Material Planner
X 7 Month Contract
8.00am - 4.00pm Monday - Friday
37.5 hours
Primary Function:
To plan, release, schedule, expedite and monitor materials required for production; manage daily inventory and supplier schedules; analyse, coordinate and communicate detailed production planning material requirements. The Material Planner will work within defined parameters to make decisions, apply concepts to issues of moderate complexity, and resolve issues through immediate action or
short-term planning.
Parts Planning
Manages current and future demand requirements with manufacturing and supplier capabilities / capacities, to ensure completion of customer requirements.
Ensure planning data parameters of items (order policies, safety stock level, make / buy, lead times for manufactured parts).
Ensures required documentation and / or system transactions are executed, to allocate, purchase, internally manufacture or reschedule material as required.
Expedites material where required, to meet shortfall between current plan and customer order requirements.
Analyse data, including enterprise requirements planning (ERP) information. Prepare reports as required to facilitate and recommend actions that ensures optimal supply chain execution.
Maintains the accuracy and validity of the item master and related planning data in the ERP system,...