NPI Materials Planner - SAP BOM & Scheduling

Acara Solutions, Inc.; Wilmington (MA); On-site; USD 104,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

Acara Solutions is seeking a Materials Planner to support New Product Introduction (NPI) processes in collaboration with Engineering, Supply Chain and Program Management. The role focuses on aligning material needs and updating BOMs in SAP to speed the R&D process.

You will work in a SAP-centric environment, ensuring on-time delivery and coordinating with cross-functional teams to meet project milestones and production schedules.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Operations Management, Finance, Materials Management, or Computer Information Sciences.

Responsibilities

• Plans, schedules, coordinates or monitors final approval of products through the complete Product Development Process (PDP).
• Coordinates production plans for new products ensuring availability of material to meet project schedules.
• Manages on-time-delivery goals of products by committed ship date.
• Works to resolve capacity, material constraints and other potential schedule interruptions.
• Approves unit quantities, schedules and parts lists provided to the material control organization to ensure timely and complete ordering, as well as receipt and issuance of production material requirements.
• Manages and implements NPI Engineering Change Orders (ECOs).
• Coordinates with engineering to create and maintain Bill of Material (BOMs) in SAP.
• Manages the release of parts, modules or units to appropriate department in production.
• Creates and maintains work orders, purchase requests and internal transfer orders.

Skills

Supply Chain

BOM management

MRP/ERP

Excel

MS Project

Cross-functional collaboration

SAP ERP

Education

Bachelor of Science Degree in Operations Management or Finance or Materials Management or Computer Information Sciences

Tools

SAP ERP

Job description

Acara Solutions is seeking a Materials Planner to support New Product Introduction (NPI) processes in collaboration with Engineering, Supply Chain and Program Management. The role focuses on aligning material needs and updating BOMs in SAP to speed the R&D process.

You will work in a SAP-centric environment, ensuring on-time delivery and coordinating with cross-functional teams to meet project milestones and production schedules.