Operation Material Planner

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At our core, Western Digital is a company of problem solvers. People achieve extraordinary things given the right technology. For decades, we've been doing just that—our technology helped people put a man on the moon and capture the first-ever picture of a black hole.

We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, HDDs, and platforms for business, creative professionals, and consumers alike under our Western Digital, WD, WD_BLACK, and SanDisk Professional brands.

We are a key partner to some of the largest and highest-growth organizations in the world. From enabling systems to make cities safer and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world's biggest companies and hyperscale cloud providers, to meeting the massive and ever-growing data storage needs of the AI era, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

Today's exceptional challenges require your unique skills. Together, we can build the future of data storage.

Job Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain material requirements plans based on production forecasts, customer orders, and inventory targets
• Monitor and maintain optimal inventory levels and coordinate replenishment to prevent stockouts while optimizing working capital
• Analyze material usage trends and collaborate with production control and process engineering to improve forecast accuracy
• Create and release purchase requisitions according to lead times and production schedules
• Coordinate with suppliers and internal stakeholders to ensure timely material availability and ensuring on-time delivery of materials and components
• Generate and analyze material requirement forecasts based on production plans
• Track and report material-related metrics and KPIs
• Participate in supply chain and material planning improvement and optimization initiatives
• Identify opportunities and support cost reduction and process improvement efforts through efficient material planning
• Identify and resolve material shortages through expediting, substitutions, or production schedule adjustments
• Collaborate with cross-functional team including manufacturing, procurement, finance, development, quality and logistics teams
• Maintain accurate material master data in enterprise systems
• Responsible for ISO, BCMS, SOX compliance.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, Operations, Business, or related field
• 2-4 years of material planning experience in manufacturing environment
• Proficiency in SAP and Microsoft Office Suite
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with inventory management and material planning systems

Technical Skills:

• MRP/ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, etc.)
• Advanced Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, data analysis)
• Data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau)
• Inventory management software
• Statistical forecasting techniques

Additional Information

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