Sr Materials Planner (Reynosa)

Job Details

What will you do?

• Responsible for performing complex procurement functions in compliance with Johnson Controls internal policies, participating in bids under corporate direction, addressing issues with suppliers, and keeping metrics for inventory value, turns, escalations, and discrepancies according to goals.
• Comply with guidelines and regulations of Environmental Health & Safety.
• Procure assigned materials to meet inventory turns, cost, quality, and customer requirements.
• Place purchase orders through Optimize for assigned materials and execute maintenance as the system requires according to forecast (expedite, de‑expedite & cancel).
• Analyze Optimize shortages report for each vendor (consign & no consign).
• Conduct E&O review and follow up with actions to minimize inventory impact.
• Follow up with SOI projects implementation with MKE procurement team.
• Approve premium freight.
• Ensure routing guide is distributed to all vendors whenever updated and support foreign vendors with shipping instructions as needed.
• Provide ETA responses for all Planning Summarized files (Special requests).
• Maintain purchasing parameters as required (MOQ, MPU, LT time, pricing, Auto Reply Flag, current cost - IVM Format).
• Support procurement in reduction initiatives, cost & lead time reduction, supplier consolidation, and inventory management programs with a supply base that includes vendor stocking, consignment, and vendor‑managed inventory.

How will you do it?

• Procure assigned materials to meet the goals of Johnson Controls regarding inventory turns, cost, quality, and customer requirements.
• Place purchase orders through Optimize for assigned materials and execute maintenance as the system requires according to forecast (expedite, de‑expedite & cancel).
• Analyze Optimize shortages report for each vendor (consign & no consign).
• Conduct E&O review and follow up with actions to minimize inventory impact.
• Follow up with SOI projects implementation with MKE procurement team.
• Approve premium freight.
• Ensure routing guide is distributed to all vendors anytime this is updated and supports foreign vendors with shipping instructions as needed.
• Provide ETA responses for all Planning Summarized files (Special requests).
• Maintain purchasing parameters as required (MOQ, MPU, LT time, pricing, Auto Reply Flag, current cost - IVM Format).
• Support procurement in reduction initiatives, cost & lead time reduction, supplier consolidation, and inventory management programs with supply base that includes vendor stocking, consignment, and vendor‑managed inventory.

What we look for

Required

• University degree and 1 year suggested minimum experience, or 2-year degree and 6 years suggested minimum experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• SAP experience.
• Experience with managing suppliers in a high volume/high mix manufacturing environment.

Preferred

• APICS Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) certification.
• Experience with inventory forecasting, developing supplier schedules, and reducing scheduling variances.

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