Operation Material Planner
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Job Location:
Pasir Gudang - Malaysia
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
9 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain material requirements plans based on production forecasts customer orders and inventory targets
- Monitor and maintain optimal inventory levels and coordinate replenishment to prevent stockouts while optimizing working capital
- Analyze material usage trends and collaborate with production control and process engineering to improve forecast accuracy
- Create and release purchase requisitions according to lead times and production schedules
- Coordinate with suppliers and internal stakeholders to ensure timely material availability and ensuring on-time delivery of materials and components
- Generate and analyze material requirement forecasts based on production plans
- Track and report material-related metrics and KPIs
- Participate in supply chain and material planning improvement and optimization initiatives
- Identify opportunities and support cost reduction and process improvement efforts through efficient material planning
- Identify and resolve material shortages through expediting substitutions or production schedule adjustments
- Collaborate with cross-functional team including manufacturing procurement finance development quality and logistics teams
- Maintain accurate material master data in enterprise systems
- Responsible for ISO BCMS SOX compliance.
Qualifications :
Required:
- Bachelors degree in supply chain Operations Business or related field
- 2-4 years of material planning experience in manufacturing environment
- Proficiency in SAP and Microsoft Office Suite
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience with inventory management and material planning systems
Technical Skills:
- MRP/ERP systems (SAP Oracle etc.)
- Advanced Microsoft Excel (pivot tables VLOOKUP data analysis)
- Data visualization tools (Power BI Tableau)
- Inventory management software
- Statistical forecasting techniques
Additional Information :
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Kanban
- Inventory Control
- Purchasing
- Maximo
- SAP
- Supply Chain Experience
- Production Planning
- SAP ERP
- ERP Systems
- Materials Management
- Manufacturing
- MRP
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