What are the responsibilities and job description for the Supply Chain Scheduler position at Valeo?
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Your Challenges......
Mission:
- Ensure inventory levels of Raw materials and components' families.
- Ensure that the materials and components are available to met the complete customer demand.
- Identify blocking points and plan appropriate quick actions to solve them.
- When predicting suppliers not delivering on-time, systematically collect reliable information and communicate it to his /her internal customers and all relevant departments in the plant.
Responsibilities:
- Is in charge of the inventory level of his raw materials and components' families:
- Follow up the MPS achievement and propose preventives actions regarding material availability to ensure MPS realization.
- Is responsible for setting up a proper raw materials and components inventory levels.
- Define and lead actions connected with inventory reductions with his components families.
- Measure the DPM for each supplier. Propose action plans to improve the service level.
- Follow up and report daily the inventory level of his raw material and components' families.
- Make sure that the materials and components are available to meet the complete customer demand:
- Plan the raw materials and components requirement based upon Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning and Master Production Schedule and anticipate potential impacts with suppliers and with production.
- Validate and send on a weekly basis forecasts to the suppliers.
- Make sure that raw materials and components are available to met customer demand.
- Follow up daily the material arrivals according to firm orders and make sure suppliers ship parts on time according to firm orders.
- On a regular basis, communicate complete, precise & reliable information to the Supplier contacts. Adapt the chosen method of communication to the level of the Supplier contact. Adapt the frequency to the situation (preventative, curative, crisis).
- Identify blocking points and plan appropriate quick actions to solve them:
- Attend Logistics/Purchasing meetings and follow up related action plans.
- Support the implementation with the appropriate departments (APU, Logistics, Purchasing, VPS) tools and methods in order to improve the supply chain organization like Pull flow, Kanban, EDI, Milk run.
- Define with the External flow analyst the inbound transportation plans.
- Support actively the inventory counting and propose actions to maintain accuracy of inventory in cooperation with the ERP and inventory control analyst.
- Alert sales in the event of a crisis (Customer or internal), to define priorities with the Customer & internally (management, VS for the aftermarket), follow the evolution of any associated action plans. If necessary, escalate.
- Meet the Suppliers contacts on a regular basis (once a year for major Suppliers).
- Propose logistics protocol with suppliers in co-operation with External flow analyst and Purchasing.
- Make sure that there is a backup for each Suppliers & train the backup on the way to manage the Suppliers’ account; ensure that during holidays the position is covered & that both suppliers and internal customers are notified in advance of the absence and informed of the person that will be temporarily managing the Suppliers’ account.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business, Finance, Engineering or equivalent and / or equivalent experience .
- Minimum 3 years' experience in Supply Chain/Logistics operational and project management in a manufacturing environment, and preferably in the automotive manufacturing industry.
- Experience using SAP is strongly preferred.
- Strong analytical skills..
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Job Type: Full-time
Education:
- Bachelor's (Preferred)
Experience:
- Automotive: 1 year (Required)
- SAP Supply Chain Management: 3 years (Required)
Salary : $62,700 - $79,400