What are the responsibilities and job description for the Material Planner position at Dana Incorporated?
Dana is a global leader in the supply of highly engineered driveline, sealing, and thermal-management technologies that improve the efficiency and performance of vehicles with both conventional and alternative-energy powertrains. Serving three primary markets – passenger vehicle, commercial truck, and off-highway equipment – Dana provides the world's original-equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket with local product and service support through a network of nearly 100 engineering, manufacturing, and distribution facilities.
Job Purpose
This role is responsible for maintaining inventory levels to ensure an uninterrupted supply of material to support production in the facility.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Analyze material requirements and initiate appropriate vendor material release schedules
- Responsible for maintaining inventory levels to ensure an uninterrupted supply of material while at the same time, operating within established ordering rule constraints
- Maintain inventory to hit established inventory targets, and fill rates.
- Monitor Customer past dues to ensure the best Customer Service.
- Analyze and report significant vendor delivery problems to department manager and DGP.
- Establish and maintain a professional working relationship with supplier contacts through frequent phone contact and plant visitations
- Continuously monitor ongoing material requirements versus availability, supplier delivery to schedule, net changes and material rejection or loss
- Coordinate shipments from suppliers to minimize freight cost.
- Communicate material availability information as required to master Customer Service, sales and plant production
- Identify unresolved problems and communicate to Dana Global Purchasing.
- Maintain records of material at outside subcontractors or obligation material at vendors
- Develop, review, and update inventory standards, ordering rules, vendor information and lead times to most efficiently order and manage inventory and measure supplier performance
- Review excess and obsolete inventories and provide to management recommendations for disposition
- Participate in implementation of engineering changes and new model introductions. Monitor the status of new part PPAP
- Coordinate the phase in of new suppliers or re-sourcing programs
- Identify quantity and plan any special banks for vendor protection, new model phase-in, special safety stocks, etc.
- Train and serve as back up for shop floor scheduler when needed.
- Train and serve as back up for shipping supervisors when needed.
- Initiate purchase order requests
- Provide information to Accounts Payable as needed
- Communicate material shortages and requirements to internal Dana customers and suppliers as required.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.
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