Materials Planner

Position Overview

Support and optimize materials management and production planning by managing inventory, maintaining accurate SAP data, coordinating supply chain activities, and helping to align production schedules with customer demand. This role ensures the efficient flow of materials and information across the supply chain, helps to drive continuous improvement initiatives, and meet business objectives related to cost, quality, service levels, and regulatory compliance.

Fujifilm, celebrating 90 years of innovation in healthcare, graphic arts, optical devices, and high technology products in 2024, leverages proprietary technologies to enhance culture, science, industry, health, and environmental protection. Our corporate culture promotes openness, fairness, and clarity.

With over 50 years of expertise and a global team of 600 professionals, we provide full-service inkjet ink development and manufacturing. Our facilities in the UK, USA, and India support projects from small to large scales.

If you're ready to "think ink," FUJIFILM Imaging Colorants is the place for you! As part of Fujifilm's global Ink Solutions Group, we develop state-of-the-art aqueous dyes, pigment dispersions, and innovative inks for digital printing applications like packaging, commercial printing, and displays. We're driven by creativity and a dedication to quality, and we're looking for passionate problem-solvers to join the team.

We believe in investing in our people, offering a collaborative culture and a flexible environment to help you thrive. If you're ready to roll up your sleeves and help create solutions that make an impact, let's make a splash together!

Our manufacturing facility is in New Castle, Delaware, a lively town with rich history, open parks, museums, and a vibrant community that offers recreation and culture at every turn.

Fujifilm is globally headquartered in Tokyo with over 70,000 employees across four key business segments of healthcare, electronics, business innovation, and imaging. We are guided and united by our Group Purpose of "giving our world more smiles." Visit:

Inventory Accuracy:
Maintain inventory accuracy of 98% or higher through effective cycle counts and reconciliation processes.

Material Availability:
Ensure 99%+ availability of critical raw materials and components to avoid production delays or stoppages.

Cost Reduction:
Identify and implement continuous improvement initiatives that reduce materials carrying costs and minimize obsolete or slow-moving inventory to meet KPI and DOI/CCC targets

SAP Data Integrity:
Maintain up-to-date and accurate SAP master data with zero critical errors impacting production or planning workflows including new product setups.

Compliance:
Maintain 100% compliance to ISO
9001 and ISO
14001 standards in materials management.

Stakeholder

Collaboration:

Foster strong cross-functional collaboration, reflected in positive feedback from Sales, Customer Service, Procurement, and Production teams; promptly escalation and help resolve issues.

• Prepare and present department reports that provide insights into current and forecasted inventory status, identify supply risks, and assess capacity requirements.
• Collaborate with Planning and Customer Service to align materials management with customer demand forecast
• Support the Supply Chain Manager in developing and delivering KPI and business reporting; report and highlight deviations and areas for improvement against agreed performance measures.
• Assist in planning and supporting coordinating new product introductions (NPI) and supplier transitions.