Production expediter vs materials planner

Differences between production expediter and materials planner duties and responsibilities

Production expediter example responsibilities.

• Flight line expediter ensures maintenance accomplishment and sortie production by managing, controlling and directing allocate resources and personnel.
• Company is a custom molder with medical molding in a clean room facility in an ISO certify environment.
• Collaborate with internal and virtual teams on the development and ongoing maintenance of desktop procedures to ensure ISO compliance.
• Maintain and develop positive business relationships with a customer's personnel and involve in or directly relevant to a logistics activity.
• Evaluate engineering BOM demand and respond to issues relate to the product build network.
• Resolve several recurring material ordering issues resulting in improve JIT productivity and schedule attainment.

Materials planner example responsibilities.

• Develop and implement purchasing and contract management, policies and procedures and manage ISO documents and improvements.
• Determine material and component requirements base on the MRP system and ensure availability to support production schedules.
• Monitor MRP forecasts, inventory, customer demand, production requirements, inventory transactions and reject material.
• Create and maintain MRP classification codes in addition to reviewing BOM accuracy to ensure correct component identification, ordering and release.
• Maintain and setup supplier pull systems (KANBAN).
• Key team member in planning, training, implementation, and support of a new ERP system.
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