Material Requirements Planning Analyst 1

About the Role

The Enhanced Production Manufacturing Center and assembly facility in Madison, AL is seeking a Material Requirements Planning Analyst 1 to join our team. This role provides world-class material resource planning and production support to Northrop Grumman programs and U.S. Government customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze manufacturing, enterprise resource planning, and other material requirements based on assembly demands, component replenishments, substitute parts or materials, production set ups, engineering changes, and enterprise supplies.
• Resolve schedule, material requirement, or business system problems with cross-functional and PPSC Team representatives.
• Generate part or material requisitions and initiate production and purchase change orders.
• Develop and facilitate the preparation, processing, scheduling, and material purchasing requisitions for timely purchase order processes to satisfy system demand requirements.
• Plan, schedule, and manage the efficient movement of material from receiving or the warehouse to production.
• Develop raw material requirements and scheduling requirements from engineering specifications and production schedules.
• Plan and manage material movement with purchasing, warehouse, and production.
• Create Material Masters in SAP to initiate RFQ’s and Purchasing of all parts for buy complete or Make In House Delivery Orders.
• Use MRP analysis tools to perform material resource planning based on demand-generated resource requirements, current stock, production need dates, vendor lead times, and material processing times to ensure timely material or service availability to support production operations.
• Analyze data, information, and documents in the SAP MRP module and create required purchase requisitions within the SAP system for end items, including simple PR Requisitions for NRE and tooling.
• Create text notes documented on requisitions to reflect terms and conditions required for orders from current RFQ proposals and Program Work Authorizations.
• Facilitate change effectivity notices (CEN) from design/Manufacturing Engineering to responsible Global Supply Chain procurement analysts to address suppliers or program RCI (Request for change or information).
• Create ACO (authorized change order) to GSC for any deviations from requisition to Purchase Order to address increased pricing or clarification to the PCD (planning configuration document) addressed on CEN.
• Support, accommodate, and prioritize MRP workload for all Post Production Support Center RFQs and Delivery Orders.
• Coordinate Return Material Authorizations (RMA) and Repair rework orders with GSC and vendors for the return, repair, and/or replacement of non-conforming resources.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• SAP
• SAP MRP module
• MRP analysis tools
• Microsoft Office

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 0 years’ experience; high school diploma and 7 years experience.
• Understanding of general manufacturing and purchasing work flows.
• 0-3 years of Material Resource planning experience.
• Ability to obtain DoD Security Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with 1 year’s experience; 0 years with Masters.
• Working knowledge of SAP.
• 1-3 years of SAP Material Resource Planning systems experience.
• Understanding of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning systems.