Contract: Inventory Planner/Analyst / Trinidad and Tobago

Inventory Planner/Analyst

Reports To:        Inventory Supervisor

Function:            Supply Chain – Logistics, Inventory

Location:            Trinidad & Tobago

Purpose:  

• The position is a key member of the Logistics Inventory team as a focal point delivering inventory services and guidance to the business.
• Contributes to the monitoring, analysis evaluation and management of inventory to support our operations and functions
• Ensure parts availability for the Operations by managing exceptions and expediting requests through the Tracker
• To ensure availability of inventory to support efficient, cost-effective supply to meet the forecast requirements of internal business partners to enable planned and emergent activities within agreed KPIs.

 

Core Accountabilities

• Ensures conformance with our Company’s Charter, the Governance Documents, Code of Conduct and relevant statutory obligations.
• Leads with an overriding commitment to health, safety, environment responsibility and sustainable development.
• Acts respectfully and fairly with all team members, embracing differences so that everyone feels cared for and included. Recognises and celebrates achievements and successes within the team.
• Strives to achieve 100% safety, 100% customer value and 0% waste.
• Management of exceptions, assessing parts availability for scheduled work and make recommendations in line with the inventory planning process
• Review of free text items, identify opportunities for transfers and ensure parts availability alignment with work orders
• Coordinates proactively and effectively to expedite delivery of materials when schedule changes cannot be accommodated
• Manages demand thru the release of purchase requisitions, seeks to utilize inventory from within the network by transferring stock when possible
• Applies relevant material classification and stocking strategies in order to optimize inventory levels.
• Coordination with Procurement for the sourcing of materials and identification of materials to be added to existing outline agreements
• Applies an understanding of end-to-end Supply Chain to enhance efficiency, drive optimization, and maximize value; strive to achieve 100% safety, 100% customer value and 0% waste
• Campaign Requirement and Transfer Analysis including financial impacts
• Coordination and Correspondence with Joint venture Partners, Principal Negotiators, and Finance
• Maintain stocking strategies and inventory rulesets
• Maintain min/max levels and safety stock
• Identify and address potential issues such as stock-outs and minimise waste
• Monitor and address MRP exceptions
• Address inventory enquiries from stakeholders
• Manage refurbishment of routable inventory items
• Process master data updates for new and existing materials and support phase out of obsolete materials
• Ensure capital spares are purchased and serialised through correct processes
• Ensure inventory compliance with Joint Venture requirements 
• Generate inventory reports and KPIs on monthly or ad-hoc basis as needed
• Identify and recommend master data cleansing, alignment and improvement
• Support slow moving inventory and obsolete inventory reduction and improvement programmes for inventory.
• Comply with and recommend improvements to processes and procedures.
• Comply with Risk Management protocols.

 

Qualifications

•           Associates Degree, or higher preferred, relevant to Supply Chain

Experience & Technical Competencies

•           3 or more years in a Supply Chain / Logistics Inventory environment

•           ERP system expertise, SAP Materials Management and Materials Master Data.

Languages:

•           English