Supervisor, Supply Strategic Support

Supervisor, Supply Strategic Support

The Supervisor, Supply Strategic Support (Strategic Planning) will support the entire Supply team and Mobis leadership with clear strategic direction and decision making on systems and processes to ensure parts availability to support OE service parts requirements. This person will make recommendations on process and systems settings or systems improvements to ensure attainment of Key Performance Indicators (Fill Rate, Back Order lines, and Inventory Months of Supply).

This person will lead a small team that includes super user roles that will be responsible for global system settings and parameters that drive demand forecasts, supply replenishment and all inbound scheduling. This person will also be responsible for leading the team to develop and improve standard operating procedures (SOPs), team performance monitoring, training, executive level communication/reporting, and supporting ad-hoc requests/ special projects.

Systems, data integrity, and process effectiveness are extremely important. This role is responsible for making recommendations in these areas that have a direct impact on cash (inventory investment), expenses (freight, warehousing), income (parts sales), PDC productivity and customer service (Fill Rate, Back Order lines)

2. MAJOR RESPONSIBILITY

Priority Major Responsibility %

1st Responsible for the strategic development and tactical execution of the MPA procurement plan. Lead the team in developing, analyzing, and maintaining the strategic, demand, and procurement plan using sales and supplier metrics in support of strategic business objective 30%

2nd Responsible for the monthly demand planning process which includes building forecasts, making recommendations, and incorporating historical and market intelligence data into the current forecast 30%

3rd

Utilize relationship-building expertise to oversee carriers and PDC staff to ensure a consistent flow of material from holding facilities into the PDC. The flow of material must be aligned and meet corporate KPIs (i.e customer service levels, cost reduction initiatives, and throughput) 30%

4th Develop, review, document, and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs). Collaborate with Supply Team leadership on auditing adherence to SOP’s. 5%

5th Generate KPI reports to ensure effective communication of performance against objectives for internal customers, external customers, and executive management 5%

3. PERSONALLY PERFORMED DUTIES – Dependent upon department assignment

• Monitor parts supply inventory levels through order placement to support sales to dealers and minimize cost of premium freight to meet corporate fill rate and MOS objectives
• Monitor orders and work closely with Supply department to avoid any unnecessary orders
• Create/Run queries in Data Warehouse (DW) based on requirements specified by management
• Periodically check Data Warehouse for data integrity, and work with systems to correct any issues
• Recommend changes for order management as required supporting customer needs and MPA purchase targets
• Monitor current forecasting and inventory management processes and implement any necessary changes to improve accuracy and efficiency, with the goal of common, integrated processes to support OEs
• Review and recommend changes to the Part Master to ensure that correct supply levels, supersession codes, and part control codes are maintained and accurate
• Review affiliate excess sales lists and make purchase recommendations based on forecasted demand. Provide affiliates with MPA excess inventory to decrease obsolete inventory across the network
• Monitor KPIs and provide direction to meet objectives
• Generate daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual KPI reports related to inbound processing for management
• Develop and administer KPI tracking for inventory deployment targets, forecast accuracy targets, and inbound scheduling metrics
• Provide expert level analysis of process or system issues impacting KPI achievements
• Monitor seasonal ordering up/down strategies to ensure proper inventory within the network