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Job Summary

Cummins Inc. is seeking a highly skilled Buyer Planner Associate to join our team. As a key member of our procurement organization, you will be responsible for determining the quantity and order date for materials needed to support complex business processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Determine the quantity and order date for materials needed to support complex business processes such as supersessions, new product launches, campaigns, HAZMAT, No Source, dual source, and E&O.
• Report any work-related injury, illness, incident, or hazard, and comply with Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) standards, policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Follow applicable standard work, process documentation, and quality procedures, and perform quality checks on material planning master data.
• Manage part change requests and ramp up/ramp down activities to meet global aftermarket demand while minimizing global excess and obsolete inventory.
• Collaborate with Product Management to set initial stocking levels for VPI/NPI P&L introductions, and ensure part readiness to meet target launch dates.
• Confirm Planners are initiating No Source Cases as needed on parts planned by regional sites, and work with Purchasing and other support teams to properly set up local/dual sourced parts.
• Takes ownership of Hazmat part setup to drive compliance with Cummins guidelines and government regulations, and coordinates inventory bank build, monitors demand movement from recurring to non-recurring, and other Campaign-related activities.
• Executes Planning parameter review and improvement work within the Function, and supports Supplier Materials Agreements to reduce lead time and order quantities balancing supply with demand.
• Conducts root cause analysis for E&O and initiates proper inventory disposition in accordance with company guidelines, and demonstrates the target level of proficiency in core competencies.
• Remains flexible and performs other miscellaneous duties as required to meet business goals.

Requirements

• Communicates effectively within the assigned team and with all support teams.
• Completes training and personal development in line with business requirements and career goals.
• Participates in improvement (quality, safety, process, material flow, etc.) projects.

Qualifications

Skills

• Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Drives results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Manages complexity - Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Optimizes work processes - Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Master Supply Scheduling - Establishes and maintains a valid Master Production Schedule for a family of products, which meets customer's expectations and requirements while maximizing operational efficiency; validates procurement scheduling, production scheduling, and replenishment planning are aligned to manufacturing and assembly assets for conversion.
• Materials KPI Management - Operates in relation to recent or historical outputs as compared to expectations of the organization to determine next steps to drive improvement; assesses gaps to the supply chain performance against the expectation of achieving target deliverables; interprets KPIs to understand end-customer impact; strategically balances trade-offs to influence one KPI while minimizing the impact to others.
• Materials Master Data Management - Determines the source of master data (bill-of-material, disposition code, planner code, etc.) ensuring changes are updated at the origin rather than downstream system(s); tracks, monitors, and improves the quality of master data feeding into the demand and supply plan.
• Materials Planning Parameters - Aligns parameters (minimum order quantity, multiple order quantity, lead time, part cost, etc.) to balance the supply and demand plans while stabilizing the supply chain; runs changes to parameter settings in the planning environment and analyzes the impact to customer delivery and inventory.
• Materials Planning System Utilization - Uses the materials planning system to manage supply and demand plans taking long-term corrective action on exception messages and other alerts based on root cause analysis; occasionally refers to adhoc tools such as Excel, Access, TOAD, OMS, etc. in performing problem solving, while leveraging the materials planning system as the primary tool in day-to-day operations.
• Part Change Control Management - Evaluates and implements engineering change request (obsolescence, supersessions, new part release, etc.) to meet customer delivery requirements while minimizing disruptions to the supply chain.