Material Planner Internship

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This position reports to

Planning & Fulfillment Manager

Your role and responsibilities

As an intern you can contribute to cross-functional initiatives for optimizing customer on-time delivery, lead-time, inventory and forecast accuracy supported by lean tools whenever applicable and collaboration with the different stakeholders in the end-to-end Supply Chain. You will report to the Planning & Fulfillment Manager. The work model for the role is: #LI-Hybrid This role is contributing to the MV Switchgear Business Line, within the Distribution Solutions Division, Electrification Area in Dalmine. You will be mainly accountable for: • Monitoring suppliers' performances in terms of on-time delivery and implementing corrective actions if necessary. • Executing daily, plant-level Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) to create and manage production requirements to meet the production delivery schedules. • Monitoring schedule adherence, identifying key root causes for deviation, and taking follow-up improvement action. • Being responsible for stock profile and segmenting the portfolio of materials through an ABC/XYZ analysis, product lifecycle management and commercial policy, defining inventory policies according to this segmentation. • Collaborating with Buyers for obtaining the best possible supplier performance in terms of supplier on-time delivery, MOQ, quality, lead time, and flexibility. • Managing MRP (Materials Resource Planning) exception messages on a daily basis; supporting cycle counting and/or year-end inventory counting. • Expediting parts and managing quick ship requests, communicating and expediting material issues. • Supporting Planning & Fulfillment team in aligning material availability to business targets. • Supporting end-to-end planning of inventory including sales in excess of invoicing from purchase requisition to customer invoice. • Supporting internal customer service inquiries and organization in reaching inventory targets and ensuring adequate replenishment of inventory through purchase orders.

Qualifications for the role

• You are a student in Management Engineering or Mechanical Engineering;
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly on Microsoft Excel;
• Knowledge of SAP and data analysis tools (Power BI or similar) is considered a plus;
• You are creative, innovative and digitally smart;
• You have an ownership and problem solving attitude, and are result oriented;
• You have a teamwork attitude, good communication skills and courage which completes the profile.
• You are at ease communicating in Italian and English, both written and spoken

More about us

ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium-voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability™ enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets. We value people from different backgrounds. Apply today for your next career step within ABB and visit www.abb.com to learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #MyABBStory For further info: Davide Lippiello, Talent Partner