Production Planner

Key Responsibilities

• Performs the Make, Buy and / or Bill of Material (BOM) planning activities associated with Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) transactions.
• Maintains production systems integrity to drive inventory optimization to minimize cost.
• Expedites and optimizes material flow through the supply chain to meet customer requirements.
• Covers shop floor control on make parts, executes the plan, provides timely status, and either expedites or creates a work around plan to preserve schedule.
• Collaborates with supply chain stakeholders including Procurement and Operations management to determine appropriate time phased plan for procured parts and executes processes to ensure deliverables meet production schedule requirements.
• Collaborates with Engineering and Change Control Board to make the associated changes to the BOM.
• Manages inventory levels, schedules, and availability of selected items, either manufactured or purchased, to meet production schedules.
• Interacts with manufacturing personnel, the purchasing department, and supervisors on material status and production planning issues.
• Performs cost analysis to support customer quote requests.
• Maintains MRP forecasts, inventory, customer demand, production requirements, inventory transactions, and rejected material.
• Sets up, maintains, and adjusts Kanban programs according to MRP reports, ensuring appropriate inventory management practices and cost-effective operations.
• Creates and maintains MRP classification codes in addition to reviewing BOM accuracy to ensure correct component identification, ordering, and release.
• Generates initial demand for purchasing of parts and raw materials while providing WIP work orders directly to the production floor.
• Coordinates all WIP inventory efforts and reconciles post-inventory.
• Maintains ERP system parameters including material master data and performance criteria.
• Creates and maintains logistics support programs and identifies and resolves problems in the customer return system prior to implementation.
• Analyzes and escalates the requirements of the BOM, including preliminary specifications/documentation and required dates.
• Evaluates, approves, and executes ad hoc material transaction requests.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred or equivalent experience
• Strong data analysis and systems aptitude, including the ability to work with complex spreadsheets, CSV import files, and ERP master data
• Ability to understand relationships between data sets, including item masters, bills of material, routings, inventory records, purchase data, work orders, and MRP outputs
• Advanced Excel skills required, including lookups, pivot tables, data validation, structured tables, and reconciliation of large data sets
• Must be able to identify cause-and-effect relationships within ERP/MRP transactions and understand how data changes impact purchasing, inventory, production planning, and work order execution
• Oracle NetSuite experience required
• Excellent communication skills – written and verbal
• Able to prioritize projects and strong problem-solving skills