Material Expeditor

SUMMARY:
Our client in the automotive manufacturing industry is seeking a suitably qualified and experienced Material Expeditor to accept responsibility for planning and arranging manufacturing components, logistics costs, and protection of supply.

POSITION INFO:
REQUIREMENTS

• National Diploma or a Bachelor's degree and experience in materials planning, logistics, and/ or supply chain
• Must have excellent computer skills and thorough knowledge of MRP, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and MS Excel
• Understanding of both the automotive and commercial vehicle industry preferred
• Must be proficient in the use of eBusiness tools and Microsoft Office Suite
• Possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience in assembly, machining, and forging operations preferred
• Must be detail-oriented, proactive in anticipating requirements and able to work efficiently with minimal direction in a sometimes high-pressure environment
• Skilled in composing written correspondence and preparing presentations for senior management
• Successfully interacts with a dispersed leadership team and others across functions and sites
• Must be proactive, detail-oriented, and have excellent organization, planning and follow-through skills
• Committed to tasks and skilled at identifying and solving a variety of problems of broad scope and complexity with little to no supervision
• Must be able to work flexible hours
• Core competencies
  • Strategy: ability to think and act in a strategic way
  • Talent: ability to build and develop talent
  • Approach: ability to demonstrate an effective approach to engagement and problem-solving
  • Results: ability to achieve planned results

• Plan and arrange manufacturing components, logistics costs, and protection of supply
• Ensure long-horizon forecast is extended to all suppliers (52-week forecast)
• Understand customer demand and forecast
• Work closely with production planners to understand the scheduling of the production lines
• Analyse MRP reports and send weekly releases to the supplier base
• Micro-manage expediting of raw materials from local and international suppliers
• Make sure the raw materials are on time for production
• Communicate daily with freight forwarders regarding the import of raw materials
• Maintain inventory at an acceptable level
• Control and reduce logistics costs
  • Improve the utilisation of planned trucks daily with freight forwarders and transporters
  • Improve internal supply chain and materials flow between the company's plants (utilise value stream mapping)
  • Work in a cross-functional team to optimise the company's freight and warehouse network, tying in forecast and order management logic
• Protection of supply
  • Escalate potential supply issues to the material manager if required
  • Allocate parts between the company's plants if required
  • Send out weekly purchase orders to suppliers
  • Ensure suppliers have the required parts ready for collection as per the purchase orders sent out weekly
  • Manage all material alarms in One Network
• Deliverable
  • Avoid stopping internal customers
  • Reduce/ eliminate any airfreight costs
  • Keep obsolescence at an absolute minimum
  • Maintain inventory at an acceptable level as per the forecast