Demand Planner

The Orafol Group•Ellabell, GA

29d

About The Position

This position will plan the factory to meet customer and inventory requirements, with added focus on efficiency. This includes monthly demand planning with 3-month visibility, monthly production scheduling, and raw material planning with metrics associated to: plant efficiency, inventory targets, scheduling attainment and customer delivery.

Requirements

Associate or Bachelor's Degree preferred in Supply Chain Management
Strong written and verbal communication skills required.
Must have a positive "can do" attitude
Ability to work with little to no supervision, multi-task and meet deadlines
Demonstrated ability to lead by example
Must have Strong analytical skills and very detail oriented

Nice To Haves

Preferred experience in manufacturing as scheduler / planner in supply chain organization.
Preferred experience with ERP systems with ability to manage S&OP process.
Preferred experience in capacity planning, demand planning and inventory management.
Proved Efficient in Excel an any scheduling software.

Responsibilities

Review all Orders on a daily basis.
Utilize orders, forecast and sales history to create 3-month demand plan based on customer requirements, inventory targets, safety stock targets, production lot size and raw material MOQ's.
Develop monthly schedule for all lines in production and converting. Schedule based on optimized production wheel, along with customer priority. Measure and report weekly actual vs. scheduled.
Manage weekly planning meeting to align resources, PM's, raw materials and customer priorities.
Create and maintain capacity planning based on product mix and line utilization.
Analyzes production specifications and plant capacity data and performs mathematical calculations to determine manufacturing processes.
Create and conduct S&OP meetings monthly.
Work directly with supervisors to align resources daily.
Work directly with maintenance to manage PM compliance and adjust schedule based on reliability.
Provide finished goods availability commitments to customer service as needed and work directly with sales and warehouse to set production priorities.
Manage backorders based on metrics to optimize efficiency and meet customer requirements. Set back order target to align with sales and finance.
Review and report monthly inventory with specific targets set for each category to align with turn ratio metrics provided by Finance. Work with Finance as needed to align.
Develop and maintain tools and processes to achieve all of the above.
Work with Purchasing and Process to schedule new and current raw materials, packaging supplies and resolving quality issues.
Participate and support projects and process improvements in team environment.
Follows prescribed safety and quality policies and regulations
Performs other duties as assigned