About the job

Sitec have an interesting contract role in Filton, Bristol for a Supply Officer (procurement).

Accountabilities

The Supply Officer, as the process operator of Supply External Products and Services process, will be responsible for:

• Monitoring the delivery of the right product/service, at the right time, in the right quantity, to a customer in accordance with customer needs.

Delivered through:
Appropriate logistic and ordering solutions,
Presenting a face in daily operations, assuring a single voice to suppliers.
Continuous improvement activities through lean principles and driven by risk management and anticipation of issues

• Applies (or respects) the Logistic Conditions signed with the supplier
• Monitors and improves 1st tier Supplier relationship
• Manages his/her supplier portfolio
• Secure deliveries for New Product Introduction.
• Support quality in the resolution of administrative quality issues

Main Activities

New Product Introduction

• Participate in the New Product Introduction due to a product modification or a new program introduction or Transfer of Work (ToW).

Forecast/Call up / Order and VMI (Vender Management Inventory) Management

• Entry and maintenance of Logistic Conditions ordering data, in the Clients Information System.
• Drive the ordering master data and parameters excellence under his/her responsibility and ensure their availability, for those who are not under his/her responsibility (Accounting/Purchasing/Engineering), in Information System tools and based on the negotiated contract
• Define and maintain supply related contractual data, (e.g. maxmin levels for VMI parts, delivery lead time,..) in the frame of standard policies and contractual requirements.
• Analyse MRP and Supply External Product exception messages
• Manage forecasts sent to the suppliers (Long, Medium and Short term forecast in the Hub, VMI forecasts)
• Manage purchase orders,
• Manage D1 collaboration process and performance level (for VMI), initiate proactive actions.
• Manage extended enterprise where supply product activities are subcontracted (performance and delivery follow up)
• Manage reordering tasks after rejection, scraps/damages and collaborate in the secondary flow
• Followup and troubleshooting for deliveries, Goods receipt, Technical/Administrative quality notice and payments.
• Manage stock at vendor for free issue product.

Customer protection

• Participate in reviews following overall process and in accordance with Client specificities.
• Ensure the product qualification prerequisites are in line before launching the ordering
• As part of the NonConforming item management process, ensure the involvement of the supplier to solve the issue.
• Initiate the escalation process, in the case of unresolved issues or recurring and persistent risks, to his team leader following overall process standards.
• Manage and process the missing parts and late deliveries: early warning to the customer and hierarchy, risk management, follow up deliveries and instigate mitigation actions
• Plan and monitor supplier actions directly on the aircraft (i.e. Outlocated works) if applicable
• Follow up outstanding work (procured products).
• Incoming goods followup for shortages.

Stock optimisation

• Monitor inventory levels and stock turns based on defined targets and ABC/XYZ Analysis
• Define the logistic solution and ordering solutions
• Optimise ordering parameters (safety stock/safety time, batch size, reorder point) in line with influencing factors (delivery performance D1, quality performance R1, economic order quantity, demand fluctuation)
• Monitor Nonmovers/Slow movers/ Dead stock
• Key player on Scrap/Sell/transfer stock

Continuous Improvement

• Work with Procurement, Planning, Distribute, Supplier and Client for Optimisation rules
• Perform supply chain monitoring through process performance measures and KPIs (Ordering measures, Missing parts, D1, Stock KPIs, VMI Level of Service)
• Perform root cause analysis (such as PPS/Q6) and monitor supplier problem solving activities.
• Feedback on supplier performance in daily operation
• Participate to supplier performance reviews/provide performance feedback to suppliers

Outputs

• Procurement plan (forecast)
• On time Purchase Order placement.
• Achieve collaboration with suppliers according to targets.
• Guarantee that on time delivery targets are achieved based on agreed dates with suppliers
• Guarantee that deliveries are achieved based on the required quality level with suppliers

The jobholder contributes to an improvement of :

o Delivery rate performances (D1, LoS) above given targets
o Missing parts KPIs
o Quality performance (for quality issues leading to late deliveries)
o Structural improvements plan

Respect inventory levels and stock coverage objectives

This vacancy is being advertised by Sitec.

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