Senior Engineer / Assistant Manager - Material Planner in JaP/MFV

Material Requirement Planning

Consolidate product demands from internal stakeholders, plan and release component schedules to define component requirements from sub-value streams as well as material from external vendors or workbenches to ensure optimum performance of the production system and ensure customer delivery fulfilment.

Production Co-Ordination

Track and report production performance on shift-basis, proactively identify challenges or bottlenecks, promptly recognise delays, coordinate with production team to adapt schedule & resources, define a recovery plan or escalate issues for required intervention to ensure rhythmic production.

Customer Escalation Management

Receive and assess customer escalations, review & decide options to prioritise, adapt and expedite fulfilment of customer needs. Organise receiving and processing of customer returns products to requalify or restore product functionality and redispatch to customer.

Inventory Management

Track, manage, reconcile and control inventory levels throughout the production area to avoid shortages, non-moving or scrapping of parts. Ensure physical volume of material in the shop floor is reflected in SAP to avoid inventorying discrepancy.

Stocktaking

Liase with the controlling & manufacturing team, organise, conduct and supervise the statutory stocktaking process in the value stream to physically confirm the inventories represented in business accounting. Conduct reconciliation of discrepancies, plan measures to eliminate root causes for discrepancies.

Management Reporting

Compile, consolidate and report shopfloor deliverables e.g. production OCM qty, levelling, WIP etc, to enable management to visualise actual performance e.g. cost review, inventory, order tracking, etc. and to accordingly steer business performance.

Product Data Management

Review and administer MRP related data in SAP to ensure operational and cost management.

Lean Management

Monitor change in customer demands and adapt lean management principles e.g., supermarket calculation & kanban cards, VSP kaizen identification, etc, to enable productivity and efficiency improvement.