Wednesday 24 April 2013

Cummins Inc.: Materials / Order Management Leader

Cummins Inc. is a $18 billion, Fortune 200 company and the world’s largest independent producer and distributor of diesel engines and related components. Our continued success globally is predicated on the capability and extent of our product range, our commitment to new technology and the quality of our people.
Globally
Cummins Inc., a global power leader, is a corporation of complementary business units that design, manufacture, distribute and service engines and related technologies, including fuel systems, controls, air handling, filtration, emission solutions and electrical power generation systems. Headquartered in Columbus, Indiana (USA), Cummins serves customers in approximately 190 countries and territories through a network of more than 500 Company-owned and independent distributor locations and approximately 5,200 dealer locations.
Africa
Regionally, Cummins Africa operates across eleven countries, employs in excess 1500 people and is a recognized segment leader in the Mining and Power Generation market segments.
Purpose of the position
· Lead the supply chain planning of all products (Cummins & non Cummins suppliers) in to Nigeria to facilitate the growth of the new PGBU plant. This includes OMCS, materials management, local purchasing and liaising with 3PL’s
· Accountable for the development of nominated key suppliers, establishing contracts for supply and processes to automate the day to day buying process for those suppliers in order to achieve consistency of process, and reducing TCO
· To transact all work operation within the Oracle R12 system, including all order releases, work updates and material booking activities. Move/load and unload materials for appropriate work areas.
Responsibilities:
· Lead, coach & mentor supply chain personnel to develop capabilities to manage the internal and external material flows of the business in line with Cummins standard procedures
· Design and implement processes and procedures to ensure compliance with Cummins standard operating procedures
· Evaluate and assist with AOP planning activities.
· Working with CWAL and CPG G-Drive customers to gain an understanding and document customer requirements within the organization and align OM coverage accordingly.
· Support development and training of CPGN account teams.
· Create, own & deploy cross-functional training plan to enable process flow changes within organization.
· Facilitate requirements between OM function and other functional areas (Materials, Scheduling, Global Logistics, etc) to drive cross-functional process and procedural improvements.
· Identify process improvement opportunities within the team; develop and implement.
· Remove roadblocks, inefficiencies in processing of new orders & change orders
· Lead customer problem resolution to ensure customer satisfaction.
· Receive customer enquiries on all order related issues and respond in a timely manner.
· Work with IT to ensure that systems meet our internal/external requirements to effectively conduct business and focus on improvements through data analysis.
· Management of a limited number of Customer accounts including receiving and processing customer orders within existing order entry systems and acknowledging customer orders within defined formats and time-scales.
· Confirm/Obtain customer information required by Production and Engineering.
· Provide ongoing leadership to our customers regarding order management processes and procedures.
· Ensure alignment with overall Global Supply Chain Transformation strategy.
· Travel to customer locations to develop relationships and work on improvement activities.
· Co-ordinate project meetings as and when required.
· Progress LOC and other financial tools that prevent shipment of orders
· Host and co-ordinate customer site visits.
· Accountable for On-time delivery of customer orders.
· Provide order-board status, carry-over and other Customer Service measures as necessary and provide relevant performance reports on a timely basis as required.
· Key in all completed operations from work-too sheets
· Run daily OBIEE reports/planners
· Investigate discrepancies in booking functions
· Manage works orders including material issuing
· Issue deviation reports to the relevant functional department
· Raise sub-contract orders and complete the same
· Complete MOs as required to 55/600
· Complete and input indirect hours and run reports
· Lead weekly / monthly planning process
· Maintain planning and plant measures and publish to the operations management team
· Investigate ‘goods in’ invoice queries and book in ‘goods in’
· Liaise with 3PL to ensure imported and local material is delivered to CPGN on time
· Provide leadership in the negotiation of contracts that reach mutually beneficial agreements creating win-win results on nominated key suppliers.
· Manage the supplier relationships to achieve desired business results on nominated key suppliers
· Lead commodity teams and work with the External Materials Flow (EMF) team to establish and achieve aggressive supplier improvement targets in TCO, quality, delivery, and inventory reduction on nominated key suppliers.
· Develop and maintain sourcing strategies to reduce supply chain costs.
· Provide leadership in developing key long-term suppliers to achieve continuous improvement in all key measures.
· Provide support for the EMF team in resolving strategic supplier issues.
· Accountable for implementing and maintaining terms and conditions of supplier agreements on nominated key suppliers.
· Implementation and supervising maintenance of supplier report cards.
· Liaise with other supply teams within Cummins to increase gross benefit
· Lead annual stock take.
· Assist and lead where necessary, continuous improvement programs across the business as defined in work plan
· Provide leadership in the selection and negotiations of sub-contracted activities in support of manufacturing and engineering.
· Provide leadership in cost reduction activities and achieve aggressive annual improvement targets (SMIP) as defined in work plan
· Lead or assist in planning and implementing market testing for the request for quotation (RFQ) as required.
· Work with the EMF team to ensure compliance with PPV within agreed targets
· Support ASM’s through VPI program stages.
· Work with SQI in accordance with departmental procedures on new supply chain implementation.
· Assist in the preparation of monthly management reports and measures as appropriate on supply related activities.
· Manage the validation process for new parts
Required Skill and Experience
· 3-5 years of materials / supply chain management
· The ability to lead others and to communicate cross-functionally is required.
· Must have good inter-personnel skills and ability to communicate to customers at the highest level.
· Good writing and oral presentation skills are required.
· Must be able to plan and be proactive in dealing with customer requests
· Must have basic understanding of computerized customer order management and MRP systems.
· Cycle counting process’s

 
Qualification
BS Degree in Purchasing / Supply Chain Management

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