Parts Supply Graduate
Toyota
- Diest, Vlaams Brabant
- Vast
- Voltijds
The Diest facility itself receives parts from over 700 different suppliers (from Japan to local suppliers) managing over 250,000 part numbers and
150 trucks per day in a dedicated 100,000m2 facility. It’s 2 outbound logistics roles covers; providing direct overnight supply to
600 Toyota dealers in local region, and supporting the 13 European Regional Distribution Centres to ensure a consistent high level of Just In Time service to all National Marketing & Sales Companies and Toyota dealers within Europe and our final customers beyond.Your responsibilities
- Responsible for the procurement and inventory control of parts and accessories sourced from local suppliers.
- Analyze stock and service levels. Initiate necessary improvement actions to meet our customers’ service expectation in line with targets for key KPI’s:
- Follow up allocation Service Rate to Toyota customers
- Solve backorders to Toyota customers
- Respond to customer complaints in a professional way
- Improve supplier performance. Create & follow up actions plans with supplier to cover any gap to target, using the TPS (Toyota Production System) philosophy and Toyota problem solving approach:
- Create/map/review & improve processes
- Understand abnormalities caused by supplier in our warehouse. Visit supplier to understand rootcause, to find countermeasures, to improve process to avoid recurrence, to support in creation of standards.
- Ensure availability of parts to European Markets through regional locations and beyond to the end customer, for both current and future models of Toyota and Lexus vehicles.
- Master in supply chain/logistics/procurement/related discipline such as economics, engineering graduates are also welcome to apply.
- Genuinely interested in the automotive industry & supply chain management.
- Attention to detail and enjoys working in an active supply environment.
- Outgoing proactive personality with excellent teamwork skills with customer mind-set.
- Very good numeric and MS office skills including Power BI
- Some business travel necessary to both Brussels Head Office and European supplier’s hence driving license is required.
- Fluent in English as business language is necessary, Dutch is a plus.
- Belgium - Diest: Toyota Parts Center Europe
- An 18-months training program (on top of the daily job)
- On the job training
- Classroom training (Toyota Way, Toyota Production System…)
- Experiential training (5-6 weeks Line training at an European Manufacturing Company…)
- Evolution towards the “Specialist” grade after graduation