Schneider Electric USA, Inc. seeks a Regional Upstream Planning Manager in Franklin, TN.
Job Description: Standardize mid and long-term planning process for Electrical and Electronics commodity parts in the NAM region by ensuring supplier capacity and commitment to improving supply chain resilience. Contribute to business continuity, inventory optimization, continuous improvement, and digitization. Lead the development and formulation of long and mid-range planning, policies, programs, and objectives related to materials planning management. Manage and escalate the main capacity gap and act on demand shaping. Provide a net demand file in case of capacity gap. Control the execution of quota and detect the main business risk, also ensuring long-term POs are placed by all manufacturing plants and distribution centers of North America regions according to validated forecasts. Work with Plant Upstream Planners and set up a task force to drive action plans to understand the customer impact for critical shortage items. Collaborate with procurement to develop joint business plans for critical suppliers. Formalize the action to cover the capacity risk as well as business risk. Lead time reduction, MOQ Optimization and Optiflow by implementing LTC with suppliers and strategic stocks. Connect and engage supplier on digital tools like SSP and SupplyOn. Implement a monthly process to track, monitor, and improve monthly forecast (accuracy and bias) with critical suppliers on vendor forecasting. Monitor supplier performance on delivery, cash, premiums, and expedites, and proactively identify and mitigate risks. Create performance metrics and standards for all aspects of materials management and implement improvement initiatives. Eligible for up to 3 days remote work per week.
Requirements: Position requires a bachelor's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Electronic or Electrical Engineering, or related field and 5 years of progressive, post-bachelor's experience in upstream or downstream planning, supply chain management, or related occupation, which must include at least some experience in the following skills : Material planning and vendor forecasting using SSP or SupplyOn; Supplier, Procurement and inventory management; Implementing LTC with suppliers and strategic stock for lead time reduction, MOQ optimization and Optiflow; Preparing master production schedules using product lifecycle knowledge, including NPI to EOL; Planning for manufacturing supply chain; Optimizing BI reporting tools; Implementing continuous improvement and digitization in manufacturing supply chain; and Analyzing supply chain metrics and KPI's and managing crises in manufacturing supply chain.
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137 000+ employees in 100+ countries
45% of revenue from IoT
5% of revenue devoted for R&D
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