Supply Chain Planner

**DESCRIPTION**

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Develop planning system strategies to improve signals across the supply chain.
- Monitor and adjust parameters in the planning system.
- Use common processes, tools, and information systems.
- Analyze and interpret Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to identify areas for improvement and action plans.
- Execute the daily operational planning process within a specified functional area.
- Identify potential supply chain failures as part of the planning process and mitigate associated risks.
- Work closely with stakeholders - internal and/or external to develop short-term tactical improvements.
- Use the planning system to drive consistent planning signals across the supply chain.
- Participate in functional process improvement teams.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Experience**:

- 3-5 years of overall experience required.

**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.
- **Global perspective**: Taking a broad view when approaching issues, using a global lens.
- **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.
- **Values differences**: Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

**QUALIFICATIONS**

**Qualifications**:

- College, university, or equivalent degree required.
- This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

**Skills**:

- **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 ad-hoc 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.
- **Part Change Control Management**: Evaluates and implements engineering change requests (obsolescence, supersessions, new part release, etc.) to meet customer delivery requirements while minimizing excess and obsolete inventory.
- **Plan for Every Part (PFEP)**: Uses PFEP in planning, designing, and managing systems and processes within a facility to ensure delivery of the right part at the right time in the right quantity to the right place, which guarantees smooth operations; applies PFEP principles on the end-to-end supply chain with particular attention to the relationships between master data management, materials planning parameters, engineered material flows, transport management, and warehouse management.
- **Master Supply Scheduling**: Establishes and maintains a valid Master Production Schedule for a family of products, which meets customer’s expectations and requirements while maximizing operational efficiency; validates procurement scheduling, production scheduling, and replenishment planning are aligned to manufacturing and assembly assets for conversion.
- **Material Planning**: Uses advanced tools (e.g., Advanced Planning Command Centre, Business Intelligence (BI) Dashboards, etc.) to make decisions related to parts availability, inventory optimization, and root cause analysis.
- **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; assesses gaps in the supply chain performance against the expectation of achieving target deliverables; interprets KPIs to understand end-customer impact; strategically balances trade-offs to influence one KPI while minimizing the impact on others.

**Knowledge/Skills**:

- Strong material planning knowledge with some analytics skills (TOAD, Power BI, advanced Excel).
- Coordination with internal or external supplier base and stakeholders across various functions.
- Processing and monitoring orders against suppliers.
- Work towards meeting the supply plan.
- Monitor and adjust the plan and release procurement signals and expedite as necessary.
- Metrics analysis and reporting, experience in Xelus, GOMS & aftermarket planning.

**Work Environment**:

- Hybrid working - Monday & Friday - Work From Home (WFH).
- Night Shift - 5 PM to 2 AM.

**Job** Supply Chain Planning

**Organization** Cummins Inc.

**Role Category** Hybrid

**Job Type** Exempt - Experienced

**ReqID** 2406869

**Relocation Package** Yes