- Manage the upstream supply chain to ensure both optimal customer service levels and optimal inventory performance.
- Work with suppliers to improve the flexibility and the responsiveness of the upstream supply chain.
- Ensure the optimal flow of material in the manufacturing plant including reception, storage, and replenishment.
- Manage the Master Production Schedule (MPS) to ensure the fulfilment of customer orders in accordance with the Commercial Logistics Offer.
- Create workforce plan and manage related resources to improve production performance including collaboration with other departments.
- Oversee the implementation of manufacturing schedules, personnel requirements, quality control, production standards and safety programs.
- Coordinate production to guarantee production quality, timing, customer focus, and optimal efficiency to reach plant and cluster goals.
- Potential for additional exposure to Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP) processes and reporting, including digitization of these reports.
- Coordinate the activities of different teams to get products to customers on time, considering factors such as transportation time, engineering changes, production and machine down time, product returns and other delays.
- Ensure hosting of meetings, give presentations on logistics efficiency, and consult on the strategy for launching new product.
- Balance safety, cost management and business growth then prepare and present reports to directors and top executives.
- Develop team members' competency through training, coaching, and communication and performance management.
- Train, lead, and mentor a team of employees that includes reinforcement of safety guidelines.
- Work with manufacturing to ensure there are sufficient resources to fulfil customer demand.
- Design and implement the upstream and downstream flows during the new product introduction process.
- Manage downstream flows for: customer satisfaction, inventory efficiency, transportation cost and adherence to the Customer Logistics Offer.
- Administrate and support production team and facilitate skill development.
- Execute overall inventory levels in compliance with space availability, production output, order requirements, and business plans.
- Work directly with the suppliers, purchasing and production to make sure material lot sizes, lead times, and packaging fits into the plant material providing as well as handling plan.
- Implement improvement projects in the areas of inventory control, cycle count procedures and Kanban.
- Maintain plant healthy inventory to drive lead times down and increase cash flow.
- Support supply chain management planning with reporting current and hypothetical inventory levels.
- Strategize to dispose unhealthy inventory in a timely manner.
- Support the supply chain management planning with objectives and implemented improvement projects in the areas of warehouse management, material flow, inventory, and manufacturing systems to effectively manage as well as control inventory levels.
- Bachelor's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Supply Chain, Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years of working experience in the manufacturing plant industry as supply chain manager.
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