- Is in charge of the inventory level of his Raw materials and components families :
- Follow up the MPS achievement and propose preventive actions regarding material availability to ensure MPS realisation.
- Is responsible for setting up proper raw materials and components inventory levels.
- Define and lead actions connected with inventory reductions with his components families.
- Measure the DPM for each supplier. Propose action plans to improve the service level.
- Follow up and report daily the inventory level of his raw material and components families.
- Make sure that the materials and components are available to meet the complete customer demand :
- Plan the raw materials and components requirement based upon Sales and Operations Plan and Master Production Schedules and anticipate potential impacts with suppliers and with production.
- Validate and send on a weekly basis forecasts to the suppliers
- Make sure that raw materials and components are available to meet customer demand




- Follow up daily the material arrivals according to firm orders and make sure suppliers ship parts on time according to firm orders.
- On a regular basis, communicate complete, accurate reliable information to the Supplier contacts. Adapt the chosen method of communication to the level of the Supplier contact. Adapt the frequency to the situation (preventative, curative, crisis).
- Identify blocking points and plan appropriate quick actions to solve them :
- Attend Logistics/Purchasing meetings and follow up related action plans.
- Support the implementation with the appropriate departments (APU, Logistics, Purchasing, VPS) tools and methods in order to improve the supply chain organisation like Pull flow, Kanban, EDI
- Define with the External flow analyst the inbound transportation plans.
- Support actively the inventory counting and propose actions to maintain accuracy of inventory in cooperation with the ERP and inventory control analyst.
- Alert sales in the event of a crisis

📌 Senior Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Valeo
📍 Chennai