**DESCRIPTION** **Key Responsibilities:** + Ensure internal and external customers' expectations and requirements are met. + Manage the daily operational processes for a critical segment of the supply chain. + Eliminate potential supply chain failures as part of the daily planning process. + Champion preventive practices to eliminate expediting to supply chain leadership as appropriate to prevent problems. + Lead cross-functional stakeholders to develop and implement short and mid-term tactical improvements. + Comply with communication plans and processes to ensure stakeholders’ needs are met. + Leverage common processes, tools, and information systems. + Approve system strategies and advise on changes to planning systems parameters as required. + Analyze and interpret KPIs to identify areas for improvement and action plans. + Lead Six Sigma and functional process improvement teams. + Liaise with functional stakeholders to mitigate mid-term supplier or customer constraints. + Mentor and coach supply chain planners. + Ensure common processes are being utilized and internal controls are in place. **RESPONSIBILITIES** **Qualifications:** + **Education:** Engineering Degree (Must have) **Competencies:** + **Collaborates:** Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. + **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. + **Develops talent:** Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals. + **Ensures accountability:** Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments. + **Global perspective:** Taking a broad view when approaching issues, using a global lens. + **Values differences:** Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization. **QUALIFICATIONS** **Knowledge/Skills:** + **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. + **Part Change Control Management:** Evaluates and implements engineering change requests 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 the right part at the right time in the right quantity to the right place. + **Analysis and Troubleshooting:** Extracts, transforms, models, interprets, and presents planning data to mine useful information, troubleshoot, suggest conclusions, and support value-creating decision-making. + **Master Supply Scheduling:** Establishes and maintains a valid Master Production Schedule for a family of products, meeting customer expectations and requirements while maximizing operational efficiency. + **Material Planning:** Uses advanced tools to make decisions related to parts availability, inventory optimization, and root cause analysis. + **Materials KPI Management:** Operates in relation to recent or historical outputs compared to organizational expectations to determine next steps for improvement. + **Material Planning / Supplier Procurement (Must have):** + Manages all aspects of the material plan based on requirements across the regional/global network. + Manages accuracy of aggregate supplier schedules onto suppliers. + Actively manage Supplier performance, identifying any aspect of suboptimal performance, driving accountability for improvement actions. + **Know-how of Material Availability/Shortage issues (Must have):** + Actively manage Supplier commitment. + Ensure material is made available through LT into the region. + **Managing exceptions** + **Execute RCA on KPI misses and ensure these are converted into SMART plans (Must have)** + **Worked on Inventory Reduction (Preferred)** + **Knows use of Safety stocks (Preferred)** + **Allocation Planning/Constraint planning (Nice to have)** + **System use (Oracle/SAP) (Nice to have)** **Enterprise Skills:** + **Learning attitude** + **Prioritization & Working under pressure (Must have)** + **Good English Communication skills (Both speaking and writing)** **Experience:** + 8-12 years in Material Planning / Procurement / Production planning (Must have) + Handling Critical Suppliers and allocation of 30-40 suppliers / 1000+ parts + Experience in Manufacturing Plant material planning (Nice to have) **Job** Supply Chain Planning **Organization** Cummins Inc. **Role Category** Hybrid **Job Type** Exempt - Experienced **ReqID** 2411382 **Relocation Package** No