Supply Planner - Chicago, United States - Infoservices LLc

Description

• In this role, you handle material SKU planning activities that include global inventory management and replenishment, production levels to plan for materials, look at the chain from upstream to downstream with both short and longterm planning strategies in mind.
• The role involves capacity planning, production scheduling, and collaboration with demand, deployment, customer service, and transportations teams to build an efficient supply network.
• You will work with manufacturing teams to develop a strategy production plan, develop it with the service line, then present it for internal approval and customer acceptance.
• Your role will function as an analyst of existing technical and domain specialists and bring value through welladapted planning practices and solution driving problemsolving.
• Be encouraged to establish inventory strategies to deliver service goals while ensuring the capacity plans are developed to support the client forecast.
• You will be accountable for understanding the supply chain and demand planning business drivers, the key interpersonal structure of the operations team, and drive performance improvement as you handle capacity planning and various logistics projects.

• Responsible for maintaining production schedules and capacity plan to ensure ontime delivery, cost objective and avoid material shortage
• Maintain welldefined working relationships and communications with manufacturing and key suppliers to confirm scheduling and capacity analysis
• Responsible for inventory management, inventory location replenishment, SKU planning, and risk assessment, and mitigation planning
• Initiate and lead supply planning discussion during capacityconstrained periods.
• Interact with demand planning and operations teams to balance the supply network
• Build planning processes for project improvements
• Support new product introduction in conjunction with sales
• Responsible for critical metric objectives waste management, inventory weeks of supply, and case fill rate
• Lead inventory variances (Quarterly and yearly)
• Complete special projects and assignments as requested

• Demonstrate an understanding of supply chain cycle, Manufacturing, organization structures, and performance measures
• Demonstrates problemsolving skills and working under timelines; multitasking abilities; exceptionbased management capability
• Ability to balance priorities across multiple internal and external partners
• Ability to interact and build relations with senior management and key partners
• Superb analytical and problemsolving skills
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment

• APICS affiliation and/or certification
• SAP, OMP or other ERP/APS software experience
• Effective interpersonal and verbal/oral skills
• Selfstarter with independent work ethic and react quickly to priorities.

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift