Planning Engineer
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This Position reports to:
Project, Planning & Fulfilment Manager
Your role and responsibilities
In this role, you will have the opportunity to support the development of the planning and fulfillment-related processes, skills, and tools. Each day, you will support performance improvement, including customer on-time delivery and lead time.You will also showcase your expertise by ensuring adherence to inventory targets and supply plan optimization.
The work model for the role is: #LI_Onsite
This role is contributing to the Motion business for Traction division based in Vadodara, India:
You will be mainly accountable for:
- Maintaining the right inventory levels, optimizing them according to the company’s targets while ensuring high customer service level.
- Strengthen planning and coordination to ensure a smoother and more efficient production flow. Better production scheduling, optimized resource allocation, and improved coordination between procurement, manufacturing, and dispatch functions.
- Sets inventory parameters, inventory targets, and ensure adequate replenishment of inventory through purchase orders
- Supporting and maintaining inventory management processes for finished/semi-finished goods and/or raw materials in line with company guidelines.
- Performing standard and ad hoc detailed analyses of planning and fulfillment metrics, including Days Inventory on Hand (DIH), on-time delivery, lead time, forecast accuracy, and resource utilization.
- Identifying key root causes for non-performance and drives improvement initiatives across businesses.
- 3 to 6 years of experience in planning domain from any manufacturing industry.
- Full time engineering in Electrical or Mechanical.
- Establishes and shares best practices for operations planning, inventory management, and resource management.
- Compiles and shares weekly/monthly reports with business leaders on planning and fulfillment and inventory performance.
- Ensures integrity and compliance with ABB values and ethics in all activities.
More about us
ABB Traction Division is a recognized leader in onboard propulsion technologies that drive innovation in rail, bus, and industrial vehicle electrification. A comprehensive range of high-performance and full lifecycle managed propulsion, auxiliary and energy storage solutions help improve energy efficiency and contribute to making transportation more sustainable.
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