Your Roadmap to Impact:
Core planning & coordination
- Review production schedules (weekly horizon minimum, extending 4–8 weeks based on lead times) and determine material requirements using our ERP system
- Generate and maintain replenishment schedules, ensuring adequate stock coverage across all active BOMs
- Track open purchase orders and supplier delivery confirmations, flagging delays and risks proactively
- You identify material shortages, supply bottlenecks, and procurement gaps before they impact production
Drive supplier & procurement collaboration
- Work directly with Supply Chain Specialists to communicate urgent material needs and negotiate accelerated delivery timelines when necessary
- Support monitoring of supplier performance, lead time compliance, quality, delivery reliability
- Coordinate with suppliers on order status, lead time changes, and supply chain disruptions
- Maintain accurate material master data, lead times, and supplier information in ERP
Reporting & visibility
- Prepare weekly/monthly bottleneck and material availability reports for production and leadership
- Track critical/long-lead components and provide early-warning alerts via traffic light reporting (green/yellow/red)
- Document material shortages, engineering changes, and their downstream impact on procurement timelines
- You support demand planning refinement and forecast accuracy improvements
Support process & systems
- Place orders on framework contracts
- You help maintain BOM data quality and accuracy
- Contribute to supply chain process improvements and system enhancements
- Support inventory optimization initiatives and obsolescence management
Navigate export control & compliance
- You understand and follow export control requirements (EAR/ECCN, customs, BAFA) applicable to our supply chain
- You flag material procurement requests with potential export control implications for review by our compliance team