Fermoy, IE Supply Chain Graduate

Requisition ID: 112333-0

JOB TITLE:                          Supply Chain Graduate

DEPARTMENT:                  Materials

REPORTING TO:                Purchasing Manager

Individual Contributor or People Manager:  Individual Contributor

OBJECTIVES OF POSITION:

• This role will rotate between 4 functions in our Materials department (Inventory, Purchasing, Planning and Logistics).
• The purpose of this role is to undertake and participate in meeting the overall global supply chain and logistic objectives of Sanmina Corporation and the Plant by ensuring that a robust supply chain is in place with the vendor base.
• General administrative support to the Materials Team.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Logistics:

• They will document shipments to ensure that they are in compliance with customs rules and regulations.
• Coordinate with all internal departments to establish an efficient export and import schedule.
• Provide an efficient interface with freight forwarders and administer all freight logistics and provide optimal level of customer services and resolve all shipment issues.
• Perform all record keeping processes and maintain records of all entry.
• Ensure that products have been transported in a correct and timely fashion.
• Maintain a good flow of communication with shipper and freight forwarders.
• Perform administrative tasks such as filing, typing up reports and maintaining email correspondence.
• Perform audits on all import and export files on regular basis.
• Ensure all fright invoices are processed, monitored and approved through our invoice provider.
• Management of premium freight and recovery of same. Alignment to Corporate lanes /contracts.
• Duty management/avoidance through inward processing and management of this through revenue audits.
• Generate and submit Intrastat reports for ROS Online on a monthly basis.

Planning:

• Allocate kits where appropriate (using allocation rules-weekly).
• Review shortage and impacts on schedule-weekly.
• Liaise and co-ordinate supply activities with buyers.
• Interact with Team Leads/Customer Service on reschedule/missed shipments-daily.
• Issue Weekly Production Plan-rolling three weeks to Business unit members-weekly.
• Monitor and Control metrics relating to Production plan Performance-issue weekly.
• Review and highlight capacity/bottleneck impacts.
• Review and keep WIP figures in line with agreed levels.
• Generation and distribution of a determined suite of Inventory Management related reports.
• Review Excess/Obsolete on Shopfloor, along with Work Order Integrity.
• MRB Issues/attend CCB Meeting.

Purchasing

• Supporting the Plant Materials organisation in ensuring a confirmed material supply chain that meets our customer’s requirements that is in line with inventory policy of the Plant.
• Ensuring the timely execution of MRP requests. This will include: order placement, actioning all MRP requests on a weekly basis, escalation within vendor base when responses do match requirements, work within the plant parameters, maintenance of the information on the enterprise system that reflects accurate, lead-times, minimum order quantities, multiples, pricing-as supplied by the Commodity management and quotes teams, incoterms, Currency.
• Support the Regional and Global Commodity Management teams by:

• Ensuring that the Global and regional contracts are implemented accurately.
• Supplying to the Regional and global team commodity data to allow the regional and Global teams to create their TAM. (Total Available Market).
• Providing vendor performance data, as and when required.

Inventory:

• Key driver for Inventory reduction strategy.
• Responsible for achieving Quarterly Inventory Turns Goal.
• Review changes in demand for adverse Inventory impact.
• Work with purchasing team to ensure critical PO reschedules are achieved.
• Work with Shop Floor Control planners to ensure the MPS is achieved.
• Identification of process deficiencies and instigation of process improvements.
• Responsible for authorized scrap & disposition of E&O inventory to recognized partners and approved recyclers.
• Set and Meet Department Inventory KPI’s.
• Maintain Internal/External reporting templates and associated LOB analysis.
• Produce Daily /Weekly / Monthly Inventory status reports.
• Back up support to the other members of the teams.

Quality: 

• Assure ongoing compliance with quality and industry regulatory requirements.

Health & Safety:

• Ensure compliance with Health & Safety Legislation and Regulations.

MEASUREMENTS:

• Measurements will be tracked against plant metrics and MBOs tracked as per the annual appraisal process.

PERSONNEL SPECIFICATIONS

Qualifications and Experience:

• QQI Level 8 Degree in Supply Chain Business/Finance or related discipline is preferred.
• A graduate of the IIPMM or similar professional organization is preferred.
• High level of IT skills proficiency.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a team.
• Acute attention to detail.
• Team Player, self-driven.
• Capable of pulling information from a variety of sources both internal and external to Sanmina and be able to process and analyze this information and data.

Core Competencies:

• Must be able to report/communicate these analysis/conclusions in a concise and effective manner to immediate and senior management, both verbal and written.
• A graduate of the IIPMM or similar professional organization is preferred.
• Previous experience in a high volume manufacturing environment.
• Previous Administration experience.