Planner

at  Applied Materials Inc

REQUIREMENTS

• Degree in any field with minimum 2 years experience in a related field
• Demonstrates expanded conceptual knowledge in own discipline and broadens capabilities
• Able to understand key business drivers and uses this to accomplish own work
• Ability to s olve problems in straightforward manner

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s Degree

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE:

2 - 4 Years

• Plan activities involving production control, inventory control, process control, or shop floor control / Material Resources Planning (MRP) integrity
• Maintains SAP work order release schedule that provides material on-time to manufacturing and engineering
• Reschedules and/or completes no-charge, all discrete jobs as required
• Increases component availability at time of release by performing pre-shortage analysis
• Performs work order variance analysis
• Review MRP execution and ensures accuracy of information, reconciles supply and demand, validates master scheduling and/or PDS requirements
• Review and ensures proper disposition of Engineering Change Orders (ECO’s)
• Performs regular system maintenance and audits to ensure system accuracy
• Prepares status reports of all ECOs and ECRs in process
• Participates in floor audits with Finance and resolves WIP issues
• Attends production meetings and provides status on material shortage commit dates
• Change “make” level lead times in accordance with reality on the manufacturing floor.
• Work with Engineers to manage materials for special engineering projects
• Assist in inventory control by analyzing usage data and stock levels to order parts to satisfy service levels, maintains inventory levels per plan and expedites shortages and forecast spare parts needs
• Examines material variances, resolves problems where possible, and/or communicates more difficult problems to management
• Assist in setting up new inventory systems or modifying existing systems
• Assign appropriate expediting duties to expediters
• Manage obsolete inventories
• Participate in identifying root cause and corrective action from PCI reporting and metrics, drives cycle counting