About this role
Overview
Position Summary:
Primary point person to interact with Sales on a daily basis. Responsible for monitoring end unit inventory at Regional Distribution Centers and making production schedule recommendations to keep end unit inventory at a healthy level by SKU. Support assembly capacity visualization during budget seasons.
Responsibilities
Job Responsibilities:
- Manage RDC replenishment system, monitoring daily in/out movements and projected end-unit inventory shortfalls.
- Report routinely on end unit inventory findings and share progress for keeping end units at a healthy, agreed-upon level.
- Hold routine meetings with management to propose changes to production based on inventory monitoring.
- Work with Production Planning, Long Lead Time Parts Planning and Domestic Parts Planning to make strategic changes to production sequence to improve RDC inventory availability.
- Establish and monitor common and unique strategic inventory level setting planning and maintenance supervision.
- Establish clear points of flexibility to change with cost association.
- Publish Key Performance Indicators month-end reports.
- Track individual model inventory compared to agreed-upon levels vs. Retail.
- Manage strategy inventory in PYMAC to provide model shift flexibility to sales.
- Work closely with Sales and Demand Chain teams and provide presentations as needed.
- Develop international part shortage reports
- Manage production plan requests by sales (Matome file generation)
- Communicate with sales on spec/model/color change availability during PSI negotiation process.
- BOM comparisons to understand differentiating parts for model shift offerings, as well as for model year change obsolete study.
- Available to Promise planning for availability by spec/color and set quantity to replenish.
- Place orders for strategy inventory to be routinely managed for each MRP.
- Delete and re-insert advanced orders for strategy inventory to routinely "push out" the need date for parts unused.
- Routinely check ECN for revisions of strategy inventory parts and make plans when revisions do occur.
- Calculate quantity and cost of strategy inventory at risk of obsolescence for new model year and share with management team.
- Make plan and communicate with manufacturing and sales management for what strategy inventory to hold or reduce for new model year start.
- Manage worksheets that include: quantitative forecasting, strategy inventory settings, end unit inventory planning and other reports.
- Work closely with Demand Chain Planner on inventory setting and support for ongoing improvement projects.
- Communicate routinely with Production Planning team on parts availability of model shifts communicated through Matome process.
Qualifications
Education / Experience:
- 2-3 years manufacturing or supply chain experience.
- High school or GED required, Bachelor's Degree preferred.
Other Required Skills:
- Excellent personal computer skills and knowledge of mainframe MRP/CRP computer systems.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel.
- Knowledge of PYMAC and SAP.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills within a team-based environment.
- Working knowledge of and experience in general plant operations.