Material Planner Country/Region: US Location: Charleston, SC, US, 29418 Req ID 74915 | North Charleston, SC, United States WABCO Compressor Manufacturing Co **About the team:** The team isresponsiblefor ensuring seamless material capacity planning and logistics by creating forecasts, managing supplier relationships, and maintaining accurate materials databases. They focus on ensuring 100% material availability, managing order status updates, and addressing customer backlogs while overseeing supplier shipments, invoices, and inventory forecasts. Additionally, the team tracks supplier performance, escalates critical issues, and collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to ensure smooth operations. **Your responsibilities as a Material Planner:** + Create and calculate logistical forecast planning to ensure a smooth material capacity planning at supplier. + Maintain materials database, reviews safety stocks, rounding values, and minimum lot sizes. + Respond to customer service order manager about order status, changes, cancellations and/or customer backlogs. + Ensure 100% material availability and special priority setting on fast moving parts. + Manage accurate schedule line deliveries to suppliers. + Contact supplier to verify shipment details and communication schedule line deviation. + Examine shipping documents and create advanced shipping notices. + Approve supplier freight invoices and coordinate premium freight. + Utilize escalation process in case of critical vendor backlogs in cooperation with Sourcing and Purchasing Department. + Track, analyze, and forecast supplier fill rate, report data on regular basis. + Review inventory and storage costs and forecast demand. + Interact with local and global internal and external customers. **Your profile as a Material Planner:** + Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Business, Economics, or related field and/or 3+ years of related supply chain experience + Understanding of inventory control procedures + SAP and MRP experience + Exceptional attention to detail + Strong knowledge of materials practices and procedures, including shipping and receiving + Strong computer knowledge, specifically MS Office **Why you should choose ZF in North Charleston, SC:** + A supportive and collaborative team environment + Annual Incentive Plan + Paid Vacation + 401k Plan + Health Care Benefits + Paid Holidays + Tuition reimbursement for educational advancement + A strong diversity culture + Supportive Employee Groups and community outreach activities Be part of our ZF team as Material Planner and apply now! DIVERSITY COMMITMENT: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are more than just words for us. They are at the core of the ZF Way that propels our team members towards their utmost success. We strive to build and nurture a culture where inclusiveness is a natural reflex. We actively seek ways to remove barriers so that every member of ZF can rise to their full potential. We aim to embed this in our legacy through how we operate and build our products as we shape next generation mobility, safety, sustainability and social justice. With four generations across 118 nationalities in 41 countries, ZF combines a unique variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas. Together, we solve problems, drive innovation and shape next generation mobility. Our company is committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with us and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please contact us. Requests for reasonable accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. ZF is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law. Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer M/F/Disability/Veteran **What does DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) mean for ZF as a company?** At ZF, we continuously strive to build and maintain a culture where inclusiveness is lived and diversity is valued. We actively seek ways to remove barriers so that all our employees can rise to their full potential. We aim to embed this vision in our legacy through how we operate and build our products as we shape the future of mobility. Find out how we work at ZF: