Supply Planner - Hatfield PA

Supply Planner - Hatfield PA

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This position leads the planning and monitoring of supply to efficiently meet customer demand for a group of products. The Supply Chain Planner is responsible for creating a production schedule that meets customer requirements while considering available resources such as equipment, raw materials, and staffing. The Supply Chain Planner manages the replenishment of all materials required to achieve the production plan. The Supply Chain Planner works proactively to identify risks and collaborates as required to ensure actions are in place to mitigate supply risks. An effective and efficient supply plan will consider the demand profile and supply chain variables to reliably achieve customer satisfaction, inventory, and freight goals.

Scope / Supervision and Interaction Position directly reports to the Materials Manager in Hollis, NH and is responsible for a defined group of products at the site. Key interactions occur with customer service, demand planning, operations, procurement, and suppliers.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions :

• Monitor demand signals to identify changes and assess their impact to materials replenishment strategies and production plans.
• Participate in the S&OP process to drive alignment on the supply plan required to achieve the demand plan.
• Identify any supply risks and recommend actions to mitigate.
• Drive the weekly Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE) process to monitor status against the agreed S&OP plan and make changes to the production and materials plan as needed.
• Provide feedback to customer service on any gaps.
• Align with Operations on gap closure actions.
• Create short term production schedule at item level considering constraints and monitor operations adherence to the plan.
• Develop mid-term production plan at product / cell level to identify possible capacity constraints and identify opportunities to level load.
• Manage all materials replenishment processes (Consignment, VMI, Kanban, MRP) in order to ensure materials availability.
• Create purchase orders per system recommendations.
• Monitor and follow up on past due releases directly with suppliers.
• Provide feedback to procurement on supplier performance.
• Monitor customer on time delivery, inventory, and expedited freight performance to plan.
• Identify improvement actions and drive implementation.
• Monitor supporting process metrics as appropriate.
• Monitor inventory positions against model to ensure optimum inventory levels to meet customer service goals.
• Recommend adjustments to inventory policy as needed.
• Understand and maintain all planning parameters, including the Plan for Every Part file (PFEP).