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Material Planner

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This job is for a Material Planner who manages inventories, coordinates with vendors, and ensures timely material delivery for production. You might like this job because it involves maintaining cost-efficient and high-quality materials to support steady production.

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Location : Subang, Selangor, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

Job Description

Job Description Summary

We are looking for a Material Planner to placing orders with vendors and manage inventories to ensure that materials are delivered in the specified amount of time to maintain lean inventories to meet the production schedules need. The responsibilities include determining material specifications to meet quality requirement, creating and maintaining inventory schedules, coordinating with internal departments, and managing external stakeholder relations.
A successful Material Planner should be able to ensure the appropriate supply of cost-efficient and high-quality materials required to maintain steady production.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Plan, develop, implement, and evaluate processes for material delivery to point of fit to ensure continuous supply to production.
  • Tracking production volume and monitoring customer demand patterns and purchasing trends.
  • Liaise with vendors and OEMs to follow up on delivery status of spares purchases and to expedite deliveries via phone calls outside working hours, where necessary.
  • Utilize Material Requirements Planning system (MRP) in SAP.
  • Monitor materials flow to identify bottlenecks and forecast problems.
  • Ensuring materials meet specifications, quality standards, and are cost-efficient by vendor selection.
  • Understand and manage risks to minimize impact on production schedule. Take follow up actions in relation to material shortages that affect production.
  • Oversee the effective delivery of end-to-end service globally ensuring the proper execution of the P2P process: from requisition handling to PO placement and tracking, to PO changes, to PO close.
  • Preparing and generating weekly report of inventory status, stock requisition analysis, and forecasting.
  • Liaise with customer representative team for part fulfilment approvals.

Qualifications / Requirements:

  • Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Finance, Mathematic, Statistics, Engineering or closely related field required.
  • Minimum 3 years working experience in material planning, purchasing or relevant supply chain preferably in aviation/manufacturing.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Excel and SAP. VBA and programming skill is an advantage.
  • Strong analytical concept.

Desired Characteristics:

  • Humble: respectful, receptive, agile, eager to learn.
  • Transparent: shares critical information, speaks with candor, contributes constructively.
  • Focused: quick learner, strategically prioritizes work, committed.  
  • Leadership ability: strong communicator, decision-maker, collaborative
  • Problem solver: analytical-minded, challenges existing processes, critical thinker.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No


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