Production/Material Planner
Bayan Lepas, MY
Organization & Role
Location: Malaysia, Penang
The Teradyne Operations team is looking for a highly motivated, energetic, driven planner to focus on material plans that support our customers with on time delivery. The Planner must be a driven problem solver to support customer requests, and project plans while working to reduce lead-time and cost. The planner must ensure that plans are met while working to minimize excess and obsolescence. The planner must be a strong communicator to describe a material plan that supports the customer and describe the costs and risks to do so to Senior Management.
Responsibilities
- To work with Marketing specialist to understand customer needs, figure out ways to support customer requests, result orientated.
- Analysis Customer changes order requests, analysis ATPs, workout trade off proposals, run Simulation with contract manufacturer to provide the best delivery commits in time manner.
- To Calculate and put up demand variance buffer model in place to position independent forecast to support customer changes within drop window.
- Be on top of any issues that may impact on time delivery, such as, gating shortages, drop in demand, quality issues and related ECO impact and so on.
- Be responsible for the ECOs/deviation review and approval.
- LTB parts ATP calculation and Commit.
- Be responsible to clear paperwork in time to guarantee slots on time launching and shipping- CORC, Bookings and shipping holds. Z
- Be responsible for Refurb material application and Customer approval process.
- Any other tasks as assigned.
Basic Qualifications & Skills
- BS/BA is preferred.
- Understand MRP running logic in and out, related to multiple MRP centers Supply vs Consumption netting off, ATP concept, basic forecasting process.
- must have a thorough understanding of ECO on planning aspects, material impacts, multiple level high level assembly impacts, future effective dates changes impact.
- must be an experienced user of Excel, master and use basic excel formulas smoothly, access ability is a plus.
- Willingness to learn and ability to handle pressure, challenges, be open mind and teamwork.
- Problem solving skills, result Orientation.
- Must speak, read and write in English, Mandarin is a Plus
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Material Planner, Supply, Industrial, Manufacturing, Operations