Job Description

• Support Customer demand shortage through critical path reviews
  
• Support Sales and Operations Planning activities with affiliate and program team
  
• Support Balance out planning and coordination
  
• Ensure timely response to affiliate communications
  
• When necessary, aid with carlines other than their own
  
• Work on special projects or assignments as needed
  
• Primary window to manufacturing and the customer(s) on all product delivery related issues
  
• Support data collection, analysis, and corrective actions implemented for team metrics
  
• Support the development and implementation of effective, efficient, and common processes, procedures, and methodologies
  
• Participate in program activities toward issue resolution (i.e., root cause analysis, preventive and corrective actions development, and verification that corrective actions are effective)
  
• Part and Inventory Management:
  
• Report potential obsolescence as required
  
• Complete finished goods part setup in procurement system
  
• Ensure customer requirements are received, analyzed and processed as expected from all sources including customer systems
  
• Monitor the arrival and decide prioritization of inbound shipments with transportation department
  
• Coordinate expedited orders with transportation and manufacturing affiliates as necessary
  
• Determine cost responsibility of extraordinary costs and submit appropriate back up to business unit management as well as business unit extraordinary costs specialists if applicable
  
• Complete appropriate S/R (shipping release) to each affiliate weekly or as required
  
• Responsible to manage inventory on-hand volumes to minimize obsolescence as it relates to Program Model Year Balance Out, engineering change or service requirement
  
• Ensure extraordinary expense tracking matrix are updated and maintained as required (i.e. Air Chart, etc.)
  
• Program and Affiliate Support:
  
• Represent PCD in functional group and business unit meetings and projects when needed
  
• Represent PCD during affiliate balance out trips when needed
  
• Communicate efficiently and timely with customer
  
• Provide commitment timing and / or detailed support plans for delivery when required, including Root Cause analysis and / or other containment actions and documentation required by business unit and/or customer
  
• Support customer Launch, Shortage, Prototype PAT, Supplier Readiness and High-Impact supplier meetings when required
  
• Communicate transportation requirements such as delivery points, airfreight, expedites, hand carries, charters, etc. and associated costs in support of customer deliverables
  
• Provide customer schedule and delivery information, including specific requirements (if any) to the distribution center(s)
  
• Issue Fabrication authorization to manufacturing according to the build and delivery requirements for each Prototype and / or Pre-production build phase as required
  
• Monitor and track status of Prototype / Pre-production builds at manufacturing through each build phase to insure customer deliverables are met
  
• Work with appropriate program management and engineering to:
  
• Coordinate engineering change timing
  
• Review rework options when needed
  
• Monitor affiliate delivery performance
  
• Complete plant loads when required
  
• Monitor YNA delivery performance to the customer
  
• Review existing process and / or tools, identify gaps, and implement corrective actions and “best practices”
  
• Coordinate with other functions such as Warehouse, Transportation and IT in order to improve processes including recommendations of system updates and changes in business operating procedures
  
• Apply advanced knowledge of supply-chain management methodology
  
• Warehousing, Affiliate capacity planning, Finished Goods / Component transit times and Manufacturing / Warehouse / Tooling Transfers
  
• Evaluate economic impacts of supply-chain management:  freight packages, cost recovery, extraordinary expense