Production Planning Specialist

Conduct daily activities to support the receiving, scheduling, production, shipping, and billing involved in the final tractor assembly process, including M/TLB series and L series roll-on-roll-off (RORO). Provide customer service to our U.S. sales organization regarding product availability, delivery, and sales order maintenance. Coordinate activities with the Manufacturing Department, U.S. sales company, and 3rd party logistics companies to support daily assembly operations.

PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES: This position does the following in accordance with all applicable Federal, State and local laws/regulations and the company’s policies, procedures and guidelines:

• In some cases, all analysts will be trained in specific duties.

• Train in two business enterprise systems (Production Planning Module and EWM) to support operational processes required for tractor final assembly.
• Coordinate various receiving activities, including:

a) Physical receiving in of goods and processing receipts into EWM (not primary, but as back-up to the Receiving and Assembly Material Handling Departments).

b) Conducting audits of receiving documents and system reports to assure 100% match.

c) Coordinate the replacement of defective materials from MAIN, 960 and all other suppliers to the Assembly Line.

• Conduct order maintenance and billing transactions to assure accurate, timely billing of assembled unit shipments.

• The process involves download and processing of order databases, setting the daily line sequence, contacting U.S. sales company for credit release, and uploading the final schedule to the Production Planning Module.
• Issue stock transfers to the U.S. sales company (NADC), coordinate daily sequenced tire deliveries (Titan), and coordinate daily sequenced deliveries of tractors from the Port and Carrier Yards. Monitor all deliveries for timely receipt to assure on-time production and assembly completion (no backorders to customer).
• Perform annual physical inventory process, including counting, system input, and reconciling of variances.
• This includes daily auditing and supporting U.S. sales company internal auditors in their audit process throughout the year.
• Write procedures and work instructions as directed.
• Any special projects as assigned.

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