Material Planner

 Material Planner

Purpose of the job:

• Manage his Supplier's portfolio (Internal and/or External suppliers) for ensuring goods delivery at right time, quantity and place based on Alstom needs.
• Express delivery needs to suppliers and contribute to governance of the Supplier's delivery performances. 
• Drive action plan for performance improvement & contribute to risk management.
• Collaborate with the Procurement team to ensure the contractual agreements are reflected in the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system.
• Main responsabilities:

Missions

• Express delivery needs to Suppliers using the dedicated tools
• Follow up deliveries and ensure the availability of goods for Alstom projects
• Monitor Supplier's performances KPI's
• Participate/lead Supplier's performances improvement
• Contribute with SC inputs for supplier selection
• Contribute to the project SC objectives and targets by ensuring material planning and ERP settings are in line with these objectives.

Tasks

• Internal suppliers: Manage Purchase Requisition until Material Planning documents creation*
• External suppliers: Follow up with Procurement the Purchase Requisition level maturity for launching Material Planning documents *
• Ensure and update the accuracy of material planning master data (in compliance with stock and logistic constraints) *
• Create the Material Planning documents (Call-off, Schedule Agreement) & respective Source List and Quota Management *
• Communicate the Material Planning documents to Suppliers and follow Suppliers confirmation
• Analyze Suppliers confirmations vs. Alstom needs and evaluate the risk/impact anticipation on production/projects
• Identify priorities associated with risk/impact anticipation and set up recovery actions
• Organize and maintain regular reviews with Suppliers in order to check the status of deliveries and their delivery performances
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• Analyze and manage MRP exception messages and anticipate supply problems (backlogs, shortages, no demand…).
• Maintain delivery dates in ERP
• Track missing parts until stock availability
• Ensure non-conformities replacement through NCR process
• Resolve Goods Receipts issues with the applied means of communication (overstock, shortage, damage, documentation, quantity mismatch, Invoices, etc.)
• Analyze and share deliveries performances KPI's with different stakeholders (Internal & External)
• Collaborate with Material Planning Management/SDPM to validate worst Suppliers and define appropriate action plan
• Contribute (when involved) to Supplier Capacity Assessment
• Contribute (when involved) to Supplier's Light Capability Assessment (LSCA)
• Contribute to new business risk assessments and mitigation action plan

• *Applicable in line with GSI deployment roadmap

   

  General scope

• Apply APSYS (Alstom Production System) roadmap and Golden Rules
• Respect Alstom EHS policy
• Participate to EHS improvement and targets achievement
• Respect Alstom Ethics & Compliance codes
• Educational Requirements:

• Mandatory:

  Graduated at least from Higher Education in Business Administration or Engineering or Supply Chain.

• Desirable:

• Supply Chain certification.
• Local language
• Experience :

• Mandatory:

  Experience with ERPs, Supply Chain concepts, processes continuous improvement, English.

• Desirable:

  SAP experience.

• Competencies & Skills Describe the needed skills (technical & behavioral)

• Materials requirements planning
• Supplier Delivery Performance Management
• Inventory management & Material Planning techniques
• Industrial scheduling
• Transport & Distribution
• Supply Chain information systems
• Data analytics
• Procurement
• Project Management Basics
• Entrepreneurship
• Agility
• Collaboration

The future of transportation is already here. 
Alstom, with recorded sales of 7.3 billion in the 2016/17 fiscal year, is the world leader in integrated transport systems and continues to push the boundaries of innovation & digital solutions for transportation systems and e-mobility.  We are today at the forefront of providing sustainable modes of transport, with the largest range of rail solutions in the market.  Headquartered in France and present in over 60 countries,  we employ 32,800 people worldwide. 
For more information, please visit: http://www.alstom.com