Suppy Chain Planner, Cross Border - Cummins Inc

Job Title: Suppy Chain Planner, Cross Border - Cummins Inc

Job Description

• To plan and maintain daily supply chain operations for critical suppliers or customers in materials, production, inventory, logistics, customer service, demand management, or order fulfillment. Ensures internal and external customers’ expectations and requirements are met.
• Achieving and continuously improving customer service levels, and/or manage inventory levels and targets, and managing supply and demand within the Supply Chain.
• Ensures internal and external customers’ expectations and requirements are met.
• Manage the daily operational processes for a critical segment of the supply chain.
• Eliminate potential supply chain failures as part of the daily planning process.
• Champion preventive practices to eliminate expediting to supply chain leadership as appropriate to prevent problems.
• Lead cross functional stakeholders to develop and implement short and mid-term tactical improvements
• Complies with communication plans and processes to ensure stakeholders’ needs are met.
• Leverage common processes tools, and information systems
• Approve system strategies and advise on changes to planning systems parameters as required.
• Analyze and interpret KPIs to identify areas for improvement and action plans.
• Lead Six Sigma and functional process improvement teams.
• Liaise with functional stakeholders to mitigate mid-term supplier or customer constraints.
• Mentor and coach supply chain planners.
• Ensure common processes are being utilized and internal controls are in place

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Qualifications

Skills

• Customer focus – Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Ensures accountability – Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Drives results – Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Mode Selection – Evaluates and selects appropriate transportation mode and equipment type by lane through shipment volume analysis against business requirements to provide optimal shipping method (balance cost, quality and time).
• Carrier Management – Supports and evaluates carrier performance through consistent monitoring of on time pick up, transit time and on time delivery measures to ensure fulfillment by published schedule and rated cost.
• Optimizes work processes – Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Communicates effectively – Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Collaborates – Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.

Education, Licenses, Certifications

• BSc or B.A in applicable field and or applicable certifications relevant to West Africa.

Experience

• Intermediate level of relevant work experience in West Africa required in supply chain and logistics.
• Customs & Transportation knowledge of French African countries.
• French Speaking Mandatory (English Speaking preferable)

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Skills

• Customer focus – Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Ensures accountability – Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Drives results – Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Mode Selection – Evaluates and selects appropriate transportation mode and equipment type by lane through shipment volume analysis against business requirements to provide optimal shipping method (balance cost, quality and time).
• Carrier Management – Supports and evaluates carrier performance through consistent monitoring of on time pick up, transit time and on time delivery measures to ensure fulfillment by published schedule and rated cost.
• Optimizes work processes – Knowing the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Communicates effectively – Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Collaborates – Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.

Education, Licenses, Certifications

• BSc or B.A in applicable field and or applicable certifications relevant to West Africa.

Experience

• Intermediate level of relevant work experience in West Africa required in supply chain and logistics.
• Customs & Transportation knowledge of French African countries.
• French Speaking Mandatory (English Speaking preferable)