Analyst - Planning

Flex; Chennai; On-site; INR 500,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

Flex in Chennai, India is seeking an Analyst - Planning to support materials planning and production schedules. You will work in a fast-paced environment, ensuring timely materials and smooth execution across projects, while maintaining strong stakeholder service and teamwork.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years in planning or supply chain, familiarity with ERP/P2P tools, and proficiency in MS Excel. Kinaxis knowledge is a plus for this role in a manufacturing setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 2+ years in planning or supply chain.
• Experience with ERP/SCM tools and planning concepts.
• Knowledge of MPS/MRP and production planning processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide planning and materials support for weekly production orders.
• Monitor material availability via shortage reports and reports.
• Support NPI accounts with fast, accurate service and communication.
• Forecast shipments and develop feasible loading schedules.
• Manage work orders and inventory control activities.

Skills

Planning & SCM

MS Excel

Kinaxis

ERP/P2P systems

SAP/Oracle

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kinaxis

BAAN

SAP

Oracle

Job description

Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we re looking to add a Analyst - Planning in Chennai, India. An professional who can quickly and accurately process planning orders in a fast paced environment. Has excellent stake holders service skills and works well in a team to consistently meet challenging performance targets.

What a typical day looks like:

• Responsible for providing expertise and support to the Customer Focus Team (CFT), ensuring the ability of the materials planning for a specific project or projects as required providing materials support to the weekly production planned orders and enables to achieve Kit on time drop to meet Customer Schedule.
• Key assignments include providing timely Materials status through use of available Shortage reports, Submission of Excess and Obsolete Inventory to the Customer, Work Order Management, inventory management, MRB and DR Management to achieve the operating goals.
• Senior Materials Planners for New Emerging NPI Accounts to provide faster service to the NPI Customer to effectively communicate with the customer protecting business interest of Flex.
• Working on customer forecast shipment using waterfall method.
• Responsible for analyzing availability of materials capacity based on customer demand coming up with aggressive but achievable loading schedule.
• Responsible for running weekly system reports to determine material shortages work on their closure with buying team.
• Responsible for handling work order management based on build plan. Responsible for identifying taking various inventory management measures.

The experience we re looking to add to our team:

• Education: Bachelor s Degree 2
  + yrs. Experience in Planning/ Supply Chain Purchasing, Planning and Supply Chain knowledge/experience (Not Mandatory).
• Mandatory Knowledge of computer software applications, MS Excel, Word PowerPoint (PF) Knowledge of planning tool like Kinaxis will be an added advantage.
• Proficiency: ERP/P2P systems, BAAN / SAP/ Oracle,
• Kinaxis knowledge will be added advantage.
• Knowledge of Engineering BOMs, product structure, EOL, ECO Management
• Process Knowledge: complete planning cycle including MPS, MRP, Demand Planning, Materials planning, Production planning.
• Communication: Communication, both verbal and written, is an important part of this role.

Job Category Global Procurement Supply Chain

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