# Inventory Analyst

**Company**: Ford
**Location**: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Automotive

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## Description

The Industrial Material Inventory Analyst is responsible for optimizing industrial material inventory across plants while ensuring compliance with Ford's inventory management and financial guidelines.

Responsibilities:

- Ensure plants operate with optimal levels of inventory for machine spares and consumables with no risk to production.

- Assess demand/consumption trends and ensure procurement orders and in-plant stocks align with changing demand.

- Drive collaborative working between plants on optimized purchase and reuse of industrial material spares.

- Reduce industrial material inventory in all plants by achieving actuals in line with budget.

- Use new-age tools to drive process efficiencies and innovation.

- Review daily work chain for stock replenishment based on part usage, lead time, pricing, order on request, safety stock, pack quantity, minimum order quantity, etc.

- Review backorder requests and prioritize with respective teams.

- Conduct daily reviews of critical items and high-value items.

- Govern items and make changes as required.

- Request quotations from vendors/requestors for new parts and new programs.

- Follow up with suppliers on past-due orders and update requestors on shipment arrivals.

- Support plant-to-plant transfer requests.

- Provide shipment status to plants on all open orders.

- Constantly interact with plant shop floor managers to ensure material stock and orders align with requirements.

Qualifications:

- Graduate or equivalent technical degree preferred.

## Skills

### Required
- Excel
- Macro tools
- PEGA
- Alteryx
- R
- Python
- SQL

### Nice to have
- Technical degree

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