Supply Chain Analyst, Master Planning

About This Role

This role involves troubleshooting planning issues, optimizing metal flow, coordinating product route changes, and ensuring timely production for Novelis's North America Supply Chain team, focusing on master planning activities.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot issues planning reported by AMS, production center planners and tolling planners for the assigned product line, investigating, resolving, or documenting and intensifying as appropriate.
• Systematically review concordance between SAP data and S&OP, partnering with Facility Planning teams to assure efficient metal flow to customers.
• Monitor order bookings versus S&OP and available capacity, recommending lead time changes when appropriate.
• Coordinate product route changes to react to unplanned outages or anticipated capacity constraints, determining products involved and initiating/supervising MDM requests.
• Supervise SAP alerts (surplus, late, early, etc.) to identify system issues and work with production center planners to take appropriate action.
• Systematically review order status and metal position in SAP, from procurement of sheet ingot to delivery to customer, to ensure timely production and coordinating corrective actions with production center planners.
• Initiate MDM requests to accurate process/order planning parameters (lot size, lead time, etc.).
• Review lead time by product to ensure order alignment with manufacturing lead time.
• Review historical planned vs. actual lead time by products.
• Work with facility planning teams to expedite any hot/rush orders through production.
• Partner with plant process/quality engineers to assure accuracy of master data parameters (e.g., equipment run rates, yields, etc.) for each product specification.

Requirements

• 2-5 years related experience in multinational manufacturing company
• Excellent communication (oral and written) skills
• Ability to connect with all levels in the organization and work in a team environment
• Desire to take initiative and develop a pro-active relationship with customers
• Must be flexible and able to operate in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to manipulate, cleanse and analyze large amounts of data in Excel
• Ability to extract data from SAP APO, analyze the data in Excel and draw conclusions and recommendations
• Proven understanding of SAP APO planning parameters and their interaction in the timely execution of orders
• Proven digital literacy, including Microsoft Office
• Ability to learn new software programs quickly
• Ability to be onsite 5 days a week

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or similar discipline with exposure to supply chain management through experience and/or course work.
• 2-5 years related experience in multinational manufacturing company, similar industry is preferred.

Nice to Have

• Prior SAP Experience, particularly in APO
• Leadership skills to direct, lead and develop other personnel

Skills

* Required skills