Supply Chain Planner

Job Category:

Supply Chain & Logistics

Job Family:

Supply Chain Planning

Job Description:

As a Supply Chain Planner this partner will assume various responsibilities which could include demand planning, item transitions and discontinuations, raw material replenishment and production planning.  This includes managing the following: demand requirements via market intelligence, product lifecycle management, raw material requirements via purchase order generation, trade-offs between inventory, production efficiencies and freight.

These processes will require cross functional work through the supply chain.

Developing and maintaining a good relationship with Plant, Sales, Suppliers, and Customer Service partners is essential.

What you’ll do:

Supply Chain Planning- Demand


* Integrate market intelligence from Sales, Customer Service, and Marketing into the forecasting system in a timely and accurate method


* Real time adjustment of the forecast so that at any given time the forecast reflects the current customer and market conditions


* Apply personal judgment based on business knowledge


* Accountable for forecast accuracy at the DFU level (item/ship-to location)


* Develop action plans to improve accuracy


* Manage new items/changed item forecasts for make-to-forecast items


* Represent Demand Planning on cross-functional teams


* Develop and publish key forecast accuracy metrics


* Analyze results to ensure continuous improvement


* Maintain forecast database hierarchy and forecast parameters

Supply Chain Planning – Raw Materials (Bulk/Packaging/Ingredients)    


* Execute appropriate raw material replenishment processes to generate purchase orders to ensure timely receipt of materials to obtain:


* High quality and service levels on the production lines


* Least cost delivered product


* Age of usage between the minimum and target age


* FIFO usage


* Optimal procurement cycle times (purchase order to receipt days)


* Optimize cheese and ingredient utilization based on formulation tilt (ingredient solver) modeling


* Least cost storage solutions


* Work cross functionally to improve and sustain the accuracy of quantity and timing of material requirements planning information (MRP) to minimize the working capital investment in raw material inventory.

This includes gaining working knowledge of the following processes:


* Demand Planning (JDA)


* Fulfillment Planning (JDA)


* Production Formulas (Oracle)


* Procurement Processes (Oracle)


* Receiving Processes (RMCS)


* Production Management (Oracle)


* Ingredient Planning Model (Ingredient Solver Model)   


* Develop and maintain processes to minimize and resolve invoice price variances (IPV’s) and invoice quantity variances (IQV’s) in a timely manner


* Drive system improvements to reduce the transactional time in the order/inventory management processes for raw ...