Material Planner - The Toro Company

What Will You Do?

In order to grow and build a successful career with The Toro Company as a Materials Planner, you will be responsible for:

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• Develops material requirements using planned order status reports from the system output or from advanced information. 

• Prepares requisition orders specifying quantity and scheduled delivery dates utilizing the desired inventory level policies in determining quantities and delivery dates.

• Analyzes reports of over ordered parts and initiates adjustments to purchase orders in keeping with established order policies. 

• Adjusts any purchase orders affected by engineering drawing and bill of material changes when notified by Engineering.

• Daily systematic adjustments consisting of order exception messages co-existing with the Ariba project.

• Coordinates the transportation activities for incoming parts direct to the Windom facilities while keeping overall costs within optimum cost and time parameters.

• Coordinates information and delivery on new production parts for prototype and new product builds. 

• Supports the plant’s JIT program with analysis of usage and suitability of potential vendors and parts for inclusion in the program.

• Coordinates the activities required remedying parts shortages caused by tooling delays, equipment deficiencies, supplier capacity constraints, engineering problems and/or other related issues.  Works directly with Quality Control when quality problems arise. 

• Interacts with shop floor supervisors on parts emergencies and outages. 

• Acts as primary contact person and maintains open communication with suppliers of production parts. 

• Complete inventory analysis and SAP adjustments for part issues including to request cycle counts as needed and obtaining required approval signatures for compliance. 

• May perform other duties as assigned by manager.

What Do You Need?

To be considered for this role, an individual should meet the following minimal requirements:​

• High school diploma or GED required. Two year post high school education from a vocational technical school or college in business administration, accounting or related field or a minimum of 2 years direct experience in inventory control, materials management or traffic operations preferred.

• Proficient in SAP and Microsoft Excel preferred

• Independent worker and problem solving preferred