Material Availability Analyst

Job highlights

• Supplier Management - MFG: Knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers of raw materials or product components
• Level Working Knowledge: Processes limited amounts of detailed information with good accuracy
• Level Extensive Experience: Evaluates issues and terminates supplier relationships as appropriate

Job Summary

Ensures availability of inventory for assigned products are satisfied within the allocated time frame.

What You Will Do

• Serving as focal point for suppliers, following up on requirements to minimize past due schedules.

• Expediting orders and provide promise dates for critical emergency orders.

• Reviewing and acting on schedule releases and follow up for on-time shipments.

• Working with global purchasing buyers and purchasing analyst on problem parts.

  What You Have

• Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.

• Level Working Knowledge: Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights.

• Level Working Knowledge: Utilizes specific approaches and tools for checking and cross-checking outputs.

• Level Working Knowledge: Processes limited amounts of detailed information with good accuracy.

• Level Working Knowledge: Learns from mistakes and applies lessons learned.

• Level Working Knowledge: Develops and uses checklists to ensure that information goes out error-free.

• Collaborating: Knowledge of collaborative techniques; ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.

• Level Working Knowledge: Demonstrates experience participating in productive collaborative processes.

• Under guidance, initiates collaborative meetings.

• Assists in communicating shared goals with diverse groups and parties.

• Helps promote collaboration across generations, functions, regions, and levels.

• Helps solve business problems and meet business goals through collaborative processes.

• Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

• Level Working Knowledge: Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.

• Level Working Knowledge: Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.

• Level Working Knowledge: Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.

• Level Working Knowledge: Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.

• Level Working Knowledge: Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

• Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP): Knowledge of the process, issues and considerations for systematically managing distribution of inventory for multiple plants or warehouses; ability to apply related knowledge and experience in real practice.

• Level Working Knowledge: Works with real-time inventory software, moving supplies to where needed, when needed.

• Level Working Knowledge: Interprets the impact of bottlenecks and delays on operating costs.

• Level Working Knowledge: Follows processes and applies technologies for items and inventory management.

• Level Working Knowledge: Assists in solving issues related to distribution to meet orders or inventory replenishment requirements.

• Level Working Knowledge: Works with basic distribution requirements planning (DRP) processes and operations.

• Logistics Management: Knowledge of logistics and management; ability to follow proper processes and run operations for effective and efficient movement of materials and finished products.

• Level Basic Understanding: Explains how improvements in logistics contribute to competitive advantage in the marketplace.

• Level Basic Understanding: Identifies issues and considerations for inbound and outbound logistics.

• Level Basic Understanding: Documents internal and external informative sources or proprietary materials about logistics management.

• Level Basic Understanding: Describes basic logistical processes and sub-processes.

• Manufacturing Application Systems: Knowledge of company and industry databases and applications used in a manufacturing environment; ability to operate, maintain and update these systems.

• Level Basic Understanding: Explains general flow of information throughout the manufacturing process and the supply chain.

• Level Basic Understanding: Identifies major types of applications and information systems used in manufacturing.

• Level Basic Understanding: Identifies core company, proprietary and public information sources.

• Level Basic Understanding: Describes the type of information maintained in manufacturing application systems and identifies its primary uses and users.

• Materials Handling and Management: Knowledge of material handling and management in plants; ability to perform, monitor and improve processes related to storage, transportation and handling of raw and hazardous materials.

• Level Basic Understanding: Identifies key issues involved with different types of manufacturing materials.

• Level Basic Understanding: Discusses considerations for physical management of major types of materials.

• Level Basic Understanding: Identifies types of materials used in manufacturing flagship products or components.

• Level Basic Understanding: Describes packaging regulations and locates those specific to the requirements of the situation.

• Supplier Management - MFG: Knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers of raw materials or product components; ability to apply related knowledge, experience and skills into real practice.

• Level Extensive Experience: Facilitates supplier partnering arrangements that share risk and reward.

• Level Extensive Experience: Monitors supplier performance; works to resolve discrepancies between performance and agreements.

• Level Extensive Experience: Develops quality standards and controls for suppliers.

• Level Extensive Experience: Builds and maintains partnerships with multiple and/or large suppliers.

• Level Extensive Experience: Evaluates issues and terminates supplier relationships as appropriate; works with legal departments.

• Level Extensive Experience: Ensures the fulfillment of report and record-keeping requirements.

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