You will be taken to Cummins’s own careers page to apply. Job ID 2439637.
Job description
Job Summary: To plan and maintain daily Supply Chain operations in one or more functional areas such as materials, production, inventory, logistics, customer service, demand management or order fulfillment. Ensures internal and external customers' expectations and requirements are met.
Key Responsibilities: Develop planning system strategies to improve signals across the supply chain Monitor and adjust parameters in the planning system. Use common processes tools, and information systems. Analyze and interpret Key Performance Indicators to identify areas for improvement and action plans. Execute the daily operational planning process within a specified functional area. Identify potential supply chain failures as part of the planning process and mitigate associated risks Work closely with stakeholders - internal and/or external to develop short term tactical improvements. Use the planning system to drive consistent planning signals across the supply chain Participate in functional process improvement teams
Responsibilities
Competencies: Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
Global perspective - Taking a broad view when approaching issues, using a global lens.
Manages complexity - Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
Optimizes work processes - Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.
Materials Planning System Utilization - Uses the materials planning system to manage supply and demand plans taking long-term corrective action on exception messages and other alerts based on root cause analysis; occasionally refers to adhoc tools such as Excel, Access, TOAD, OMS, etc. in performing problem solving, while leveraging the materials planning system as the primary tool in day-to-day operations.
Part Change Control Management - Evaluates and implements engineering change request (obsolescence, supersessions, new part release, etc.) to meet customer delivery requirements while minimizing excess and obsolete inventory.
Plan for Every Part (PFEP) - Uses PFEP in planning, designing, and management of systems and processes within a facility to ensure delivery of right part at the right time in the right quantity to the right place, which in turn guarantees smooth operations; applies PFEP principles on the end to end supply chain with particular attention to the relationships between master data management, materials planning parameters, engineered material flows, transport management, and warehouse management.
Master Supply Scheduling - Establishes and maintains a valid Master Production Schedule for a family of products, which meets customer’s expectations and requirements while maximizing operational efficiency; validates procurement scheduling, production scheduling, and replenishment planning are aligned to manufacturing and assembly assets for conversion.
Material Planning - Uses advanced tools (e.g. Advanced Planning Command Centre, Business Intelligence (BI) Dashboards etc.) to take a decision related to parts availability, inventory optimization and root cause analysis.
Materials KPI Management - Operates in relation to recent or historical outputs as compared to expectations of the organization to determine next steps to drive improvement; assesses gaps to the supply chain performance against the expectation of achieving target deliverables; interprets KPIs to understand end-customer impact; strategically balances trade-offs to influence one KPI while minimizing the impact to others.
Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.
Education, Licenses, Certifications: College, university, or equivalent degree required. This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.
Experience: Minimal to intermediate level of experience required
Requirements
This role is to offer support in the US time zone and hence incumbent needs to operate in Night Shift (5PM to 2AM IST). At SCS&A we offer Night Shift allowance & Pickup and Drop facilities (within PMC & PCMC jurisdiction)to all employees working in this shift.
The role specific requirements are as below –
Lead a team of Material Planners, driving performance through effective KPI management, workload prioritization, and continuous process improvement.
Monitor and maintain key supply chain and planning metrics
Collaborate cross-functionally with Supply Chain, Procurement, Operations, Logistics, Customer Service, and other stakeholders to resolve critical issues, mitigate risks, and support seamless business operations.
Coordination with internal or external supplier base and stakeholders across various functions
Processing and monitoring orders against supplier. Work towards meeting the supply plan Monitor and make adjustments to the planned and release procurement signals and expedite as necessary Metrics analysis & Reporting. Experience in Kinaxis , GOMS and aftermarket material planning.
