Supply Chain Management (Corporate Logistics) | サプライチェーンマネジメント（コーポレートロジスティックス）

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Job details

Company overview

A major automotive parts manufacturer headquartered in Europe, this company is engaged in selling automobile intake systems.

Responsibilities

This position will be developed through two phases:
Main responsibilities:

• Phase 1 : Focus on Bottleneck and Escalation Management
  • Problem shooting for Plants & Customers on supply risk per request
  • Bottleneck Management together with plants, supplier, purchasing, sales, and engineer, if necessary, to avoid customer line stops
  • Escalation Management across BUs for the commodities regarding the issues of capacities, finances, quantities, quality, and general bottlenecks for the plants/suppliers located in the responsible areas
  • Regular Reporting to Regional CIAQ Head for bottleneck issues and other urgent cases
• Phase 2 – Focus on Continual Planning Optimization (including Supplier Audit, Supplier’s performance improvement, and Planning Optimization, etc)
  • Supplier Management and Optimization o Applying regional SCM strategy within the responsible areas regarding customer logistics requirement, supplier management, negotiation of agreements with suppliers and customers, continual improvement at logistics quality. etc
  • Planning and implementation of audits for supplier evaluation, incl. definition and tracking of improvement measures until supplier release
  • Development and continuous improvement of suppliers’ delivery quality including performance tracking, deviation analysis, and optimization, integrated continued low performer into bottleneck management
• Contribution to Regional Logistics Quality Assurance Applying local methods and best practices for supplier management, especially in the following areas:
  • Localize requirement of supplier audit, in collaboration with SQA
  • Supply Chain Disruption Response Transport disruptions, Accidents and so on
  • Apply the supplier scorecard methodology to the responsible areas.

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• University Bachelor degree or above
• Experience of centralized logistics and supplier management is strongly preferred
• Experience of logistics planning is strongly preferred (especially for sales & material)
• Experience and knowledge on manufacturing sector and SAP, especially on MM Module is strongly preferred
• Native / fluent Japanese and Business English language skills 

Preferred qualifications:

• Automotive experience is a big PLUS

Salary

6 - 7.3 million yen

Location

Tokyo