Applications are invited from suitably qualified & experienced candidates to fill the Temp Material Control Analyst positions in the Logistics Department - Production (Kariega)
Contract will be between 12 and 15 months
Responsibilities
To ensure the sufficient and timeous supply of Quality CKD & Direct Purchase components to production, in the most economical manner to meet our customer demands as well as our Company’s objectivestowards quality, costs and schedules
- Controlling inventory namely; shortages, surplus, potential obsolescence and production run out.
- Ordering parts and determine best possible solution to part shortage problems.
- Managing Engineering Changes.
- Controlling the budget of key performance items i.e., airfreight costs, SV costs, road haulage costs, inventory value management and claims management.
- Analysing daily critical parts report in order to identify potential production shortages.
- Initiating stock count requests against parts which have not been recently stock counted and/or where stock base appears incorrect.
- Analysing packing data files in order to ensure that stock receipts are in accordance with CKD order volumes.
- Calculating stock balancing quantities and place SV stock replenishment orders with consideration of airfreight costs.
- Liaising and following up with expeditors in order to ensure that stock for Production arrives on time.
- Liaising with the Logistics service provider and Expediting Officer in order to expedite containers timeously.
- Identifying potential obsolete stock and initiate deviations through Product Engineering in order to exhaust surplus stock.
- Monitoring and controlling stock movement against run out ECR in order to minimize obsolescence.
- Ensure accurate and stable forecasting of volumes that will be released via the VDA on the day of transmission.
Qualification requirements
National Diploma or Degree in Logistics/ Purchasing/Materials/Inventory Management
Experience needed
- Minimum of 3 years Materials/Inventory related experience in the Automotive Industry
- 1-2 years’ SAP Systems experience, R3 production, controlled Warehousing environment
- Basic understanding of the logistics concept and production systems
- Computer literacy i.e., Microsoft Office Package (Excel advanced & PowerPoint advanced)
- Strong communication skills
- Analytically minded and a systematic individual with tenacious ability to resolve Problems