Senior Supply Network Planner (Round Rock, TX)

Entegris•Round Rock, TX

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Entegris is seeking a Senior Supply Network Planner in Round Rock, Texas, to support complex global manufacturing lines for its Advanced Material Deposition Group. The role serves as a point of contact for Business Unit leaders and supports end-to-end supply planning. It performs global supply and inventory planning activities aligned with business strategy, with a focus on improving performance and productivity. The planner establishes global stocking and planning strategies, manages rough-cut capacity planning, coordinates supply-versus-demand and allocation decisions, and oversees inventory optimization. The role also coordinates MRP settings, mitigates excess, obsolete, and MRB inventory, serves as a subject matter expert for SAP and end-to-end supply chain processes, and supports global On-Time Shipment performance initiatives. The position requires manufacturing supply and inventory planning experience, knowledge of MRP or ERP systems, advanced Excel skills, data analysis capabilities, and the ability to lead cross-functional collaboration. A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience with an emphasis in Operations or Supply Chain Management is required.

Requirements

4–5+ years of inventory planning and control, production planning, and scheduling experience in a manufacturing environment, including experience with a distribution planning model in a cross-functional, matrixed environment.
B.S. degree or equivalent experience, with an emphasis in Operations or Supply Chain Management.
Knowledge and hands-on experience with MRP and/or ERP systems, particularly inventory control, materials requirements planning, distribution planning, item master settings, demand planning, and production planning.
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and the ability to turn data into information, conclusions, and targeted actions.
Ability to lead and facilitate meetings with cross-functional teams at all organizational levels and drive actions using Microsoft tools, including Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, SharePoint, Teams, and Power BI.
Sound decision-making capability and confidence implementing decisions.
Ability to extract and analyze data in ERP systems, including supply versus demand, capacity, and inventory data.
Excellent problem-solving, critical-thinking, and collaboration skills.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment under time constraints and to detect and challenge unsound direction or supply plans.

Nice To Haves

Master scheduler experience.
Six Sigma, APICS-CSCP, APICS-CPIM, or PMP project management certification.
Understanding of basic operations fundamentals, including critical path, resource modeling, and theory of constraints.
Understanding of an S&OP process.
Understanding and review of Work Center, Routing, and Bill of Material parameters that influence accurate and optimized MRP signals, including labor versus equipment, shift schedule, resource quantity, calendar, efficiency, control keys, run versus setup, yield, interoperation time, dispatching, parent/child relationships, subassemblies, lead-time offsets, critical path, scrap, and bulk and backflush implications.

Responsibilities

Establish global stocking and planning strategies by SKU, including make-to-stock, assemble-to-order, and buy-to-order, to optimize inventory while meeting service levels.
Manage Division Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP), collaborating with Production Planning and Operations, driving mitigation of supply constraints, and implementing constraints into the Demand Plan as part of monthly S&OP.
Manage global supply-versus-demand and finished-goods allocation decisions with the Business Unit through S&OP and S&OE processes.
Oversee and optimize global inventory levels; establish inputs for the safety stock algorithm; and ensure days-on-hand and overall inventory goals are met.
Coordinate MRP settings across MRP controllers to align with stocking and planning strategies.
Serve as the primary Business Unit contact for mitigating excess and obsolete inventory and finding outlets across regions and stakeholder functions.
Mitigate MRB inventory in partnership with global cross-functional stakeholders.
Serve as the subject matter expert for SAP processes and end-to-end supply chain functions, including forecasting and demand planning, purchasing, production planning and scheduling, and distribution planning.
Support On-Time Shipment performance by coordinating improvement initiatives across global functions.