Materials Planner

1 week ago

Ottawa, Canada Sanmina Corporation Full time

**Specific Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Responsible for developing and managing demand intake for product and contributing to the creation of the END item supply plan in the MRP.
- Works on issues of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
- Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
- Normally receives little instruction on day-to-day work, and general instructions on new assignments.
- Has the authority to make responsible decisions comparable to scope of position.
- Analyzes the demand requirements vs. the supply commitments and possibilities.
- Performs due diligence by conducting what-if analyses for all demand changes, prior to agreements being made with customers.
- Executes MRP run for changed demand and end item supply requirements.
- Works with Master Production Scheduling to ensure closed loop feedback process is in place for all potential risks to meeting supply.
- Works with Purchasing to confirm materials availability for all demand requests that require orders to be expedited or placed within lead-time.
- Works with Account Management and Supply Chain Management for agreement of order quantities and rules, buffer inventories, etc.
- Reviews the plan with Master Production Scheduling weekly to understand changes, review capacity loads, and materials plans/risks.

**Knowledge and Skills**

College diploma in Business Administration or related fields is an asset. Typically requires a minimum of 5 years’ related experience.

**Communication**
- Communicates with internal teams and external customers to ensure effective execution of planning schedule and commits.
- Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise.

**Customer Focus**
- Works directly with Program Managers to ensure ordering rules reflect the desired operation of the business and customer requirements that may be in conflict can be managed.
- Participates in early discovery sessions to ensure customer requirements are understood and planning, build, and supply chain design, methods and processes are developed.

**Problem Solving**
- Focuses on meeting mid
- and long-term customer demand (orders or forecasts), assessing materials and capacity requirements in a proactive manner and works with Account Management and Supply Chain Management to mitigate risks. The goal is to improve customer responsiveness, flexibility, internal scheduling, and reduce execution costs.

**Job specific skills**
- Advanced skills in Excel and Oracle are required.

**Leadership**
- Participates in cross-functional teams including Buyers, Test, Manufacturing and Quality Engineers, and Program Managers.
- May lead weekly and monthly supply/demand reviews.
- Provides support and guidance to less experienced members of the team.

**Innovation**
- Identifies, recommends and builds opportunities for improvements to planning process.

**Organization/Project Management**
- Sets overall product lead-times. Analyzes constraints that allow customer lead-times to be met and ensures reduction initiatives are undertaken.

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