Material & Production Control Manager

Mission：

・Cooperate with the customer service team and the procurement team for all the plants to secure the missions above

Coordinate and manage the plant SIOP (Sales, Inventory, and Operations Plan) and MPS (Master Production Scheduling) processes.

・Recognize and manage all demands for products from customers by driving Sales and operation plans and Master Production Schedules.

・Ensure SIOP/MPS are realistic and consistent with customers’ orders, plant objectives, and capacities.

・Manage the load of the plant and propose resource allocations regarding customer demands.

・Manage inventory.

Responsibilities：

Cooperate with the customer service team and the procurement team for all the plants to secure the missions above：

・Define and follow up indicators and targets for the team.

・Support the implementation with the appropriate departments (Production, Logistics, Purchasing, Valeo production System team) tools and methods in order to improve the supply chain organization like Pull flow, Kanban, EDI, and Milk run.

Co-ordinate and manage the plant SIOP and MPS processes:

・Lead the plant's monthly SIOP and weekly MPS meetings.

・Lead SIOP and MPS processes at the plant level and identify internal and external bottlenecks.

・Improve continuously the SIOP and MPS processes. Ensure the respect of procedures and maintain them at the best level.

Ensure SIOP/MPS are realistic and consistent and manage the load of the plant:

・Manage bottlenecks issues by coordinating actions with customers and critical resources (suppliers, production).

・Ensure the plant's industrial objectives by optimizing resources and inventory levels.

・Follow up on the realization of the MPS and propose corrective actions connected with components availability.

・Define with the External flow analyst the inbound and outbound transportation plans.

Manage all demands for products from customers and the load of the plant with the customer survice team

・Coordinate customer logistics team to issue sales forecasts and analyze significant variations in customer needs, propose adapted actions

・Follow up delivery performance, daily shipments, and production priorities in co-ordination with the Production team and take corrective actions needed.

・Manage with the customer service team the availability of returnable containers.

Manage inventory:

・Cordinate the procurement team to reach the MPS service rate and inventory level required.

・Lead actions connected with stock reductions and follow-up inventory target realization.

・Lead Logistics/Purchasing meetings and follow-up related action plans.

・Propose logistics protocol with suppliers in co-operation with External flow analyst and Purchasing.

・Co-ordinate inventory management for components through inventory targets