JOB DESCRIPTION:
- Involves the overall planning, implementation and optimization of activities and support required for the delivery of products and services to our business partners, from materials/service acquisition through shipment.
- Primary areas of responsibility include driving production order dating, scheduling, releasing to operations and pegging to shipments, supply chain related project work, and data analysis.
- A series of operations performed in planning, making and controlling the execution of customer requirements for assigned products.
- Maintains and controls the business strategies and system architectures to drive enterprise-wide solutions and create production plans (MPS) that are executable and driven to the plant with the highest accuracy via SAP.
Day to Day Responsibilities:
- Routinely report to management on status and performance for assigned products.
- Manage the master production schedule to drive materials for customer requirements and optimizing required production fluctuation and inventory levels.
- Coordinates demand recognition for new products in MRP for both new product introduction and product transfers between plants.
- Reviews, analyzes, and is accountable for compliance of delivery performance to the most critical and most strategic customer contract requirements by customer set.
- Coordinating plans and execution with Product Line Management (PLM), Plant Planners, Engineering and Plant Management
- Supports ongoing business team activities for assigned product line(s).
- Engages in materials coordination and capacity facilitation with divisional and plant procurement.
- Measure and compare actual production results against the production plan and forecast.
- Facilitate adjustments to ATP as required to reflect actual plant performance and realized production rates. Identify adjustments needed in resource allocations based on such changes.
- Support production planning/master scheduling activities, including order management, resource planning, delivery promising (ATP management), and production forecasting and reporting of actual manufacturing results vs. plan. Provide back up to certain planning functions.
- Serve as department liaison with the Production, Engineering, and Kaizen Departments.
- Work closely with production coordinators and team leaders to establish short- term and long-term expectations and execution of the production plan.
Required Education: BS in Supply Chain, Business or technical field.
Required Years and Area of Experience: 0 to 3 years of relevant experience.
Required Skills:
- Ability to comprehend, analyze, and solve complex problems
- Demonstrates Drive and Commitment
- Ability to change priorities and tasks as necessary
- Ability to work independently in a dynamic, business/manufacturing environment
- Computer Literate in MS Office.
Desired Skills:
- Project Management
- Understand aspects of inventory management
- SAP knowledge and experience
- Ability to prioritize and complete multiple tasks.
Soft Skills:
- Fluent in English
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Adaptable and flexible
- Able to work in a team environment.