Inventory & Supply Planner

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Full Time Ind Contributor Buffalo, NY, US

8 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $65,000.00 To $80,000.00 Annually

New Era Cap, LLC. is an international lifestyle brand headquartered in Buffalo, NY with an authentic sports heritage that dates back over 100 years. Best known for being the official on-field cap for MLB, official sideline cap for NFL, and official on-court cap for NBA, New Era Cap is the brand of choice not only for its headwear collection, but also for its accessories and apparel lines for men, women and youth.

The brand is worn as a symbol of self-expression by athletes, artists and some of the most interesting people around the globe. New Era Cap encourages people to truly express their personal style and individuality through its products.

Since 1920, this family-owned business has hired employees who are masters of their craft. We are innovators, architects of culture, experts, and forward thinkers. We demand excellence because we pride ourselves on the quality of our products and the authenticity of our brand.

The Inventory & Supply Planner is responsible for coordinating production planning, inventory management, subcontractor support, and cross-functional communication to ensure products are planned, produced, stocked, and delivered in alignment with business needs. This role partners closely with internal teams, production facilities, subcontractors, customer service, finance, IT, and commercial partners to support accurate inventory, timely production execution, and effective service to customers.

The Global Demand Planning team at New Era analyzes sales data and trends to develop accurate forecasts that support inventory and production planning. They partner with cross-functional teams to monitor demand, evaluate forecast performance, and ensure alignment between supply, demand, and overall business objectives.

Planning

Activities:

• Manage all cap machine activities
  • Work with business plans to identify all cap machine requirements for the year
    • Work with Miami facility to map out capacity plans
    • Work with the subcontractors to help estimate total volume for the year, and prepare weekly expected output required per vendor and the expected costs for New Era
    • Collaborate with the Finance team to identify the blended cap machine costs
  • Lead cross-functional teams, including Licensed Management, Product, Miami Production, Planning, Sourcing and Global Production, to identify cap machine plans for the hot market and planned events
    • Identify times of the year for bottlenecks and ensure clear communication on expectations for lead times
  • Maintain 6-month rolling capacity report for cap machine
    • Understand future events, obtain forecasts, and review constraints
    • Communicate with subcontractors and the Miami facility about expected needs
  • Cap machine scheduling
    • Review customer orders and determine execution requirements
    • Release production orders to the Miami facility, communicate priorities with production team, and monitor completion and shipments
    • Work with subcontractors to issue subcontracting purchase orders
      • Pull specs and cost the caps based on cap machine criteria
      • Manage the inventory held at each subcontractor, ensuring accuracy
      • Ensure clear communication on delivery expectations to both the subcontractor and customer relations
    • Manage subcontracting relationships and act as liaison for New Era internal departments
    • Communicate with Customer Service on delivery expectations and where orders will be shipped from
• Manage all player cap activities
  • Work with business plans to identify all player cap requirements for the year
    • Lead cross-functional meetings to outline upcoming events and manage documentation of domestic vs global products
    • Release production orders per schedule to meet timelines
    • Work with Miami facility to map out capacity plans
• Lead planning activities for blank base caps and blank M2O apparel
  • Maintain proper inventory levels based on desired inventory
  • Review inbound inventory across all plants and demand to determine required buys
  • Create purchase requisitions and work with global production in line with priorities
  • Lead cross-functional meetings for the cap machine and M2O future activities to obtain proper forecasts
  • Identify hot market requirements and ensure blank inventory is available to meet the needs of the events
• Engage in heat seal…