacity with manufacturing team.
- Monitor and follow up production output, sub assembly progress & customer order fulfillment.
- Drive production to achieve target output & produce the right mix of SKUs and sub assembly. Define measures to reduce production backlog.
LPV Responsibilities
- Logistics team member (LPV) for NPI - new launches & ALRs.
- Support samples & pilot runs.
- Attend & contribute actively in project meetings, work with cross functional team to achieve timely SOP.
- Attend & contribute actively in product launch meeting (PLT) & update production/delivery status.
- Drive project team to order materials according to lead time. Contribute in the execution of risk orders.
- Together with project buyer (BPV), drive material readiness to achieve ramp up plan.
- Analyze & communicate feasibility & restrictions to achieve ramp up plan.
- Maintain MM & release pronovia timely & accurately to enable automatic MRP planning.
- Coordinate new material packaging lot size for kanban card preparation before SOP.
- Ad hoc tasks as and when required.
