Prin Supply Chain Coordinator

** Career Area:
** Supply Chain and Logistics
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* Job Description:

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** Role Definition
** Manages purchased material requirements, taking appropriate actions to ensure material availability when needed, with appropriate inventory levels required to support customer requirements and inventory administration.
** Responsibilities*
* • Establish and maintain material planning methods and safety stock strategies, understand and monitor delivery/response times, forecasting methods and the subcontracting process, in accordance with assigned products and services, complying with materials and demand planning guidelines. Analyze supply gaps and develop proactive solutions, sharing best practices of material planning execution with others supply chain coordinators.  
• Execution and monitoring of purchase orders according to the demand signals for the assigned products, starting from placing purchase orders until the delivery of the product, ensuring that the correct material is delivered to the right place and at the right time. Identifying process issues and proposing possible solutions, sharing best practices of purchase order execution with others supply chain coordinators.

• Monitor inventory levels and tools to disposition inactive, obsolete or excess inventory following materials and demand planning guidelines. Sharing best practices of inventory maintenance with other supply chain coordinators.  
• Monitor material shortages tools, adjusting the delivery schedule with suppliers as needed, according inventory availability and demand signals. Communicate shortages or risk of shortages to customer. Identify different options to mitigate risk of shortages, implement action plans to improve performance.
** Skill Descriptors
** Business Process Improvement:
Knowledge of business process improvement best practices and ability to use methods for identifying, evaluating, introducing and implementing more efficient approaches to performing business related activities.  Level: Working Knowledge   
• Gathers data for use in the analysis of business processes.  
• Illustrates problems, opportunities and methods for improving existing business processes.  
• Suggests ways to reduce variation and/or waste in processes.  
• Helps evaluate what factors should be addressed in the change program.  
• Participates in requirements analysis for process changes.

Analytical Thinking:
Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.  Level: Extensive Experience  
• Seeks discrepancies and inconsistencies in available information; explains variances.  
• Organizes and prioritizes the sequence of steps to be taken to remedy the situation.  
• Identifies many possible causes for a problem based on prior experience and current research.  
• Approaches a complex problem by breaking it down into its component parts.  
• Chooses among a diverse set of analytical tools according to the nature of the situation.  
• Quantifies the costs, benefits, risks, and chances for success before recommending a course of action.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking:
Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.  Level: Extensive Experience  
• Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.  
• Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.  
• Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.  
• Advises others in analyzing…