Senior Production Planning & Logistics Engineer

Yazaki North America, Inc.; Adapazarı; On-site; TRY 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Yazaki North America, Inc. seeks a Production Planning Engineer in its plant in Adapazarı, Turkey.

The role focuses on material planning for finished products, coordinating with OEMs and Tier 1/2 suppliers, and managing SAP Master Data for part numbers and plant codes. Responsibilities include ensuring on-time deliveries, stock monitoring, 3PL coordination, and delivering data-driven KPI reporting to optimize logistics processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field.
• Minimum 8 years experience in similar positions.
• Advanced level of Excel and MS Office applications.
• Analytical thinking, result- and customer-oriented approach, and strong interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Material planning of finished products and direct local contact for the OEM and other Tier 1 and Tier 2 customers.
• Procurement of products from different suppliers according to schedule.
• Create / extend new part numbers to the related Plant Code in SAP Master Data.
• Dispatch of goods to the different customers in accordance with agreed schedules and purchase orders.
• Support monitoring of stock with regard to short deliveries and over deliveries.
• Tracking of empties and stock of returnable packaging.
• Coordinate with the plants and with OEM to establish a secure process for correct devolution in our FGS end item suppliers and manufacturing plants.
• Organising project delivery preparations, give directions to 3PL to ensure deliveries are prepared for correct ship-to parties.
• Responsible for transport related topics including coordination & tracking of special shipments.
• Monitoring of delivery dates and customs clearance (documents, preferences, invoices) to guarantee flawless transport.
• Support organization with data preparation for reporting / KPI's.
• Uploading inv. files from customer and creating SD's.
• Analysis for continuous improvement in logistics processes.
• General customer care regarding logistic issues.
• Continuous improvement and optimization of the steady flow of goods and information.
• Contact with IT to have necessary supports in case of any bottleneck in SAP system.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Customer oriented

Interpersonal skills

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor’s degree in International Trade, Logistics, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering or relevant fields

Tools

SAP

MS Excel

ERP systems

Job description

Yazaki North America, Inc. seeks a Production Planning Engineer in its plant in Adapazarı, Turkey.

The role focuses on material planning for finished products, coordinating with OEMs and Tier 1/2 suppliers, and managing SAP Master Data for part numbers and plant codes. Responsibilities include ensuring on-time deliveries, stock monitoring, 3PL coordination, and delivering data-driven KPI reporting to optimize logistics processes.