Semiconductor-Nanotechnology Manufacturing

Plan and monitor the movement and storage of materials and products in coordination with suppliers, internal systems, and customers.

Critical Work Functions

• 4.4.1 Supply Chain Logistics
• • Express promotion and selling strategies.
  • Identify and pursue prospective customers and appropriate customer groups.
  • Monitor customer preferences to determine focus of sales efforts and services that satisfy customer needs.
  • Emphasize and promote features in marketing or sales.
  • Assist in the selection of services based on the match between customer needs and product or service specifications.
  • Inform customers regarding service contracts, offered services, estimated cost, delivery of services, and any other information regarding the purchase of services.
  • Resolve customer complaints regarding sales or services promptly and to the satisfaction of the customer.
  • Manage purchasing and just-in-time materials flow, shipping and receiving, packaging and transportation.
  • Control inventory of materials and products.
  • Develop and maintain production/delivery schedules and supplier networks.

• 4.4.2 Automated material handling
• • Automated material handling and distributed systems
  • Integrated supply chain information technology

• 4.4.3 Awareness of global impacts
• • Global supply chain logistics life cycle
  • Intellectual property
  • Taxes and duties
  • Shipping, receiving, and freight
  • Customs and export control (legal aspects)

• 4.4.4 Detailed scheduling and planning
• • Techniques of inventory management
  • Detailed material planning

• 4.4.5 Executing operations
• • Procurement and external source of supply
  • Prioritizing and sequencing work
  • Executing plans and implementing controls
  • Evaluating performance of operations
  • Ergonomics
  • Sharing and collaboration across the supply chain

• 4.4.6 Managing inventory
• • Inventory forecasting
  • Ordering materials and supplies
  • Inventory monitoring and audits
  • Stock rotation requirements
  • Expediting

• 4.4.7 Packaging and distributing product
• • Packaging product
  • Labeling product – inventory tags and bar codes
  • Warehouse management systems
  • Transportation methods
  • Customs and export control

• 4.4.8 Production systems
• • Change orders, bills of material, work orders, etc.
  • Lead and cycle time

• 4.4.9 Resources planning
• • Demand management
  • Sales and operations planning
  • Master scheduling
  • Measuring business performance

• 4.4.10 Supply-chain management
• • Elements of the supply chain
  • Just-in-time/Lean manufacturing
  • Manufacturing resources planning
  • Collaborative, planning, forecasting, and replenishment
  • Vendor managed inventory systems
  • Centralized versus decentralized control
  • E-business and direct shipment
  • Cost of goods sold (COGS) real time
  • Value cost analysis

• 4.4.11 Workflow
• • Material handling
  • Plant facility and capacity
  • Production scheduling
  • Lot control
  • QA release