Job Summary

The Industrial Material Inventory Analyst is responsible for optimizing industrial material inventory across plants while ensuring compliance with Ford's inventory management and financial guidelines. The role serves as a key link between plant operations, engineering, purchasing, finance, and MPL teams to drive inventory efficiency, governance, and cost control. This is an end-to-end role in industrial material space.

Key Deliverables

- Ensure Plants operate with optimal level of Inventory for Machine spares Consumables with NIL risk to production
- Assess Demand/Consumption trends and ensure procurement orders and In-plant stocks are in line with changing demand
- Drive for collaborative working between plants on optimized Purchase reuse of IM Spares
- Drive reduction in Industrial Material Inventory in all Plants by achieve actuals in line with Budget
- Use New Age tools to drive process efficiencies Innovation
- Ordering Controls Review daily work chain for stock replenishment based on part usage, lead time, pricing, order on request, safety stock, pack qty, Minimum order quantity, etc.
- Review Back Order request RQ Mailbox on daily basis prioritize with respective teams
- Daily review of Critical Items and High-Value Items. Ensure the variance or reduction in stock is clarified with Plant teams for replenishment
- Govern the items; make the changes as per the requirement from Plant like Delete W/U (Where Used), Master Catalog Control changes, Part Status Changes, etc.
- Request quotation from Vendors/requestors for recent parts/new programs. Place initial orders to fulfill safety stock requirements




- Follow up with supplier on past due orders; amend Promise Date in line with supplier response. Update requestors on shipment arrivals and contact purchasing to expedite purchase orders / RFQs / Deliveries. Escalate and seek support on potential delays and enable compliance to plan
- Support Plant-to-Plant Transfer Requests
- Provide shipment status to plants on all open orders; amend the procurement requests based on changing demand
- Constantly interact with plant shop floor managers to get the pulse of material requirements and ensure material stock and orders in pipeline are aligned to requirement
- Efficiencies: Work with plants to scrap / sell unused parts to third party / sell to alternate Ford plants to drive reduction in inventory and save space
- Coordinate between Plants Purchasing to drive common source procurement, thereby reducing procurement costs and inventory
- Deliver inventory actuals in line with budget, and support with any efficiencies that may be tasked
- System Improvements: Develop Excel Macro tools that track and monitor Industrial Material consumption/ demand trends and suggest procurement strategies that enables plants to operate Just in time
- Use New age tools (PEGA, Alteryx, R, Python, SQL) to simplify processes and drive improvements/innovation through predictive approach
- Governance
- Report out: Ensure monthly governance of all inventory input variables and report out on key deliverables
- This will be a North America Time Zone work profile (Night Shift).
- Industrial material here refers to non-production material. This includes all machine spares, cutting tools, hand tools, electrical components, power tools, coolants, gloves, abrasives, fuels, other consumables facility spares.

📌 Inventory Analyst (Chennai)
🏢 Ford Business Solutions
📍 Chennai