Materials Planning Support Professional

Extensive Planning and steering of customer orders under the consideration of and compliance with capacities, order times and inventory limitations and delivery performance (monitoring ship-to-request).
Realize and identify delivery difficulties and initiate measurements to fulfil delivery dates (e.g. replacement purchase, adjusting production and delivery sequence) or differing dates to be aligned with Customer Service.
Schedule parts/materials for assuring an undisturbed material supply in terms of quantities and delivery dates, in alignment with general and existing specifications
Guarantee deliveries in terms of quantities and dates also in critical situations.
Correct and monitor proactively demand, based on data and IT-systems, control delivery schedule, adjust surplus materials and wrong parts.
Generate and release delivery schedules and align with suppliers (both internal and external); dispose special parts (critical in manufacturing and for customers).
Initiate measurements of guaranteeing production and customer deliveries in case of shortages and other delivery problems (e.g. delivery shortage, quality issues, force majeure), such as alternative suppliers under the pre-requisite of quality, economics and reliability).
Order critical parts on time and well ahead
Support plans for scrapping and surplus and not needed material.
Propose solutions to improve Planning KPIs with Supply Chain & Analytics.
Manage mid-long term escalations with suppliers to customers.
Define demand & supply characteristics and propose optimize segmentation and planning strategies.