MATERIAL CONTROL ANALYST – EASTERN CAPE Full Time

Brief Role Description

To ensure the sufficient and timeous supply of Quality CKD & Direct Purchase components to production, in the most economical manner to meet our customer demands as well as our Company’s objectives towards quality, costs and schedules

Tasks within this Role

• Controlling inventory namely, shortages, surplus, potential obsolescence and production run out.
• Ordering parts and determine best possible solution to part shortage problems.
• Managing Engineering Changes.
• Controlling the budget of key performance items i.e. airfreight costs, SV costs, road haulage costs, inventory value management and claims management.
• Analyzing daily critical parts report to identify potential production shortages.
• Initiating stock count requests against parts which have not been recently stock counted and/or where stock base appears incorrect.
• Analyzing packing data files to ensure that stock receipts are in accordance with CKD order volumes.
• Calculating stock balancing quantities and place SV stock replenishment orders with consideration of airfreight costs.
• Liaising and following up with expeditors to ensure that stock for Production arrives on time.
• Liaising with the Logistics service provider and Expediting Officer to expedite containers timeously.
• Identifying potential obsolete stock and initiate deviations through Product Engineering to exhaust surplus stock.
• Monitoring and controlling stock movement against run out ECR to minimize obsolescence.
• Ensure accurate and stable forecasting of volumes that will be released via the VDA on the day of transmission

Qualifications needed 

• National Diploma or Degree in Logistics/ Purchasing/Materials/Inventory Management

Experience needed 

• Minimum of 3 years Materials/Inventory related experience in the Automotive Industry
• 1-2 years’ SAP Systems experience, R3 production, controlled Warehousing environment
• Basic understanding of the logistics concept and production systems
• Computer literacy i.e. Microsoft Office Package (Excel advanced & PowerPoint advanced), Systems
• Strong communication skills
• Analytically minded and a systematic individual with tenacious ability to resolve Problems