Material Controller
Responsibilities:
- Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Send out weekly and biweekly forecasts and releases to suppliers based on SAP demand. This incorporates manual transmission of releases, EDI transmission with certain Suppliers and through Tenneco's Supplier Network Collaboration (SNC) Portal
- Call in component stock in accordance with production plan from suppliers.
- Report any short supply or potential short supply to Supply Chain Manager and Master Production Scheduler.
- Follow up and escalate any overdue orders on a daily basis.
- Ensure that all changes are communicated to all suppliers timeously.
- Manage inbound shipment notifications on SAP, and re-align/reschedule shipments where necessary. Liaise with Freight forwarders regarding collections and deliverys from foreign suppliers. Reconcile all outstanding orders prior to subsequent releases.
- Manage engineering changes and stock run outs.
- Continuously explore options to reduce component obsolescence.
- Update supplier rating monthly and supply purchasing with the score for each supplier.
- Manage importation files and ensure timorous submission to Supply Chain Manager for approval in line with agreed SOPs from freight forwarders. (Import controllers)
- Strong SAP Material Control experience.
- Shipping Experience.
- MS Excel experience necessary.
- Communications skills essential







