[Hiring] Supply Planning & Forecasting Managers @Cummins

Role Description

Maintain integrity of the supply plan and take marketing corrective actions to ensure supply plan stability. Manage daily operations across functions to ensure a dependable supply chain and efficient demand management.

• Use knowledge of business, customers, markets, and products to efficiently challenge demand plan assumptions to improve the quality and robustness of the demand plan.
• Utilize experience with Master Supply Planning and Demand Disaggregation to balance supply and demand in order to achieve financial and service objectives.
• Stabilize the supply chain and optimize supply chain tensions to improve supply forecast accuracy.
• Create common supply chain processes and procedures by establishing collaborative business partner relationships.
• Lead continuous improvement projects that align with the organization’s Operating System and Functional Excellence direction.
• Leverage common processes, tools, and information systems using Data Management tools including Minitab.
• Support Corporate Supply Chain Management initiatives and lead the regional/global disaggregation and supply forecasting process to ensure global alignment.
• Consult with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Supply Chain Planning teams to facilitate the forecasting processes.
• Work with the Demand Control Leader to understand the implications of near order trends on availability.
• Approach daily problem solving and continuous improvement opportunities strategically and tactically to achieve performance targets through Cross Functional Project Management tools and techniques.
• Utilize Six Sigma tools including Voice of the Customer and Finite Element Analysis to develop appropriate new internal and external processes, projects, and employee involvement plans.
• Develop, understand, and improve necessary Key Performance Indicators.
• Assess gaps to the supply chain performance against the expectation of achieving target deliverables; interpret KPIs to understand end-customer impact.
• Extract, transform, analyze, interpret, and present planning data with the goal of mining useful information, suggesting conclusions, and supporting value-creating decision making.
• Manage, coach, and develop staff; work with employees to set goals in training and development, performance, and career planning.
• Control the life-cycle of all problems using knowledge of Problem Management to proactively prevent recurrence of incidents to minimize adverse impact on the organization.

Company Description

Cummins is an equal opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, sex, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity, or other status protected by law.