CrawlJobs Logo

Materials Planner

United States, Peachtree City 24.00 - 25.00 USD / Hour · Job Posted June 01, 2026
Apply Position
Job Link Share

Job Description

The Materials Planner / Buyer is responsible for the analysis, planning, and procurement of component parts needed to support service repair and manufacturing operations. This role focuses on forecasting, inventory management, supplier performance, purchase order administration, cost control, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure operational efficiency and continuity of supply.

Job Responsibility

  • Plan and procure materials based on forecasts, usage trends, and service schedules
  • Create, review, and manage purchase orders
  • Monitor delivery schedules, pricing, inventory levels, and part revisions
  • Support weekly customer and operational meetings by providing purchase order updates and action items
  • Prepare reports, charts, KPIs, and procurement-related documentation
  • Negotiate pricing, delivery schedules, and purchasing terms
  • Monitor supplier performance and delivery metrics
  • Resolve supplier issues, discrepancies, payment concerns, and delivery delays
  • Manage inbound logistics, receiving issues, and inventory-related concerns
  • Partner with suppliers to improve performance and support continuous improvement initiatives
  • Maintain inventory levels in accordance with budget and operational requirements
  • Analyze inventory discrepancies, obsolete materials, and scrap activity
  • Support inventory accuracy and reporting efforts
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve operational challenges
  • Provide backup support for other materials team members as needed

Requirements

  • Production or manufacturing experience required
  • Strong procurement, purchasing, and materials planning experience
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills required, including pivot tables, advanced formulas, and data analysis
  • Experience with ERP/MRP systems and procurement platforms
  • Strong supplier management and negotiation skills
  • Experience managing the full purchase order lifecycle
  • Ability to analyze forecasts, inventory levels, and usage trends
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities
  • Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Must reside in the Southwest Atlanta area

Nice to have

  • Associate degree preferred
  • equivalent experience will be considered

Looking for more opportunities?

Search for other job offers that match your skills and interests.

Similar Jobs for

Materials Planner

8 matching positions

Materials Planner

As a Materials Planner, your mission will be to ensure the continuous and effici...
Location
Location
Greece , Trikala
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
fagron.com Logo
Fagron
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Experience in Material Planning, Supply Chain, Procurement, Inventory Management, or similar areas is considered a plus, but not mandatory
  • Educational background in Supply Chain, Business Administration, Pharmacy, Chemistry, Engineering, Logistics, or related fields
  • Strong analytical and organizational skills
  • Good communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Comfortable working with systems, data, and planning tools (ERP/MRP knowledge is a plus)
  • Fluent English required.
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Raw Material Requirements Planning & Communication
  • Procurement Support & Issue Resolution
  • Master Data Management & Accuracy Oversight
  • Inventory Optimization & Control
  • Material Availability Monitoring & Risk Mitigation
Read More
Arrow Right

Materials Planner

Plan and pipeline inventory for low to medium complex customer demand—lower doll...
Location
Location
Malaysia , Penang
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
arrow.com Logo
Arrow Electronics
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Typically requires bachelor's degree with 2-4 years of related experience
  • Preferable Mandarin Speaking
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Plan and pipeline inventory for low to medium complex customer demand—lower dollar value and/or lower part count
  • Review backlog and shortage reports to assure uninterrupted supply of inventory. Tools would include backlog matching, shortage reports and the Arrow flex reports with minimum customer interaction
  • Prepare Arrow generated forecasts for e-compass. Upload and manage the exceptions generated from the e-compass processing
  • Maintain manual bonds to assure interrupted availability of inventory
What we offer
What we offer
  • Medical Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Year-end bonus
  • Performance Bonus
  • 5-Day Work Week
  • Growth Opportunities
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Materials planner

We have an exciting opportunity for a Materials Planner to join our UK Supply Te...
Location
Location
United Kingdom , Cardiff
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
finsburyfoods.co.uk Logo
Finsbury Food Group
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Proven experience in a materials planning or supply chain role, ideally within FMCG or food manufacturing
  • Strong understanding of MRP systems and ERP platforms (e.g., SAP, Microsoft Dynamics or equivalent)
  • Excellent communication and supplier management skills
  • Highly analytical, organised, and detail-oriented
  • Proactive problem-solver with the ability to adapt to changing priorities
  • Proficient in Excel and data analysis tools
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Ensuring the uninterrupted supply of raw materials and packaging to support our production plans, while maintaining optimal inventory levels
  • Creating and maintaining accurate material requirements plans (MRPs) based on production forecasts and actual demand
  • Making sure purchase orders are scheduled and released in line with production needs
  • Monitoring delivery schedules to ensure materials arrive on time, proactively resolving any issues that could impact production
  • Collaborating with procurement, warehouse, and finance teams to maintain optimal inventory levels
  • Resolving any discrepancies that arise
  • Being the link between suppliers and production, ensuring that materials are available when and where they’re needed to avoid downtime
  • Preparing insightful reports on material availability, usage, and forecast accuracy
  • Championing compliance with food safety, traceability, and quality standards such as BRC and HACCP
What we offer
What we offer
  • Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave
  • Enhanced Pension Scheme
  • Death in Service Benefit
  • Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
  • Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform
  • Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral)
  • Employee Recognition Awards
  • Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course)
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Materials Planner 4

This position is responsible for material availability, customer operation succe...
Location
Location
Korea (the Republic of) , Yongin
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
lamresearch.com Logo
Lam Research
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • BA/BS degree
  • > 7 years relevant experience in managing planning portfolio (> 10 years in work experience)
  • 3 years’ track record in leading and managing a team
  • Experience in dealing with difficult work partners and customers
  • Commands good oral and written English
  • MS Office intermediate
  • ERP familiarity
  • Knowledge of SAP system is an advantage
  • Possesses strong interpersonal, communications and influencing skills
  • Demonstrated independent work initiative, sound judgment, detailed data driven analysis, diplomacy, analytical capability and professional demeanor
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Responsible for material availability to re-supply and meet demand at a committed lead-time and without creating excess inventory
  • Responsible for Customer’s successful operation, with specific account-level responsibilities for service level
  • Accountable for the accurate integration of Field Service, Quality and Customer Service operations, as measured by customer satisfaction scorecards
  • May manage long-term programs and/or extended duration, complex projects to effect process improvements or specific inventory level changes
  • Regular customer visits to gather customer’s real voice
  • Work with external customers, internal sales and field service personnel to determine proper stocking levels, replenishment systems, issue and receipt procedures, required inventory control policies and procedures, management information system to support material availability control and distribution to the Field
  • Responsible for overseeing the inventory forecasting and management process, defining appropriate inventory levels, minimizing obsolete and off-spec material and reducing aging material
  • Manage internal Key Performance Indicators, including Emergency Service Level, On-Time Delivery, Inventory Turn and stock fill rate
  • Develop and enforce Spares planning processes and work flows to enable efficient and effective operations
  • Implements ERP planning parameter changes as determined by the established process of parameter review against demand and installed base
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Materials Planner 2

About Lam; The group you’ll be a part of; The impact you’ll make; What you’ll do...
Location
Location
Malaysia , Batu Kawan-Penang
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
lamresearch.com Logo
Lam Research
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Min 4 years of experience
  • Experience as a Customer/Regional Planner interacting with international Customers preferably in the APJ Region
  • Degree in the field of supply chain/business operations/equivalent
  • Strong skills in the areas of service parts/spares parts planning along with strong analytical, problem solving and system skills
  • Proficiency in SAP MM or worked in any ERP, MS Office Skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint)
  • Intermediate level in MS Excel
  • High energy, strong work ethic, adaptive, able to meet tight deadlines
  • Proven ability and skill set to analyze, document and improve business processes with sustained results
  • High level of customer interfacing skills, effective listener, professional and courteous
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to communicate cross-functionally across multiple geo locations
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Responsible for planning and monitoring the spares parts used in customer consignment/ regional depots and customers
  • From historical usage develop and maintain plan for every part. Use the plan for every part data to update and maintain in SPM for forecasting purposes
  • Partner with the regional planning team to understand the business requirements (demand forecast drivers) to determine proper stocking and replenishment level
  • Excess Inventory Management (Rebalancing, Part Transition, STO Cancellation, E&O analysis)
  • Develop and enforce business processes and workflows to enable efficient and effective operations
  • Review and React to Zero bin/low inventory levels – Part Shortage Management
  • Expedite Critical parts required by customers thru QBETs/QBHOTs interfacing with the Escalations team
  • New Tool deployments with exploding BOM Structure and loading new/adjust existing planning levels after financial analysis
  • Track and Monitor Regional KPIs for Depots/Critical Customers/Consignment Locations
  • Conduct Root Cause and Corrective Action analyses for unexpected, undesirable results and present them to management
Read More
Arrow Right

Materials Planner 2

About Lam; The group you’ll be a part of; The impact you’ll make; What you’ll do...
Location
Location
India , Bangalore
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
lamresearch.com Logo
Lam Research
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Min 4 years of experience
  • Experience as a Customer/Regional Planner interacting with international Customers preferably in the APJ Region
  • Degree in the field of supply chain/business operations/equivalent
  • Strong skills in the areas of service parts/spares parts planning along with strong analytical, problem solving and system skills
  • Proficiency in SAP MM or worked in any ERP, MS Office Skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint)
  • Intermediate level in MS Excel
  • High energy, strong work ethic, adaptive, able to meet tight deadlines
  • Proven ability and skill set to analyze, document and improve business processes with sustained results
  • High level of customer interfacing skills, effective listener, professional and courteous
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to communicate cross-functionally across multiple geo locations
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Responsible for planning and monitoring the spares parts used in customer consignment/ regional depots and customers
  • From historical usage develop and maintain plan for every part. Use the plan for every part data to update and maintain in SPM for forecasting purposes
  • Partner with the regional planning team to understand the business requirements (demand forecast drivers) to determine proper stocking and replenishment level
  • Excess Inventory Management (Rebalancing, Part Transition, STO Cancellation, E&O analysis)
  • Develop and enforce business processes and workflows to enable efficient and effective operations
  • Review and React to Zero bin/low inventory levels – Part Shortage Management
  • Expedite Critical parts required by customers thru QBETs/QBHOTs interfacing with the Escalations team
  • New Tool deployments with exploding BOM Structure and loading new/adjust existing planning levels after financial analysis
  • Track and Monitor Regional KPIs for Depots/Critical Customers/Consignment Locations
  • Conduct Root Cause and Corrective Action analyses for unexpected, undesirable results and present them to management
Read More
Arrow Right

Materials Planner 2

You will be part of the Regional Planning Team within Global Spares Operations, ...
Location
Location
India , Bangalore
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
lamresearch.com Logo
Lam Research
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Min 4 years of experience
  • Experience as a Customer/Regional Planner interacting with international Customers preferably in the APJ Region
  • Degree in the field of supply chain/business operations/equivalent
  • Strong skills in the areas of service parts/spares parts planning along with strong analytical, problem solving and system skills
  • Proficiency in SAP MM or worked in any ERP, MS Office Skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint)
  • Intermediate level in MS Excel
  • High energy, strong work ethic, adaptive, able to meet tight deadlines
  • Proven ability and skill set to analyze, document and improve business processes with sustained results
  • High level of customer interfacing skills, effective listener, professional and courteous
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to communicate cross-functionally across multiple geo locations
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Responsible for planning and monitoring the spares parts used in customer consignment/ regional depots and customers
  • From historical usage develop and maintain plan for every part. Use the plan for every part data to update and maintain in SPM for forecasting purposes
  • Partner with the regional planning team to understand the business requirements (demand forecast drivers) to determine proper stocking and replenishment level
  • Excess Inventory Management (Rebalancing, Part Transition, STO Cancellation, E&O analysis)
  • Develop and enforce business processes and workflows to enable efficient and effective operations
  • Review and React to Zero bin/low inventory levels – Part Shortage Management
  • Expedite Critical parts required by customers thru QBETs/QBHOTs interfacing with the Escalations team
  • New Tool deployments with exploding BOM Structure and loading new/adjust existing planning levels after financial analysis
  • Track and Monitor Regional KPIs for Depots/Critical Customers/Consignment Locations
  • Conduct Root Cause and Corrective Action analyses for unexpected, undesirable results and present them to management
Read More
Arrow Right

Staff Materials Planner

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation c...
Location
Location
United States , San Jose
Salary
Salary:
92000.00 - 138000.00 USD / Year
amd.com Logo
AMD
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Semiconductor Industry, Fab and/or Supply Chain Experience
  • Experience with Kinaxis RapidResponse
  • Experience with SAP system
  • Programming skills in PowerBI, PL/SQL is preferred
  • Bachelors or Masters degree in Operations Research, Statistics, Industrial Engineering, Business Management or Computer Science preferred
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Knowledge in statistical analysis, forecasting, inventory and production management theories and application
  • Strong systems and quantitative modeling background
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Driving production and delivery performance of global suppliers
  • Cross-functional work with the BU, engineering and other operations groups
  • Analysis of forecasts and yields to determine optimal wafer starts
  • Test and implementation of new models and systems used in wafer planning
  • Determining wafer needs to balance customer needs, product changes, yields and inventory
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right