Specialist - Planning

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Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Specialist – Planning in Chennai, India.

An professional who can quickly and accurately process planning orders in a fast paced environment. Has excellent stake holders service skills and works well in a team to consistently meet challenging performance targets.

What a typical day looks like:

• Responsible for providing expertise and support to the Customer Focus Team (CFT), ensuring the ability of the materials planning for a specific project or projects as required providing materials support to the weekly production planned orders and enables to achieve Kit on time drop to meet Customer Schedule.

• Key assignments include providing timely Materials status through use of available Shortage reports, Submission of Excess and Obsolete Inventory to the Customer, Work Order Management, inventory management, MRB and DR Management to achieve the operating goals.

• Senior Materials Planners for New Emerging NPI Accounts to provide faster service to the NPI Customer to effectively communicate with the customer protecting business interest of Flex.

• Working on customer forecast & shipment using waterfall method.

• Responsible for analyzing availability of materials & capacity based on customer demand & coming up with aggressive but achievable loading schedule.

• Responsible for running weekly system reports to determine material shortages & work on their closure with buying team.

• Responsible for handling work order management based on build plan. Responsible for identifying & taking various inventory management measures.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree • 4+ yrs. Experience in Planning/ Supply Chain Purchasing, Planning and Supply Chain knowledge/experience (Not Mandatory). • Mandatory Knowledge of computer software applications, MS Excel, Word & PowerPoint (PF) Knowledge of planning tool like Kinaxis will be an added advantage.

• Proficiency: ERP/P2P systems, BAAN / SAP/ Oracle,

• Kinaxis knowledge will be added advantage.

• Knowledge of Engineering BOMs, product structure, EOL, ECO Management

• Process Knowledge: complete planning cycle including MPS, MRP, Demand Planning, Materials planning, Production planning.

• Communication: Communication, both verbal and written, is an important part of this role.

What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:

• Health Insurance

• PTO

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Job Category

Global Procurement & Supply Chain

Required Skills:

Optional Skills:

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