Material Planner

Job description / Role

The specific duties to carry out will support your main duty of keeping production flowing smoothly with the needed materials. This ensures a steady supply of products to customers.

Job Purpose: To prepare detailed supply requirements plans with schedules of deliveries for a broad range of globally sourced commodities & raw materials. Ensure timely & adequate supply of materials to manufacturing sites of the company.

The Material Planner will:
- Manage/maintain stock policies and (raw) material inventory to ensure timely materials availability to the manufacturing site whilst maintaining keep inventory levels at minimum levels.
- Prepare complex materials analysis, including; integrating supply/demand views, customer forecasts, inventory positions, rates of new product launches, end of components life cycle & changes in supplier capabilities.
- Document key material planning processes, recommend improvements & implement those enhancements.
- Partner with purchasing for a lean, effective & compliant process for planning & purchasing of company’s raw material & component needs.

Primary Duties Responsibilities:
- Work closely with Production Control, Manufacturing, Quality, (R&D) & Sales (Demand Planner) to plan the quantity of materials/components to meet both service delivery (KPI Delivery Performance) & inventory targets (KPI Inventory).
- Implement & improve planning processes like pull replenishment, supplier controlled inventories.
- Analyze Bill of Materials (BOM’s) to ensure material availability on design changes & manage phase in/out of materials to minimize risk of obsolete stock.
- Recommend changes to key material planning parameters like safety stock and replenishment frequencies. Control data maintenance and updates to the ERP system with Data Controller.
- Develop a materials/components demand supply plan including: supply-demand balancing, supply availability, allocations, delivery performance, flexibility requirements.
- Assess supplier capacity loads, bottlenecks, and material availability, to advise management of supply chain constraints.
- Perform statistical data analyses to establish optimized future long term demands and establish delivery service level requirements / safety stocks.
- Process purchase requests for materials/components from approved suppliers / consolidate system proposed orders. Communicate materials/components delivery schedules & expedite required materials.
- Generate consumption vs. planned/ordered reports, inventory balances, targets & measures for management review.
- Follow up on outstanding open orders not meeting targeted materials/components supply plans.
- Determine root causes for part shortages & implement permanent corrective action, including assessments towards suppliers proposed improvements activities.
- Optimize global component inventory across (multiple) locations.
- Manage and mitigate excess & obsolete inventory through re-balancing of supplies.

Requirements

- Bachelor’s Degree preferably in Engineering (Mechanical) or else a degree is desired in Business, Supply Chain, Logistics,.
- Certified in Production Inventory Management (CPIM) designation preferred.
- Excellent math skills.
- Minimum 2 years’ material planning experience in a global supply chain company, preferably in high complex manufacturing industries.(Ceramic industry strongly preferred)
- 3 - 5 years experience/ previous material planning/supply chain Environment experience preferred.(Ceramic industry strongly preferred)
- Ability to analyze product bills of material to understand key requirements.
- Experience with planning or purchasing of Chemicals and raw materials from multiple resources.
- Understanding of manufacturing processes of ceramic tiles industry.
- Proficient knowledge of MS Office with advanced skills in MS Excel for analysis, planning & reporting.
- Knowledge of ERP/MRP systems, preferably with proficient knowledge of Databases and Structured Query Language.
- Excellent verbal & written communication, negotiation skills
- Strong organizational skills & attention to detail.
- Ability to work with cross functional teams in a lead role on material planning issues.
- High customer service skills & able to solve problems of diverse scope.
- Ability to manage multiple projects & support to various departments with different requirements.
- Must be highly flexible & adjust readily to new situations.
- Ability to work under pressure and stress resistant.

Competencies:
- Excellent analytical and quantitative skills.
- Demonstrated ability to balance multiple priorities.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Strong customer service and communication skills (written and verbal).
- Proficiency in MS Excel and Access.

About the Company

Porcellan Co. LLC is a United Arab Emirates based company, spread over an area of 765,000 square meters in Abu Dhabi area. Founded in 2006, it plays a key role within the strong local and regional presence of Jamal Al-Ghurair Group (JAG) by decisively re-defining the concept of porcelain tiles.

Its effective sales network reaches key distributors in over 25 countries in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe. Porcellan serves large-scale distribution channels, specialized dealers, retailers and end-users. The integrated efforts of its workforce along with the latest technologies utilized provided the company with the capability to produce more than 50,000 square meters of tiles per day.

All the products manufactured by Porcellan match the quality and aesthetic criteria of architects, interior designers and homeowners. There is no doubt that the company will set a new benchmark for porcelain in the United Arab Emirates and worldwide.