Material Planner Internship

**Material Planner Internship**:
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**This position reports to**:
Planning & Fulfillment Manager

**Your role and responsibilities**:
As an intern you can contribute to cross-functional initiatives for optimizing customer on-time delivery, lead-time, inventory and forecast accuracy supported by lean tools whenever applicable and collaboration with the different stakeholders in the end-to-end Supply Chain. You will report to the Planning & Fulfillment Manager. The work model for the role is: #LI-Hybrid This role is contributing to the MV Switchgear Business Line, within the Distribution Solutions Division, Electrification Area in Dalmine. You will be mainly accountable for: - Monitoring suppliers’ performances in terms of on-time delivery and implementing corrective actions if necessary. - Executing daily, plant-level Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) to create and manage production requirements to meet the production delivery schedules. - Monitoring schedule adherence, identifying key root causes for deviation, and taking follow-up improvement action. - Being responsible for stock profile and segmenting the portfolio of materials through an ABC/XYZ analysis, product lifecycle management and commercial policy, defining inventory policies according to this segmentation. - Collaborating with Buyers for obtaining the best possible supplier performance in terms of supplier on-time delivery, MOQ, quality, lead time, and flexibility. - Managing MRP (Materials Resource Planning) exception messages on a daily basis; supporting cycle counting and/or year-end inventory counting. - Expediting parts and managing quick ship requests, communicating and expediting material issues. - Supporting Planning & Fulfillment team in aligning material availability to business targets. - Supporting end-to-end planning of inventory including sales in excess of invoicing from purchase requisition to customer invoice. - Supporting internal customer service inquiries and organization in reaching inventory targets and ensuring adequate replenishment of inventory through purchase orders.

**Qualifications for the role**:

- You are a student in Management Engineering or Mechanical Engineering;
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly on Microsoft Excel;
- Knowledge of SAP and data analysis tools (Power BI or similar) is considered a plus;
- You are creative, innovative and digitally smart;
- You have an ownership and problem solving attitude, and are result oriented;
- You have a teamwork attitude, good communication skills and courage which completes the profile.
- You are at ease communicating in Italian and English, both written and spoken

**More about us**:
ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium-voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air