Specialist - Planning

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To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our

growth, we're looking to add a Specialist – GBS Planning in Chennai, India.

An experience purchasing professional who can quickly and accurately process

purchase orders in a fast-paced environment. Has excellent stake holders service skills

and works well in a team to consistently meet challenging performance targets.

What a typical day looks like:

• Responsible for providing expertise and support to the Customer Focus Team (CFT),

ensuring the ability of the materials planning for a specific project or projects as

required providing materials support to the weekly production planned orders and

enables to achieve Kit on time drop to meet Customer Schedule.

• Key assignments include providing timely Materials status through use of available

Shortage reports, Submission of Excess and Obsolete Inventory to the Customer, Work

Order Management, inventory management, MRB and DR Management to achieve

the operating goals.

• Senior Materials Planners for New Emerging NPI Accounts to provide faster service to

the NPI Customer to effectively communicate with the customer protecting business

interest of Flex.

• Working on customer forecast & shipment using waterfall method.

• Responsible for analyzing availability of materials & capacity based on customer

demand & coming up with aggressive but achievable loading schedule.

• Responsible for running weekly system reports to determine material shortages & work

on their closure with buying team.

• Responsible for handling work order management based on build plan. Responsible for

identifying & taking various inventory management measures.

The experience we're looking to add to our team:

• Education: Bachelor's Degree or Engineering Graduates

• Experience: 4- 6yrs. Planning/ Supply Chain Purchasing, Planning and Supply Chain

knowledge/experience.

• Mandatory Knowledge of computer software applications, MS Excel, Word &

PowerPoint (PF) Knowledge of planning tool like Kinaxis will be an added advantage.

• Proficiency: ERP/P2P systems, BAAN / SAP/ Oracle,

• Kinaxis knowledge will be added advantage. Knowledge of Engineering BOMs, product

structure, EOL, ECO Management

• Process Knowledge: complete planning cycle including MPS, MRP, Demand Planning,

Materials planning, Production planning.

• Communication: Communication, both verbal and written, is an important part of this

role.

What you'll receive for the great work you provide:

• Heath Insurance
• PTO

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