Logistics planner Jobs in Wichita, KS

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Job Title : Logistics Agent, Aircraft-on-ground (AOG) Specialist

The AOG Specialist is responsible for planning and acquiring supplies, materials and equipment from internal and external suppliers. May include contracting, negotiating, schedule management and coordinating technical interface.

• Provide placement of internal and external orders for components, outside processing, subcontracting and attrition relative to requirements to ensure a continuous flow of materials and meet Material Requirements Planning (MRP) demand
• Harmonize, communicate, and resolve issues relating to internal and external suppliers not meeting schedule requirements, for example, capacity, scrap, component discrepancies, alternate methods and materials as well as schedule changes
• Monitor and communicate component shortages to expedite and secure supplier fulfillment of demand and update Operations on shortage status
• Perform administration of internal and external supplier contracts, for example, performance metrics, price escalation, order and delivery changes, invoice and receiving discrepancies, and quotations
• Maintain and adhere to master data information of internal and external suppliers, for example, price, lead times, and order policies
• Develop recommendations for parts or program change management process, for example, price, lead times, make-buy, and part number changes
• Initiate and coordinate with other departments such as Engineering, Methods, Quality Assurance, Operations and other Material Logistics functions to resolve problems concerning delivery, component discrepancies, and lead times with internal and external suppliers
• Post daily work plan, load work centers and post Modification notices and close orders
• Ensure inter-site coordination to harmonize schedule deliveries, change packages and address miscellaneous issues
• Participate in improvement projects related to the Demand to Supply process, including but not limited to, cost reductions, system modifications and data management
• Track status of material shipments including custom issues and waybills
• Manage post disposition activities of non-conforming assets to meet schedule
• Ensure documentation is compliant to internal and external policies and regulations, including but not limited to, FAI's (First Article Inspection), C of C's (Certification of Compliance), PO's (Purchase Order), clearance of discrepancies
• Provide solutions to a variety of technical / business related problems of basic scope and complexity

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