Material & Production Planning Engineer

Hitachi, Ltd.; Vadodara; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi, Ltd. in Vadodara is seeking a candidate to act as the focal point for material planning and production planning.

You will translate forecasts into yearly, monthly and weekly procurement and production plans, coordinating with purchasing to ensure supplier performance and on-time deliveries. You will monitor OTD, review BOM accuracy and material master data, and drive S&OP with internal stakeholders to optimize inventory and cost.

Qualifications

• Should work as focal point of material planning and operation planning.
• Understand customer’s forecast and prepare yearly, monthly and weekly material procurement & production plan.
• Monitor customer requested delivery dates and contractual on-time delivery (OTD) performance.
• Review BOM accuracy, planning parameters, material master data, and production order compliance.

Responsibilities

• Work with purchasing to communicate with suppliers on material quality, on-time deliveries, and supplier evaluation.
• Plans and maintains a material procurement process ensuring least total cost, best quality and timely delivery.
• Regular review of inventory parameters and identify slow moving or obsolete inventory.
• Drive S&OP and S&OE with customer and internal stakeholders.
• Execute end-to-end Material Master Process and support efficient planning execution.
• Prepare monthly and day-to-day dispatch plan with Customer support team.

Job description

How you'll make an impact:

• Should work as Focal Point of material planning and Operation planning.
• Understand customer’s forecast and prepare Yearly, monthly and weekly, material procurement & production plan.
• Work with purchasing to communicate with suppliers on Material quality, on-time deliveries, and overall performance. (Supplier Evaluation)
• Monitor customer requested delivery dates and contractual on-time delivery (OTD) performance, proactively managing risks and recovery actions.
• Plans and maintains a material procurement process that establishes and achieves the least total cost, best quality and timely delivery for facility material purchases from internal/external suppliers
• Regular review of inventory parameters
• Analyze inventory reports to identify slow moving items, overstocked items, and obsolete inventory.
• Review BOM accuracy, planning parameters, material master data, and production order compliance to support efficient planning execution.
• Review long term forecast and make visible any sourcing decisions that might be needed
• Drives S&OP and S&OE with customer and internal stack holders.
• Perform all job functions with adherence to Hitachi's Values and Philosophy, Safety and Environmental Standards
• Work with purchasing to identify cost out opportunities related to outside purchased materials
• Work with Production to prepare day wise plan and execute.
• Prepare monthly and day to day dispatch plan and execute with Customer support team.
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• Responsible for executing the end-to-end Material Master Process
• Demonstrated strong organizational skills with the ability to work well under pressure.