Planner

Responsibilities

• Plan material daily as driven by customer requirements and inventory targets.
• Request purchased material daily as driven by material planning and expedite purchasing as needed.
• Schedule work orders daily as driven by material planning and in compliance with S&OP level-load cell run rates, use auto-release as appropriate.
• Assist with preparing shop packets.
• Ensure that all released work orders are material, capacity, and tooling supportable.
• Assess capacity daily/weekly to determine bottlenecks and recommend mitigating actions.
• Manage daily dispatch lists to ensure each work center has a valid schedule.
• Ensure that all inventory parameters are set correctly (i.e. safety stock, order quantity, lead time, ABC, and others).
• Interface with Customer Service and Estimating as needed to provide planning, scheduling, and date information.
• Absorb with monthly S&OP process.
• Absorb with the annual physical inventory.
• Provide support and feedback for maintaining accurate bills-of-material, routings, and work centers as needed.
• Periodically evaluate inventory for slow moving and obsolete items and recommend disposition.
• Periodically perform ABC inventory analysis.
• Serve as a technical resource to team members as needed.
• Maintain awareness of management techniques, software and other relevant technologies being developed in the marketplace.
• Maintain awareness of best practices regarding materials management relevant to company processes.

Qualifications

• Education: Associate Degree in Business Administration or related field, B.S. field preferred.
• Experience: 5 years related experience in manufacturing, supply chain, or related fields with emphasis on planning and scheduling.
• Deep knowledge of bills-of material, routings, work centers, material planning (MRP), scheduling, dispatch lists, capacity management, item master, inventory management, customer orders, purchase orders, work orders, and date management in a manufacturing environment.
• Deep knowledge of how the above are accomplished in an ERP system.
• Working knowledge of Sales and Operations Planning preferred.
• Certification: APICS certification (CPIM or CSCP) and/or ISM certification (CPSM) preferred.