Demand Planner

Job Summary:

• Take care of customers assigned on order planning fulfillment.
• Work with internal team for material expediting to maximize revenue output, commit delivery to Customer and on time shipment arrangement to Customer
• Manage cancellation and changes, including Engineering Change Order (ECO) to get timely disposition on potential excess and obsolete
• A part of Customer Focus Team member to highlight any related materials / delivery issues

Key Duties:

• Key contact person to the customers in areas related to Demand /  Forecasting/Order Management/Material Management
• Communicating with Production Control & Production for the output plan in order to meet Customer demand order requirement
• Coordinate periodic reports with team members on demand management
• Manage inventory and facilitate initiatives to improve on finished goods inventory (example clearance of slow-moving stocks)
• Upon receipt of each customer demand, the Demand Planner shall analyze the availability of materials and capacity to develop achievable schedule.
• Liaise with customer on delivery commit and schedules
• The demand planner will load the customer demand into system
• Assess production schedules optimize run quantities, and minimize changeovers to achieve 100% on-time delivery
• Run system reports to determine material shortages that need to be expedited
• Follow-up with Buyers to ensure materials are available to support production as per plan.
• Ensure all customers’ Engineering Change Notification (ECN) are implemented in a timely manner
• Effectively manage based on build readiness procedures on new product transfer, and End of Life (EOL) activity

Education:

• Preferred Degree with min 5 years of experience

Key Skills:

• Negotiation
• Technical proficiency
• Inventory Management & Optimization
• Project management
• Business Relationship
• Manufacturing Resource Planning ( MRP )