Type: Full-Time | Travel: Domestic
Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for optimizing global supply chains? We are looking for a Supply Chain Analyst to spearhead our national inventory strategy. In this role, you will balance corporate sales goals and market share with optimal inventory levels, ensuring our Parts Distribution Centers (PDCs) operate at peak efficiency.
The Impact You’ll Make
- Strategic Inventory Management: Manage parts availability based on demand, value, and stocking locations to hit key performance targets for service levels and inventory turnover.
- Vendor Negotiation: Establish and track delivery plans for nationwide critical back-orders and campaigns. You will be the point person for holding vendors accountable to contract service levels.
- Constraint Resolution: Proactively manage retail back-orders by initiating special procurement processes and escalating critical issues to avoid customer dissatisfaction.
- Operational Excellence: Optimize order management and logistics costs by determining the best transportation modes while monitoring transit inventory and lead times.
- Data-Driven Forecasting: Utilize advanced forecasting techniques to schedule orders for engines, transmissions, and seasonal items, making adjustments to ensure precise replenishment.
- Root Cause Analysis: Analyze back-order trends and planning inaccuracies to recommend parameter changes that improve the overall material matrix.
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain Management
- Experience: 2–5 years in Integrated Supply Chain Management (ISCM). Additional experience in automotive, purchasing, or vendor management is a plus.
- Technical Expertise: Proficiency in JDA and SAP
- Analytical Depth: Solid understanding of supply chain principles and the ability to serve as a Subject Matter Expert for planning processes and systems.
- Mindset: A resilient problem-solver who can work flexible hours and adapt to a fast-paced field organization.
salary: $49.99 - $50 per hour
shift: First
work hours: 8 AM - 5 PM
education: Bachelors
Responsibilities
• Reviews parts availability based on demand and determine volumes, value and stocking locations for parts replenishment and maintenance of an inventory that will achieve such key performance index targets as service level, turns goals and inventory level (value) for each assigned parts group.
- Exemplify "SMART stocking strategy and make decisions in line with material matrix
- Solid understanding and utilization of Supply Chain Principals
• Negotiates and establishes delivery plans to ensure parts availability of nationwide critical vendor back-orders, modification and campaign parts, initial stock orders and critical VPC orders. Updates the delivery commitment information from Vendors for MB Dealers and Field organization.
- Track and Report vendor service level performance referenced in contract
• Ensures all retail back-orders are adequately addressed with supplier orders and reconciled with PAC and/or Parts Technical. Initiate special procurement process and escalates critical back orders to vendors to avoid buy back situation and/or customer dissatisfaction.
- Root Cause analysis on specific parts which lead to proposing alternative suppliers
• Ensures proper order management, taking into consideration vendor lead times, in transit inventory. Determines the best mode of transportation to be utilized in the procurement of inventory, ensuring that logistics costs are optimized and highest possible profit margin is attained.
Skills
Qualifications
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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.
