Planning Analyst

Responsibilities

• Implementation of improved planning and scheduling systems within a newly established AFL business unit in a manufacturing job shop.
• Oversee a portion of the scheduling and planning process to ensure that the published line schedules are an accurate representation of the current state of the operation and its customer commitments.
• Closely monitor shop floor performance to the production schedule each day and throughout the month.
• Communicate schedule upsets and areas of focus.
• Work with manufacturing to make schedule adjustments and recovery plans to minimize customer impact.
• Manage forecast capacity reservations to stay within their schedule window to meet a sales commitment to a customer.
• Cooky with customer change and expedite requests to meet customer needs.
• Manage the finished goods inventory replenishment process to ensure designated items are available when ordered and inventory thresholds are maintained.
• Utilize and continue development of scheduling software to proactively identify and communicate bottlenecks caused by overloaded resources, machine constraints, raw material deliveries, or other issues.
• Work closely with the commercial sales team to align capacity with customer needs including close communication on lead times.
• Generate inputs and calculate results for the monthly sales and operations planning.

Qualifications

• Higher education preferred but equivalent work experience will be considered
• 2-4 years of manufacturing experience
• Production scheduling and/or planning experience
• Held positions in production scheduling in a lean, discrete, fast-paced manufacturing environment with relatively short lead times
• Practical understanding of inventory management including finished goods and stock replenishment methods, cycle counting, accuracy controls, and schedule inputs
• Experience with Oracle R12 order management, inventory, and manufacturing related
• Strong computer skills with a focus in Excel and ability to manipulate large data sets to obtain desired information