Supply Planner

About the role

The Supply Planner position is a highly visible supply chain role that's charged with coordinating and optimizing the inventory planning and procurement cost across the supply chain network.

Responsibilities

• Ability to balance the sometimes-conflicting goals of inventory targets, target customer service levels, forecast accuracy, and safety stock requirements for the allocated portfolio of SKU’s for which they are assigned.
• Key liaison to resolve supply issues and ensures the efficient delivery of inventory, service and cost objectives.
• Identify ways to improve supply planning processes by applying current tools.
• Responsible for ensuring accuracy of all purchase order data to support the Sales, Operations & Transportation Teams.
• Maintain customer demand and regional performance objectives.
• Proactively use MRP’s and other tools to review inventory projections & supply-demand summaries to prevent potential shortages or excessive inventory and demurrage.
• Keep track of inventory levels and make suggestions on inventory parameters.
• Able to assess purchasing options, optimize loads via combining various products onto a single order, pre-order as needed to reduce costs. Works with product marketing management on overall supply direction.
• Review out of stock situations or shortage of supply issues and recommends mitigations. Uses exception reports to identify and resolve potential out of stock issues.
• Conducts business and performance reviews with key suppliers on an ad-hoc basis.
• Tracks and reconciles weekly/monthly metrics versus established targets.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Mathematics, Supply Chain/Operations, Finance or other related field preferred.
• Strong Excel skills required and experience with data manipulation - including graphs, pivots, vlookups, etc.
• Knowledge of integrated planning software highly desirable.
• Must possess very strong analytical skills and be detail oriented.
• Commitment to process improvement and ability to perform root cause analysis.
• SAP experience preferred.

Qualifications

This is a hybrid-based role that will report out of our Dublin, OH location.

Skills

• Excel proficiency
• Data manipulation skills (graphs, pivots, vlookups)
• Integrated planning software knowledge
• Analytical skills
• Process improvement focus
• SAP experience

Benefits

The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate’s relevant experience, education, training, certifications, qualifications, and work location. Available employee benefits include health, vision, dental coverage, along with industry-leading retirement and time off programs.

Pay

Competitive pay and benefits.

Schedule

This is a hybrid-based role.