Associate - Supply Chain Planning

**Associate - Supply Chain Planning**:
GEA is one of the largest suppliers for the food and beverage processing industry and a wide range of other process industries. Approximately 18,000 employees in more than 60 countries contribute significantly to GEA’s success - come and join them We offer interesting and challenging tasks, a positive working environment in international teams and opportunities for personal development and growth in a global company.

Why join GEA

**Job information**

**Reference Number**

JR-0034408

**Job function**

Supply Chain

**Position type**

Full time

**Site**

Block No. 8 Phase B, Savli Road, Dumad Village, Vadodara
- 391740 Gujarat
- Vadodara MPS is manufacturing FHT and LPT equipment with capacity of ~300 k production hours SC Planning team is supporting production by providing monthly plan and milestone schedule. This scheduling is not sufficient, and we are not able to track the complete production process. Production team need support for activity level scheduling for equipment manufacturing. This will help them to measure real time progress and identify process bottlenecks. This job will be done by Production Schedulers - one for FHT business and one for LPT business.
- Your responsibilities and tasks:

- Responsible for production planning and materials management with an aim to meet customer delivery schedule with optimum lead-time, inventory and utilization of workshop capacity.
- Release milestone schedule for key equipment fabrication according to manufacturing sequence and lead time.
- Advance planning of long lead items (Raw Materials/Plates, FIM/Essential Parts, Bought-outs etc.) according to customer delivery schedule.
- Study build package/drawing set and define procurement strategy for all materials and accordingly define the material master in SAP.
- Study build package/drawing set and create multi-level manufacturing bill of material (BOM) in SAP according to procurement strategy and manufacturing sequence.
- Create Project, WBS structure and generate demands in SAP. Do material requirement planning (MRP) and generate purchase requisitions and planned orders. Release production orders for in-house manufacturing items.
- Allocation of materials from free stock to WBS as per project demands.
- Plate cutting parts entry and allocation of material into respective production orders as per nesting layouts.
- Create MOQ items additional purchase requisitions as per procurement request.
- Sub-contracting planning and procurement as per delivery schedule.
- Monitor and align availability of inputs (drawing & materials) as per workshop loading plan.
- Provide material requirements dates & project shortage list to procurement.
- Regular review of projects as per plan, monitoring the progress, and define proactive actions for deviations wherever required.
- Participate into workshop daily GEMBA meetings to discuss the progress and issues arising during execution.
- Organize and manage review meetings with internal stakeholders, group customers and manage correspondence.
- Manage revision of build package and accordingly update the schedule, BOM, production orders and timely communicate to all stakeholders.
- Packing and dispatch planning and preparation of related documents.
- Contribute to various organization initiatives related to Lean, SOC, ISO, Sustainability, Global SAP, New Product Development, Lead Time Reduction etc.
- Co-ordination with cross functions for smooth execution of assigned projects.

Your profile and qualifications:

- Degree or Diploma in Mechanical/Fabrication/Production Engineering with 5 to 10 years of experience preferably in production planning & scheduling in fabrication industries.
- Broad knowledge and understanding of production planning and materials management in project driven make to order manufacturing environment.
- Working knowledge of project planning software MS Project and SAP PP, PS & MM Modules.
- Should be familiar with operational excellence tools like Lean, 5S, Gemba, Kaizen and ISO 9001, 14001 & 45001.
- Should have ability to manage assigned projects / tasks independently.
- Positive mindset, quick learner, team player and customer centric approach.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication skills in English.