Material Planning Analyst
Responsible for maintaining materials/purchasing data, coordinating contracts, and creating purchase orders. Tracks financial performance, manages inventory control, and supports supply chain operations. Requires a Bachelor's degree and preferably 1 year experience in electronics manufacturing.
Responsibilities
- Maintain materials and purchasing data, supply data, and information to production departments.
- Coordinate contracts and maintain Certificates of Conformance for suppliers.
- Create and maintain outsourced parts schedules.
- Assist in auditing data for accuracy and preparing summary reports, spreadsheets, graphics, and charts.
- Prepare recommendations to management based on research of data.
- Collect, compile, and present various types of data.
- Prepare summary reports, spreadsheets, and charts based on research of data from multiple sources, including customer bills of material, staff metrics, PPV metrics, and PPV form tracking.
- Create and maintain databases to support data collection.
- Audit data and resolve data integrity issues, including quotations.
- Proactively identify and escalate potential issues related to metrics.
- Suggest process and communication improvements relative to metric tracking activities.
- Track materials financial performance and initiate corrective actions when required.
- Perform daily review of RMA transactions.
- Create weekly purchase orders including all client parts.
- Handle receiving data entry for clients.
- Update content list and item master.
- Prepare DPT packing list for LCAD repairing.
- Serve as the interface for client material supply and bulk RMA service.
- Perform inventory control, supply chain management, material planning, and scheduling as needed.
- Develop commodity spend profiles, guide time profiling, inventory positioning, and site execution to price.
- Establish common pricing research tools.
- Provide detailed bill of materials research by site.
- Perform general reporting and activities for supplier score carding.
- Validate site pricing through implementation of a common cost review and pricing process.
- Assist in the supply chain transfer and risk management for NPI.
- Provide PPV targeting, tracking, and asset velocity.
- Design, manage, and control all data research tools.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 1 year of experience in materials or a related field (preferred).
- Background in electronics manufacturing (desired).