JOB DESCRIPTION
Supply Chain Analyst
What can you expect?
Adient (NYSE: ADNT) is a global leader in automotive seating. With 70,000+ employees in 30 countries, Adient operates more than 200 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide. We produce and deliver automotive seating for all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual foam, trim and metal components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. Our integrated, in-house skills allow us to take our products from research and design to engineering and manufacturing — and into millions of vehicles every year. For more information, visit www.adient.com.
The role of Supply Chain Analyst is to drive container centralization and monitor inventory flows across Adient EMEA. You'll support packaging process standardization, optimize transport networks between plants and suppliers, and contribute to cost and packaging efficiency. This role also supports program launches aligned with PLUS methodology and SCM strategy.
What will your responsibilities be?
- Identification, development, design of new routes & optimization of existing routes in Adient transport network
- Packaging loop calculation for multiple customer/supplier relations under consideration Adient rules and plants/supplier requirements
- Monitoring of available standard packaging within Adient EMEA (usage patterns, inventory levels)
- Align optimal network proposals with supervisor, affected plants, execution lead & provide network rules for self-management to plants
- Using Adient available tools for managing complicated packaging loops. Permanently develop adjustment proposals for changed network environment
- Stay in contact with network contributors, service providers & Adient central departments
- Provide best praxis solutions for recent supply chain challenges (network, packaging, logistic services)
- Create, implement and maintain ideas of supply chain improvements
- Support & monitor packaging x-change database on internet platform to reduce packaging invest
Which qualifications are we looking for in potential employees?
- Technical and/or commercial apprenticeship: transport engineering, traffic system engineering and logistics, industrial engineering
- Min. 3 years’ experience in supply chain, preferably in automotive Industry by company with more than 50.000 employees
- Basic understanding of Adient systems and processes – advantage.
- Broad based packaging & transport network knowledge, geographical knowledge
- Fundamental manufacturing/materials and logistics operations knowledge
- Good supply chain Solutions/Market/Evolutions and Adient plant knowledge
- Analytical thinking & process thinking
- Understanding from global dependencies
- Assertive, convincing in arguments
- English – fluent, German – preferable
Adient is committed to equal employment opportunity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. As a true global company, our leaders and employees come from various cultures across the world. Our diversity is a source of inspiration enabling us to achieve our goals and build an inclusive company culture.
We are looking forward to receiving your application including your salary expectations and your earliest availability date. If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact Dagmar Sováková on +421 257 271 126.
PRIMARY LOCATION
Bratislava Business CentreTop Skills
What We Do
Adient is a global leader in automotive seating. With approximately 77,000 employees in 32 countries, Adient operates 202 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide. We produce and deliver automotive seating for all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. Our integrated, in-house skills allow us to take our products from research and design to engineering and manufacturing — and into more than 19 million vehicles every year.
