# 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 and consumption trends to align procurement orders and in-plant stocks 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.

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

- Review daily work chains for stock replenishment based on part usage, lead time, pricing, and other factors.

- Prioritize backorder requests and review critical and high-value items daily.

- Govern item changes, such as delete where used, master catalog control changes, and part status changes.

- Request quotations from vendors and place initial orders to fulfill safety stock requirements.

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

- Support plant-to-plant transfer requests and 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.

- Work with plants to scrap or sell unused parts to drive inventory reduction and save space.

- Coordinate between plants and purchasing to drive common source procurement and support reduction in procurement costs.

- Develop Excel macro tools to track and monitor industrial material consumption and suggest procurement strategies.

- Use new-age tools like PEGA, Alteryx, R, Python, and SQL to simplify processes and drive improvements.

## Qualifications

No specific qualifications are mentioned.

## Skills

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

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