Supply Planner

About the role

The Supply Planner position plays a key role in master production scheduling, overseeing finished goods, work-in-process inventory, excess stock, and obsolete inventory to ensure supply aligns with customer demand. Your expertise will be critical in maintaining strong partnerships with manufacturing operations and plant schedulers to optimize stock levels.

Responsibilities

• Create finished goods based on the Consensus Demand Plan, ensuring alignment with customer orders, forecasted demand, and inventory stocking requirements.
• Establish critical inventory parameters for Target & Safety Stock settings, factoring in supply lead time, warehouse capacities, and transportation constraints to maintain efficiency.
• Proactively identify potential material shortages against inventory plans and develop action items to mitigate risks, ensuring seamless supply chain operations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to ensure inventory management aligns with operational constraints and overall business strategy.
• Actively engage with demand management, manufacturing, quality, warehousing, and transportation teams to resolve finished goods issues and analyze consumption patterns.
• Marshal resources to address supply challenges, proactively following up on material shortage-related concerns to maintain smooth and efficient operations.
• Measure, analyze, and report key process metrics, ensuring adherence to assigned key performance indicators (KPI) to drive operational efficiency.
• Oversee long-term capacity status, manage weekly category KPI updates, track product shortages, and facilitate daily information flow among supply planning partners, maintaining seamless communication and strategic execution.
• Maintain high product availability and customer satisfaction by monitoring and optimizing Case Fill Rate %.
• Reduce the Distress to Sales Ratio by tracking and reducing excess inventory and waste.
• Manage Working Capital/Days on Hand Inventory (DOH) to maintain efficient stock levels and cash flow.
• Optimize Stock Transfer Order Utilization to ensure strategic inventory positioning to meet seasonal and fluctuating demand.
• Conduct Pre-build Monitoring for production and storage, ensuring strategic inventory positioning to meet seasonal and fluctuating demand.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited four-year college or university and 2+ years of relevant experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience, required.
• Work experience in a team-based environment within manufacturing or supply chain.
• Experience with SAP and its related supply chain applications.
• Proficiency using PC-base Technology (Microsoft Excel, Power Point, Word and Access).
• Strong technical skills around data management, analytics, data processing and problem solving.
• Well organized, with strong attention to details.
• Strong mathematical/statistical abilities.
• Hands on experience with modeling, analysis & simulation tools.
• Proven ability to build working business relationships.
• Strong interpersonal skills & hands on experience working with multiple partners to resolve exceptions and negotiate best alternatives in meeting service level goals.
• Able to provide data to support & explain reasoning for decisions.
• Works well under pressure with limited supervision and be able to meet deadlines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to perform in a command-and-control role and manage multiple priorities with competing demands.
• Able to work well with others in fast paced, dynamic environment.
• Able to be respectful, approachable and team oriented while building strong working relationships and a positive work environment.
• Up to 10% travel is required.

Qualifications

• APICS CPIM or CSCP certification, a plus.
• Experience with Advance Planning Systems (Logility/JDA/APO/Anaplan, etc.), preferred.

Skills

• Data management and analytics.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Collaboration and teamwork.
• Interpersonal and communication skills.
• Leadership and command-and-control roles.

Benefits

Smithfield Foods provides a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and more. Relocation package available.

Pay

The expected pay range for this position is $60,000 - $87,500 annually.

Schedule

No specific schedule is provided in the job posting.