Plant Vendor Planner

Position Summary

Main role in ensuring seamless logistics and planning activities, acting as point of contact between cross functions and stakeholders, ensuring materials are well scheduled, evaluated and accurately delivered on time, every time. Using agility and ability to cover customer demand, to solve escalations and achieve metrics, and help with improving processes and drive inventory targets.                                                                                                                   

Key Job Areas of Responsibilities                                                                                            

2.1. Supply planning

• As part of Site Supply Chain is responsible to track and trace material’s physical flows. Responsible for MRP run & planning activities for local suppliers.
• Responsible for COPQ activities, OTTR & OPD approval/rejections for locally plan suppliers.
• Responsible for premium freights for suppliers which are managed locally.
• Reviews and verifies quantities received against schedules, bills of landing, purchase requests, shipping documents and checks consistencies with ASN (Advanced shipping notification).
• Coordinates with Logistics/Production/Quality depts. to ensure accurate material information is entered into SAP and O9.
• Point of contact for first 2 weeks of CTB (Clear to Build).
• Act as link between planning (MPS planners) & regional team.
• Works closely with Production Planner to ensure accurate material consumption and inventory accuracy.
• Verifies component or raw material availability before releasing short term production plan to the production floor.
• Notifies Production Planner and Planning Leader of material situation that affects the fulfilment of the production plan.
• Interacts with GVP (Global Vendor Planner) in order to expedite and de-expedite parts and raw materials to fulfil daily production schedule’s change.
• Drives quick solutions in case of sudden issues (quality issue or stock inaccuracy).
• Arranges, coordinate with GVP and tracks special freights from Suppliers.
• Is responsible to provide and improve information flows with GVP.  
• Strictly works with GVP in order to optimise inventory levels.                                                             

2.2. Supplier crisis management

• Identifies excess, slow move and obsolete inventory issues and resolves them along with Physical Flow and Inventory Analyst.
• Assists Planning Leader in resolving problems concerning over shipments, shortages, engineering changes, and cancellation of orders.
• Provides support for the production transfers and the introduction of new reference points in production.
• Provides the issuance of reports, advising appropriate management function of status of parts flow or lack there of.
• Participates daily in the logistics meetings and any other necessary meetings and call conferences.
• Participates weekly in the production planning meetings and ensures the elaboration of the necessary data.
• Knows and works with specific planning instruments: MPS, MRP, O9.
• Operates in SAP and MHS according to the existing procedures.                              

2.3. Supplier development

• Performs other duties as per assignment from direct management.
• Acts according to the Garrett conduct attributes and fulfils the performance objectives established by the manager through the MYR system.
• Observes the obligations and duties resulting from the management systems in production, quality, HS&E areas and other external and internal standards and regulations.
• Observes work rules and internal HS&E guidelines in the current wording.
• STRAP Alignment, AOP Alignment.                                     

2.4. Health, security, environment, emergency situations- individual responsibilities

• Performs the activity in accordance with own experience, knowledge and work instructions of the role, in a specific manner in which no person is exposed to accidents or professional illnesses.
• Prevents/ minimizes pollution of the environment.
• Utilizes in a correct way the machines, equipment, tools, dangerous substances, transportation vehicles or other production tools.
• Utilizes in a correct way the individual protection equipment.
• Does not proceed to taking out of service, modification, changing or removing by own will the own security devices, especially in case of machines, equipment, tools, technical installations and buildings and to use in a proper manner these devices.
• In case of fire emergency, informs direct manager, intervention team, firefighters and participates in extinguishing the fire.
• Immediately informs the manager about any work situation which has reason to consider it a threat to the safety and health of workers, as well as any deficiency of protection systems.
• Informs the manager about the accidents suffered at work.
• Participates at HSE trainings and to carry out related medical examinations.
• Cooperates, as long as it is necessary, with the employer and/or with the assigned workers, to enable the employer to ensure that the work environment and the working conditions are safe and without risks for their safety and health, in its field of activity.
• In case of fire emergency/ accidental spilling/work accident, must inform the direct manager, intervention team/ firefighters/ the medical rescue team and participates actively in accordance with the specific responsibilities from the directives of intervention plans or the emergency team.
• To acquire and to respect the provisions of the legislation in the field of health and safety at work, environment and SU and their application.                                                                                                                                                        

2.5. GEM requirements

Employee must respect, follow and support implementation of all GEM standards ( 6 Mains GEM Elements : 5S, Kaizen, RPS, Standard Work, TPM, 7 Waste + BIQ a Visual Management). His role is support and actively use digitization tools and automatic reporting. Is obliged to participate on continuous process improvement through Kaizen, KE and TKE (Improvement ideas).

2.6. Other requirements

Employee must respect and follow all requirements of other internal Garrett procedures, which influence his/her stated working activities. Employee performs other tasks according with company needs and links with job.                

Education / Qualifications

• University degree or equivalent required.                                                                                   

Experience

• Min. 2 years on Operations and Supply chain business experience.
• Experience in working with customer, suppliers, sales or logistics in the automotive industry as preferable

Key Skills and Knowledge

• Basic knowledge of Lean Manufacturing Principles.
• Knowledge of SAP, MHS modules, LMS, O9, processes (Demand planning, SIOP, MPS, BOM, MRP) and Microsoft Office applications.
• Cooperation with Global SC team.
• Understands Sales, Inventory & Operations Plan reports & analysis.
• Basic knowledge of production plan and inventory.
• Fluent in English, another European language as an advantage.
• Identify and resolve problems in a timely manner.
• Handle multiple tasks at a time.
• Work well under pressure.
• Good communicator & negotiation skills.
• Responsible to meet commitments and targets / deadlines.
• Customer focused and attention to detail.

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