Supply Planning Coordinator

**DESCRIPTION**

Key Responsibilities:
**Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE)**:

- Reports any work-related injury, illness, incident, or hazard.
- Complies with HSE standards, policies, procedures, and regulations.
- Engages in HSE training.

**Quality**:

- Follows applicable standard work, process documentation, and quality procedures.
- Performs quality checks on material planning master data (lead time, order quantities, etc.) taking action to support Plan for Every Part (PFEP).
- Works with Quality to disposition non-conforming material in a timely manner.

**Delivery**:

- Initiates purchase and work orders to support the demand plan.
- Participates in allocation calls with Sourcing Manager, supplier, and other Cummins entities to understand the nature and impact of constraints.
- Works with suppliers to reduce lead time and order quantities, balancing supply with demand.
- Collaborates with Supply Chain Planners across the organization to reposition excess inventory to locations with supporting demand.
- Provides accurate, timely updates specific to inventory availability and back order recovery plans.
- Manages part change requests and ramp-up/ramp-down activities to meet demand while minimizing excess and obsolete inventory.
- Reconciles order boards for critical suppliers, critical parts, and past due orders on a routine basis.
- Supports the Deliver Supplier Improvement Process initiative to improve performance metrics.
- Documents, communicates, and follows up on action items impacting the ability to execute the plan.
- Takes ownership and accountability for the delivery of supplier schedules that support end customer needs.
- Demonstrates the target level of proficiency in core competencies.
- Remains flexible and performs other miscellaneous duties, as required, to meet business goals.

**Teamwork**:

- Communicates effectively within the assigned team and with all support teams.
- Completes training and personal development in line with business requirements and career goals.
- Participates in improvement (quality, safety, process, material flow, etc.) projects.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Experience**:

- Requires significant relevant work experience or specialized skills obtained through education, training, or on-the-job experience in an equivalent field such as materials planning, production scheduling, manufacturing, or inventory control.

**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.
- **Part Change Control Management** : Evaluates and implements engineering change requests to meet customer delivery requirements while minimizing excess and obsolete inventory.
- **Plan for Every Part (PFEP)** : Uses PFEP principles to ensure the delivery of the right part at the right time in the right quantity to the right place.
- **Master Supply Scheduling** : Establishes and maintains a valid Master Production Schedule for a family of products.
- **Materials KPI Management** : Operates in relation to recent or historical outputs as compared to expectations of the organization to determine next steps to drive improvement.
- **Values differences** : Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

**QUALIFICATIONS**

**Qualifications**:

- High school diploma or certificate of completion of secondary education or equivalent experience to the extent such experience meets applicable regulations.
- College, University, or equivalent degree in Business, Engineering, or related field preferred.
- This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

**Knowledge/Skills**:
**Functional Skills**:

- Material Planning / Supplier Procurement (Must have)
- Know-how of Material Availability/Shortage issues (Must have)
- Worked on Inventory Reduction (preferred)
- Knows use of Safety stocks (preferred)
- Allocation Planning/Constraint planning (Nice to have)
- System use (Oracle/SAP) (Nice to have)

**Enterprise Skills**:

- Learning attitude (Must have learned something new in recent past) (Must have)
- Prioritization (Working under pressure) (preferred)
- Communication (Basic level)

**Job** Supply Chain Planning

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