Sales & Supply Chain Scheduling Coordinator
Georgia Nut Company · Skokie, IL · 2 wk ago
AdministrativeContract
About the role
The Supply Chain Coordinator supports the weekly production schedule to meet customer demand and ensure sufficient material availability. This position requires constant and proactive communication with Scheduling, Purchasing, Distribution, Production, and Sales to meet internal and external customers' needs. It also involves scheduling production, minimizing expired and obsolete inventory, and providing regular updates to Sales, Operations, and Planning.
The role requires a thorough understanding of production processes, inventory movements, and interdepartmental process flows.
Responsibilities
- Schedule batch orders for designated production departments
- Assemble production batch orders on a weekly basis
- Create weekly production spreadsheets and update them daily for final yields, schedule changes, material shortages, last-minute allocations, cancellations, and other changes
- Allocate materials to batch orders as needed
- Schedule and close all monthly and yearly sanitation and preventative maintenance batch orders
- Provide weekly notifications to Production for general material and hold allocations
- Update Sales department with final yields on MTO orders
- Support Product Engineering in maintaining and modifying item setups, routes, and formulas in A/X and SharePoint
- Run gross requirements several times per week and initiate transfer orders in accordance with FEFO to ensure sufficient inventory supply at all Georgia Nut warehouses
- Communicate regularly with Purchasing and Transportation to expedite incoming POs and request new POs as needed
- Identify and remediate on-hand inventory discrepancies with the Warehouse and Inventory Control departments
- Perform other tasks as required to support planning, scheduling, purchasing, and distribution
Qualifications
- High School Diploma or GED
- Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Well-organized with high attention to detail
- Ability to successfully prioritize workload
- Strong math skills for working with percentages, proportions (ratios), and unit of measure conversions