Planner - Plant 81

Shaw Industries•Dalton, GA

About The Position

The Planner III is responsible for executing the S&OP Demand Plan provided to them through Demand Management. This role will ensure that the SSIP/SSIS schedule is executed at the facility level to meet customer needs.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED
Computer Knowledge and working with databases
Must be able to sit or stand intermittently for an 8-hour shift
Accept work assignments that could require additional training both formal and on the job, travel to other northwest Georgia locations and/or collaboration with other business partners.
Keep company information on equipment and materials confidential
Good communication skills in both written and oral form
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Nice To Haves

2+ years in Production Planning, Customer Service or similar experiences within a manufacturing facility preferred.
Demand Management/OMP Planning tools
Tableau
Working knowledge of Microsoft 365 (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
Proficiency in using AI tools

Responsibilities

Monitor Inventory and Service positions of plant products, take necessary actions to control Inventory and provide the best possible product service.
Maintain effective communication flow among division level planning, plant level planning, plant manufacturing, and customer service areas.
Coordinate tufting process to improve overall plant efficiencies
Based on backorder demand, sales activity, shop order performance, and manufacturing capacities, establish daily tufting schedules
Plan and schedule both predyed and natural yarn, including multiple threadup styles.
Disposition yarn small lots and UPA’s through backwinding, beaming, or sale yarn
Work closely with R&D to expedite XR’S TPR’s MTRs in a timely manner.
Work with business partners to resolve any issues including but not limited spec errors, off quality, and paperwork discrepancies
Monitor daily tufting production on TMS.
Create Manufacturing and Tufting orders on Demand Management using MOGS and TOGS
Make any necessary changes needed to shop orders on Shopflex.
Coordinate and request yarn as needed from warehouses to meet tufting requirements on SREQ or through Microsoft Outlook.
Monitor yarn requests from other plants and release yarn as needed on Shop Flex
Comply with SMS and/or standard operating procedures
Produce and distribute the daily Tufting Schedule from Shopflex/OMP.
Schedule NSPs for PreDyed and Natural yarns
Set up merge orders and update merge order tracking spreadsheet
Set up shipping requests for yarn shipments and roll shipments
Set up shipments for yarn going to outside vendors for backwinding
Distribute and maintain Tufting priorities when Manager II is absent
Understand and maintain key production planning reports
Any other duties assigned by the manager