Material Planner - CRRC - Temporary (13 months) at Alstom

PURPOSE OF THE JOB 

• To Manage his/her Supplier's portfolio (Internal and/or External suppliers) for ensuring goods delivery at right time and place based on Alstom needs.
• Express delivery needs to suppliers and animate the Supplier's delivery performances.   
• Drive action plan for performance improvement & contribute for risk management. 

POSITION IN THE ORGANIZATION  

MAIN OFFICE LOCATION:  

• Located in Nigel (Ekurhuleni) at the production site. 

MAIN NETWORK:  

External Suppliers  

• Planning & Logistics Teams, Production, Sourcing, Quality, SDPM (Supplier Delivery Performance Manager) 
• PrSCL (Project Supply Chain Leader) / PrIdM (Project Industrialization Manager), Engineering & Industrialization 
• Finance, Material Planning & SRM Central Team and Internal Suppliers (other Alstom Sites) 

RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES 

MISSIONS 

• Express delivery needs to Suppliers 
• Follow up deliveries and ensure the availability of goods for Alstom projects 
• Monitor Supplier's performances KPI's 
• Participate/lead to Supplier's performances improvement (animation) 
• Contribute with SC inputs for supplier selection 

TASKS 

• Internal suppliers: Manage Purchase Requisition flow up to Material Planning documents 
• External suppliers: Follow up with Sourcing the Purchase Requisition level maturity for launching Material Planning documents 
• Ensure and update the accuracy of material planning master data (in compliance with stock and logistic constraints) 
• Create the Material Planning documents (Call-off, Schedule Agreement) & respective Source List 
• Communicate the Material Planning documents to Suppliers and follow Suppliers confirmation 
• Analyze Suppliers confirmations vs. Alstom needs and evaluate the risk/impact anticipation on production/projects 
• Identify priorities associated with risk/impact anticipation and set up recovery actions 
• Maintain a routine with Suppliers in order to check the status of deliveries 
• Analyze and manage MRP exception messages and anticipate supply problems (backlogs, shortages, no demand…). 
• Maintain delivery dates in ERP 
• Track missing parts until stock availability 
• Ensure non-conformities replacement 
• Resolve Receiving issues (overstock, shortage, damage, documentation, etc.) 
• Analyze and share deliveries performances KPI's with different stakeholders (Internal & External) 
• Collaborate with Material Planning Management/SDPM to validate worst Suppliers and define appropriate action plan (adapted governance: LSCA, LCA, etc...) 
•  Apply appropriate communication routine with Suppliers based on their delivery performances 
• Drive and follow (when involved) Supplier Capacity Assessment 
• Drive and follow (when involved) Supplier's Light Capability Assessment (LSCA)  
• Contribute to new business risk assessments and mitigation action plan 

GENERAL SCOPE 

• Apply APSYS roadmap and standards 
• Respect Alstom EHS policy 
• Participate to EHS improvement and targets achievement 
• Respect Alstom Ethics & Compliance codes 

EDUCATION 

• National Diploma/Degree in Supply Chain 
• ERP: SAP  
• Experience with MS Office tools 

EXPERIENCE 

• Excellent communication. 
• 5 years material/production planning experience.  
• Advanced knowledge of Supply chain processes especially in warehouse & material flows 
• Sound material/production planning experience in an industrial/manufacturing. 
• Strong industrial background, with experience in Management: Production/ Supply Chain/ Quality/ Industrialization/ Methods Engineering. 
• Experience in Supplier relationship and management (Qualification of suppliers, Project development, Serial Life Management, Problem Solving). 
• Experience in Automotive, Aeronautics or Rail companies desirable, with exposure to manufacturing. 

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE/COMPETENCIES 

• Strong interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills 
• Commercial and financial awareness, with a full understanding of the impact of failure with regards to business costs, production targets and fulfilment of customer orders 
• Results orientated and organised with the ability to plan and deliver against deadlines 
• Strong analytical, planning and problem-solving skills 
• Project management skills 
• Excellent attention to detail skills 
• Strong negotiation skills & leadership 
• Active team player, deadline driven, process driven 
• Good communicator with the ability to form and maintain good relationships internally and externally. 

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES  

• Strong leadership (in front of Supplier and internal Stakeholders) 
• Cross Functional Team management 
• Can drive the Change/ is a Change Agent 
• Autonomous  
• Able to get global vision of the business, risks & opportunities 
• Priorities & Project Management  
• Materials requirements planning 
• Inventory management & Material Planning techniques 
• Industrial scheduling 
• Transport & Distribution 
• Supply Chain information systems 
• Data analytics 
• Sourcing For Non-Sourcing 
• Entrepreneurship 
• Agility 
• Collaboration