Job Description

Job Summary:Responsible for ensuring material availability to support production execution and customer delivery commitments.Ensures material availability aligns with production plans while managing supply risks, inventory levels, and supply commitments. Job Description:1. Material Planning & Forecasting- Analyze Available-to-Promise (ATP) to determine material availability and validate feasible prior to confirming customer demand requirement/forecast.- Execute daily MRP exception messages, shortage reports, and demand changes to ensure timely material availability.- Evaluate demand–supply alignment on a periodic basis and update the material requirements plan to reflect current priorities and constraints.2. Inventory Management- Manage inventory positions including allocation and ATP balance on a daily basis with focus on critical and constrained materials.- Drive periodic review of inventory policies, including safety stock, buffer strategies, and planning parameters in alignment with demand volatility.- Enforce inventory repositioning actions driven by forecast changes, engineering change (ECN), and product lifecycle transitions, to ensure supply continuity while preventing excess and obsolete inventory risk.3. Supply, Risk & Contingency Management- Track and manage supplier delivery commitments on a daily basis, ensuring strict alignment with material requirement plan.- Drive timely resolution of material shortages, ensuring recovery plans are clearly defined, executed and tracked to closure.- Execute supply mitigation and risk containment actions including expediting, de-expediting, alternative sourcing, and part substitution to minimize production execution and customer delivery.- Secure supply for long lead-time items (LLI) and constrained components on an as-required basis, based on demand signals, MRP exceptions, and supply risk indicators.4. Production Support- Manage and sustain Clear-to-Build (CTB) status as a mandatory prerequisite prior to production execution, ensuring no material-related disruption to Manufacturing Order (MO) release and build activities.- Coordinate material constraints, CTB gaps, and recovery actions to Production Planning on a daily execution basis to ensure proactive production planning adjustments.- Drive production prioritization decisions based on material readiness status, ensuring constrained materials are allocated in alignment with business priorities and customer commitments.- Drive regular execution alignment discussions, providing visibility on material readiness risks impacting production output and delivery performance.5. Cross-Functional Coordination- Coordinate with procurement/sourcing/internal supply team on an ongoing basis for supply management, recovery actions, and escalation handling.- Drive coordination with engineering to ensure timely material substitution and effective control of ECN impacts on supply and production execution.- Collaborate with production on a daily basis to ensure material readiness supports execution plans.- Communicate delivery commitments, supply risks, and mitigation actions on a regular basis to Project, Sales and Account Management teams.6. System & Data Accuracy- Maintain accurate and up-to-date SAP system data on a daily basis, including supply commitment status and material availability.- Drive timely system updates for all changes in demand, supply, and engineering changes.