Materials Planner: ERP-Driven Production & Sourcing

SANMINA-SCI TECHNOLOGY INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED; Newark (CA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanmina Corporation in Newark, California, is seeking a Material Planner to coordinate production workflow and optimize build plans for multiple products while leading continuous improvement in product flow and capacity. The role emphasizes ERP planning, ECO implementations, and collaboration with Purchasing to ensure material availability and on-time production.

The successful candidate will have a Bachelor’s Degree, 5+ years of related experience in a contract manufacturing environment, strong

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Minimum of 5 years of related Materials Planner experience; preferably in a contract manufacturing environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Industrial Engineering preferred.
• Good understanding of critical ERP planning attributes.
• Hands on experience in ECO planning and Implementations.
• Good working knowledge of Oracle or similar ERP software with regards to planning.
• Intermediate or Advanced Excel experience.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes customer demand and optimize build plans for specific products, keeping materials and resource requirements.
• Reviews new products/parts planning attributes and ensure they are correctly set up.
• Reviews BOM structures and ensures that they align with manufacturing strategy.
• Periodically reviews critical ERP planning attributes and keeps them aligned.
• Review ECOs, prepare implementation plans and actually implement them.
• Releases required work orders in a timely manner and promptly closes them on completion after reconciling variances.
• Follows up materials shortages and production flow thru the plant to keep build plans on schedule.
• Plans and directs Production and Inventory Control for Operations to ensure customer commits and Inventor objectives are met.
• Coordinates Operations planning process to ensure that there is material and capacity available to support both Customer commits and forecast.
• Directs the Inventory team to ensure that process controls are in place that will allow accurate Cycle counting.
• Coordinates the production team to ensure schedule and customer deliveries are met.
• Works directly with Purchasing to insure purchased material is available to meet the scheduled requirements.
• Stays current with software development, provide on-site technical expertise for the ERP system and write ad-hoc reports as required.
• Identifies software procedural improvements to the Operations process to eliminate waste.
• Relays relevant information to management regarding material shortages, potential schedule interruptions, and possible equipment maintenance that would affect a smooth and timely production input.
• Analyzes customer demand information, forecast, orders, labor, and material availability and develops a flexible yet efficient master schedule.
• Reviews part availability including quality approval prior to scheduling.
• Manage the issuance of purchase orders as recommended by the planning system or as requested by management.
• Manage PO approval process, PO revisions, supplier confirmation and storage of all purchase orders on a secured and shared site.
• Manages supplier bidding process with the creation of RFQs submission to suppliers and summary returned information as requested by the Director of Manufacturing.
• Controls Supplier's compliance to on-time delivery, terms and conditions, supply contracts and product specifications.
• Participates as needed in the Product Specification creation/revision process and facilitates execution with suppliers.
• Drive sourcing solutions for existing products as directed by executive management.
• Manage assigned products by maintaining or reducing costs of product components, packaging and finished goods

Skills

Excel

ERP planning concepts

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Business or Industrial Engineering degree preferred

Tools

Oracle ERP

Job description

Sanmina Corporation in Newark, California, is seeking a Material Planner to coordinate production workflow and optimize build plans for multiple products while leading continuous improvement in product flow and capacity. The role emphasizes ERP planning, ECO implementations, and collaboration with Purchasing to ensure material availability and on-time production.

The successful candidate will have a Bachelor’s Degree, 5+ years of related experience in a contract manufacturing environment, strong