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Senior Raw Material Planner (Japan)
JPN - Tokyo
A Day in the Life:
As a Senior Raw Material Planner, you will drive the timely and effective planning of raw materials to directly support the company’s sales objectives. This role leverages planning and execution systems and advanced software tools to create purchase orders, maintain optimal inventory levels, track supply orders through fulfillment, and ensure supply plans are executed on time and in the required quantities.
The Impact You'll Make:
- Confirm accuracy of purchase orders entered into systems according to company purchasing policies and procedures. Confirm purchase orders with vendors including delivery date, quantity, unit of measure etc.
- Build good work relationship with suppliers and other cross functional team members. Track and expedite purchase orders by working with suppliers, carriers, etc.
- Maintain purchase orders within SAP to ensure the current details are shown and supports operational plans. Demand reviews with commercial teams, Supply Plan review with stakeholders, prior to submissions to SAP system.
- Ensure accurate planning parameters are reflected in SAP and regularly review to achieve optimum materials inventory holding within the network; Proactively identify slow moving and obsolete raw material risks, report and follow up by closely working with other functional teams.
- Regularly check for potential stock-outs due to purchasing delivery delay. Take immediate action to ensure material availability by expediting PO for earlier delivery when necessary. Analyze forecasts to determine proper inventory levels.
- Closely work with the product development teams to support new products implementation through the supply of new raw materials. Understand and manage risks to minimise impact on production schedule.
- Monitor and evaluate supplier performance around delivery performance and order fulfilment. Issue purchase forecasts to vendors and support Raw Material Supply Manager in holding formal supply reviews with main vendors.
- Coordinate raw material quality issues with all stakeholders to ensure appropriate corrective actions are initiated.
- Actively contribute to the development and support of material planning processes and benchmark against best practice and review ways to make continuous improvements
Who You Are:
- Prefer a Bachelor's Degree in the field of --Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Logistics or similar field of study.
- Additional Experience Desired: More than 7 years of experience in inventory management, planning or supply chain.
- Additional Experience Desired: More than 5 years of experience in demand forecasting and machine capacity.
- Computer Skills Desired: Advance user Microsoft Office.
- Preferred Certifications: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software Experience (SAP Preferred).
- Additional Knowledge or Skills to be Successful in this role: Fluent in English - Japanese preferred
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