Planner
Join us and play a crucial role in shaping our operations, driving growth, and achieving excellence.
About Kitron
Kitron is a leading Scandinavian Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) company, delivering improved flexibility, cost efficiency, and innovation power through the value chain. The company has operations in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, India, China, Malaysia and the United States. With 2500 highly skilled employees, Kitron manufactures and delivers anything from fully assembled electronic circuit boards to complete end - products for customers globally. Related technical services like prototyping, industrialisation, material analysing and test development are also key competencies offered by Kitron.
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Location: Senai, Johor, Malaysia
Deadline: August 31, 2024
Job Description:
1. Production & Material Planning:
- Understand manufacturing process, develop and maintain production schedules based on sales forecasts, inventory levels, production capacity, and delivery status. Manage production from raw materials to finished goods for efficiency and effectiveness.
- Collaborate with various departments, including production, warehouse, logistics, procurement, key account manager, to align planning efforts with customers demand, to ensure smooth production operations and material flow.
- Collaborate with production HOD/ Supervisor to schedule production orders and allocate resources effectively.
- Align production plans with raw material availability based on customer orders, forecasts, and material lead times to meet delivery schedules.
- Manage and schedule inventory (raw materials, WIP, and finished goods) and material management to ensure accurate tracking and forecasting of inventory levels.
- Communicate effectively with key account team and customers regarding forecasts, orders and delivery schedules.
- Update and maintain the IFS ERP system by entering customer forecasts and orders, creating shop orders, tracking production progress, and generating shipping documents and invoices.
- Develop and maintain shipment plans for customer orders, ensuring alignment with production schedules and delivery commitments.
- Perform weekly, monthly and annual KPI statistics and analysis to measure and improve performance.
- Analyze the results of production plan implementations to enhance their rationality and accuracy.
- Manage the timing of Engineering Change Orders (ECOs), ensuring they are implemented and tracked effectively.
2. Any other ad-hoc tasks assigned by the management.
Requirements:
- Candidate must possess a diploma or bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business administration or a related field.
- Preferably 3 years or above experience in a planning role (production & material planning).
- Previous experience in a planning or similar role within the electronics manufacturing services (EMS) industry is highly preferred.
- Strong cross-functional communication skills, both internally with departments and externally with customers.
- Attentive to detail and focus on accuracy.
- Strong logical reasoning skills and sensitivity to data and metrics.
- Basic understanding of production processes.
- Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities and manage multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
- Department
- Supply Chain
- Role
- Planner
- Locations
- Kitron Malaysia
Planner
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