Operational Buyer Planner

Job Title

Job Description

Job Location - Chakan

The Material Planner and Buyer is responsible for assisting in conducting basic inventory analysis, aiding in ordering materials, resolving basic availability issues, helping in compiling stock levels, tracking supplier/item profiles, and recording consignment stock to ensure efficient supply chain operations and effective decision-making. The role's monitoring of MRP tools is crucial for optimizing stock levels and managing master data settings during production ramp-up. The role tracks material characteristics and trends, rectifies seasonal patterns, and communicates forecasts promptly to suppliers for efficient inventory management. The role entails ordering materials, monitoring deliveries, and updating ERP software.

Your role:

• Works on basic material shortage risks, follows action to mitigate disruptions, performs return orders to suppliers, ensures smooth supply chain operations and maintains strong supplier relationships.
• Assists in addressing and resolving the fundamental reasons behind routine availability issues, ensuring smooth and continuous supply chain operations by identifying and eliminating root causes efficiently.
• Assists in calculating and planning basic technical aspects of purchasing goods, understanding their requirements, managing inventory including safety stock, and efficiently expediting and mitigating shortages with suppliers to uphold service levels.
• Supports in monitoring material resource planning tools to track material characteristics and trends, aiming to optimize stock levels, manages master data settings and stock levels during the Industrialization phase to ensure availability of correct materials for production ramp-up.
• Checks routine materials and exceptions, including new materials, those with or without negative consumption, materials flagged for deletion, and end-of-life materials, and tracks coefficients to identify and rectify seasonal or trend patterns.
• Participates in communicating forecasts to suppliers promptly and records them accurately to maintain efficient inventory management and smooth supply chain operations.
• Aids in ordering materials from suppliers, records the outstanding order package for delivery time, quality, and price, tracks order confirmation, monitors open order positions, expedites if necessary, and keeps enterprise resource planning software updated.
Compiles data on supplier/item profiles to help establish efficient replenishment processes, records optimal data depth for informed decisions, and maintains high quality standards and effective supply chain planning operations. Supports monitoring consignment stock at suppliers, conducting regular stock takes, and managing materials provided to vendors, such as those for repair or rework purchase orders, and regular stock takes.

You're the right fit if:

2-5 years of experience in Material Planning, Supply Chain Management, Data Analysis or equivalent.
Bachelor's Degree in Business Economics, Supply Chain Management, Operations Research, Data Analysis and Statistics, Business Analytics or equivalent.

Technical / Functional Skills:

Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Data Analysis & Interpretation

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems

Inventory Management System

Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

Business Acumen

Master Data Management (MDM)

Purchase Order Management

Vendor Management

Materials Management