WD is looking for a self-motivated individual to join our fast-paced Platforms Products operations organization. As an OEM Planner, you will be responsible for coordinating and planning detailed material procurement activity for production bill-of-materials items that are critical to meeting customer contract requirements.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Receive weekly Material Resource Planning output from our contract manufacturer's Procurement team. Complete an analysis against Western Digital Production Forecast on the coverage per the OEM Contract Terms.
- Publish weekly reporting on Inventory Flexibility per the OEM contract terms metrics. Provide analysis on consumption and holdings/ Inventory turns and aging.
- Participate in cross-functional meetings for Change Management to understand the impact to change and possible Excess and Obsolescence risk.
- Perform Waterfall analysis on supply of Customer Unique or Customer managed parts.
- Publish Monthly Excess and Obsolescence reporting against Western Digital Production Forecast.
- Support Procurement with Flexibility analysis when incurring Purchase Price Variance charges to Customer (Example: Additional upside demand or Non-Cancellable, Non-Refundable charges due to changes in demand forecast).
- Coordinate with procurement and manufacturing operations to ensure the continuity of supply.
- OEM Customer Communications: (Example: Receive and respond to queries on Supply chain management and Notify Customer of any significant changes to Unique parts definition or Lead times).
- Attend weekly Core Team meetings as supply-chain representative.