JOB SUMMARY

The Supplier P&IC Planner utilizes acquired knowledge of their assigned suppliers, analytical skills, and critical thinking to guide the suppliers’ production schedule, inventory strategy, and material procurement plans. The Supplier P&IC Planner monitors the production schedules and delivery performance of their suppliers, working cross-functionally with internal stakeholders to achieve strong on-time delivery performance, mitigate the risk of inventory issues in Ashley’s warehouses, and to achieve successful new product launches and promotions.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Warehousing capacity & Factory production capacity reservation:

• Understand Factory facility & Product category.
• Monthly update Supplier capacity on Ashley system.
• Monitoring Supplier’s Inventory, stock-in and stock-out q’ty change for overall inventory management.
• Build & Maintain the Safety Stock levels of finished goods for priority SKUs.
• Competitor analysis: be aware of all competitor’s product category, Strategy, production conflict.

Monitor Supplier’s production schedule, Materials delivery, coordinate with Supplier on expedite / defer request to meet Ashley’s demand:

• Holding Weekly Production Schedule Meeting with Suppliers to find out the risk of production cutting delay and work out the solution.
• Ensure the Supplier’s production schedule is up to date on Ashley system.
• Understand the material lead-time from order date to receiver, Track the Supplier’s material stock vs Future forecast consumption.
• Adjust Production schedule to align with actual Customer demand (expedite / defer)
• Tracking Supplier’s worker number and working hours.
• Follow up third party subcontract production schedule (Whitewood, Fabric, PU…)
• Tracking closely Replacement part (RP) firmed order and pushing hard Supplier to ship as deadline given by Ashley, review RP weekly penalty and airfreight follow up.
• Review & analyst Supplier’s shipment performance metric.
• Escalate the issue to direct manager to get involved in time.

Documentation & Booking:

• Weekly review / remind Supplier shipping documents, regulatory compliance documents submission, track and solve payment issue.
• Follow up with Logistic team to release booking to Supplier in right time (ETD) & right place (Warehouse destination).
• Defer & cancel or swap booking as needed.

Set up training sessions for new Supplier and provide training for current Supplier periodically.

Education

• Prefer background related to "Supply Chain Management"

Experience

• At least 2 yrs working experience as similar position such as: Production Planning / Materials Purchasing department / Merchansider / Demand Planning / Supply chain planning...

Skills and Abilities

• Good at English communication skills (4 skills). Additional Chinese speaking is advantage.
• Proficient in MS office and other data analyst tool: Power BI / Python / SQL...

Working Conditions

• Factories, warehouses, offices

• Degree: College
• Age: Unlimited
• Job type : Permanent
• Salary: Competitive