How do they match: Supply Chain Managers

  • Material Requirements Planning Manager
  • Materials Manager
  • Materials Planner

  • Confer with supply chain planners to forecast demand or create supply plans that ensure availability of materials or products.
  • Design or implement plant warehousing strategies for production materials or finished products.
  • Determine appropriate equipment and staffing levels to load, unload, move, or store materials.
  • Evaluate and select information or other technology solutions to improve tracking and reporting of materials or products distribution, storage, or inventory.
  • Forecast material costs or develop standard cost lists.
  • Identify opportunities to reuse or recycle materials to minimize consumption of new materials, minimize waste, or to convert wastes to by-products.
  • Identify or qualify new suppliers in collaboration with other departments, such as procurement, engineering, or quality assurance.
  • Locate or select biodegradable, non-toxic, or other environmentally friendly raw materials for manufacturing processes.
  • Manage activities related to strategic or tactical purchasing, material requirements planning, controlling inventory, warehousing, or receiving.
  • Participate in the coordination of engineering changes, product line extensions, or new product launches to ensure orderly and timely transitions in material or production flow.

  • Estimate cost or material requirements.
  • Evaluate quality of materials or products.