Material Planning Analyst Jobs

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Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Material Planning Analyst

Griffin, GA

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Job Purpose

The Material Planning Analyst position collaborates with suppliers to ensure execution to planned orders and schedules and resolves issues with suppliers to ensure material availability for facility production. The incumbent works with the facility production schedulers and operations personnel to support facility production and point of use material availability. Ensures alignment of facility inventory accuracy and inventory systems planning parameters with the plan for every part to maintain planning integrity. The incumbent ensures the timely delivery of materials to the facility, collaborating with suppliers to coordinate deliveries, shipping schedules and work schedules to meet facility production plans. Using supplier collaboration technologies, collaborates with suppliers and operations to plan delivery of material for production.

Job Duties

• Serving as the purchasing representative when Buyer is not available.
• This position analyzes established parts schedules and production requirements, converting requirements into appropriate piece parts, requisitioning the materials, regulating inventory levels and issuing work orders.
• Assisting in decisions relative to supplier choice, quality and quantity performance and cost negotiations.
• Incumbent performs work to improve point of use material availability, applying root cause analysis and corrective actions. Provides Material Planning expertise to facility functions in support of improving demand variability, forecast credibility and usability for production planning.
• Assisting Buyer in purchasing duties as needed including rejections, quality requirements, cost improvements and quotation evaluation.
• Reviewing engineering change and release notices, working to establish best Just In Time delivery and economical lot sizes, contacting suppliers for information on hazardous materials and expediting material as necessary.
• Processing and negotiating resolutions to rejections, supplier debits and credits and investigating price discrepancies.
• Contributing to initiation and implementation of cost reduction projects to meet purchasing objectives.
• Assisting in request for quotations as required to establish best cost, quality, and delivery.
• Contacting supplier regarding release quantity, delivery date and method of shipment, etc.

Basic Qualifications

• Intermediate level of proficiency using SAP and Microsoft Office
• Associate degree and minimum of 3 years of experience within a logistics, purchasing, or supply chain related role

Top Candidates May Have

• APICS CPIM or CSPC National Certification is a plus
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to make decisions and work independently
• Excellent interpersonal, teamwork, organization, and communication skills
• Knowledge and/or experience in material control, purchasing, parts distribution, inventory control, manufacturing engineering, operations and transportation or logistics
• Intermediate level of proficiency reading blueprints
• Bachelor’s degree
• Ability to use and troubleshoot the MRP, Lognet, and MTS systems
• General knowledge of production scheduling and capacity management

Additional Information

• This position is located in Griffin, GA.
• Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
• Relocation is not available for this position.
• This position will close 7/2/23 at 11:59 PM.

Employee Benefit Details

• Our goal at Caterpillar is for you to have a rewarding career. Our teams are critical to the success of our customers who build a better world.
• Additional benefits include paid vacation days and paid holidays (prorated based upon hire date).
• Here you earn more than just a salary because we value your performance. We offer a total rewards package that provides benefits on day one (medical, dental, vision, RX, and 401K) along with the potential of an annual bonus.

Final Details

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