Supply Chain Planner

The Supply Chain Planner converts approved customer demand into executable, capacity- and material-constrained plans for assigned products, work centers, and sites. This role drives orders from demand review and batch creation through release, maintaining accurate dates, priorities, and notes so Operations can execute and Customer Service receives realistic commitments.

Reporting to the Supply Chain Planning Manager, the Supply Chain Planner links Manufacturing, Scheduling, Procurement, Customer Service, Quality, Warehouse, R&D, Finance, Inventory Control, and Commercial. The role maintains assigned demand, batches, dates, and notes; identifies constraints; escalates risks with actions and recovery dates; and tracks actions to completion.

• Reviews approved customer demand, confirms planning inputs are complete, and translates demand into time-phased production and material requirements.
• Creates production jobs and batches in SYSPRO within 24 hours when complete demand and documentation are available and links each job to the applicable sales order or demand signal.
• Creates, releases, reschedules, closes, or cancels production jobs to the approved plan and verifies quantities, formulas, BOMs, routings, and manufacturing documentation before release.
• Maintains accurate planning dates, priorities, commitments, status, and notes in SYSPRO; updates changes within one business day and documents an owner, action, and resolution date for exceptions.
• Monitors demand through batch creation, release, production, and shipment; identifies missing demand, uncreated batches, aging jobs, past-due orders, and conflicting dates and drives correction.
• Maintains assigned portions of the master production plan, balancing demand, requested dates, capacity, labor, equipment, materials, quality status, lead times, and campaign requirements.
• Completes pre-flight and readiness reviews before release by confirming materials, packaging, BOMs, formulas, routings, specifications, batch records, and quality requirements with functional owners.
• Reviews MRP output and escalates material shortages or readiness gaps within one business day, identifying affected orders, customer impact, actions, owners, and recovery dates.
• Partners with the Operations Scheduling Manager to translate the master plan into a finite, executable schedule and maintains alignment between planning priorities, batch readiness, and detailed production sequencing.
• Maintains short-, mid-, and long-range demand and capacity views; identifies bottlenecks, campaign conflicts, and future constraints and recommends recovery actions.
• Provides Procurement and Inventory Control with time-phased requirements, shortage priorities, required dates, inventory risks, and planning changes.
• Coordinates with Quality, R&D, Master Data, and Document Control to resolve missing specifications, formulas, BOMs, routings, batch records, testing, release, and change-control requirements.
• Prepares for daily and weekly planning reviews with the master plan, batch status, dates, notes, material readiness, risks, and actions current; tracks assigned actions through closure.
• Validates production commitments using current facts and distinguishes executable orders from risks, opportunities, and recovery actions before reporting dates.
• Provides accurate supply, capacity, inventory, shipment, and risk inputs for Latest Estimate, SIOP/S&OP, financial planning, and operating reviews.
• Communicates executable schedules to Operations, realistic completion dates and recovery plans to Customer Service, and capacity, backlog, inventory, and risk to the Supply Chain Planning Manager.
• Follows planning standard work, calendars, escalation routines, and ERP practices; maintains desk procedures and uses root-cause analysis to reduce late releases, inaccurate dates, material-driven downtime, schedule volatility, and past-due orders.

• Experience planning in high-volume manufacturing across products, work centers, sites, or shared resources.
• Strong knowledge of MRP, production planning, master scheduling, finite capacity, inventory requirements, and manufacturing lead times.
• Experience creating and maintaining production jobs or batches, planning dates, priorities, commitments, status, and notes in a manufacturing ERP.
• Strong ERP and Excel skills with the ability to analyze planning data, reconcile discrepancies, and convert findings into clear actions.
• Ability to evaluate job…