Production Planner

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The Color Plus Planner is accountable for daily detailed scheduling and production plans for single/multiple manufacturing facilities using SAP’s Advanced Planning Optimization (APO) system. The Color Plus Planner delivers a high level of service of assigned production plants and transfer lanes with the lowest landed cost planning solution for all products made at each plant location. In addition to the C+ planning responsibilities.

The incumbent plays a key role between customer service, manufacturing, and transportation by ensuring an effective flow of communication regarding product availability, execution of lowest landed cost planning and minimization of inefficient freight. The incumbent reports to the Logistics Manager.

Provides detailed scheduling production plans for single/multiple manufacturing facilities using an APO planning platform: (50%)

• Providing timely delivery of daily production plans while adhering to planning best practice methodology.
• Understanding and incorporating manufacturing constraints in scheduling rules in order to maximize resource efficiency and minimize inventory stock-outs.
• Providing proactive communication with key plant personnel to ensure adherence to schedule and processes.
• Collaborating with plant personnel to develop plan of action for shortages including scheduled and unscheduled downtime to ensure high customer service.

Executes inter-plant transfer strategies to enable high service of non-make items and recognizes capacity constraints within manufacturing facilities to maintain high service at lowest landed cost: (30%)

• Executing of inter-plant transfers, rail replenishments and order movements to maximize customer service while minimizing freight expenses.
• Manages all planning tools including master data to execute effective planning resulting in timely service and reduce/avoid excess and obsolete inventory.
• Monitors material availability and outbound inter-plant transfer service while managing truck building/rearranging process of inter-plant transfers to support actual customer order service goals.

Ad hoc projects and tasks will arise that require attention, drawn from sources ranges from manufacturing/planning issues to company initiatives related to our C+ business (20%)

• Manages make and transfer master data for each production facility to help facilitate both short term production and long term demand supply matching exercises.
• Works closely with finance, measures excess and obsolete inventory and develops action plans to reduce inefficient inventory with both proactive and reactive processes.

Decision Making:

The C+ Planner possesses strong decision-making ability to address day-to-day operational challenges and address deviation from results with defined action plans and collaboration. Decision making initiative is expected to be independent in a high accountability team environment.

The C+ Planner has no direct reports, but requires a high level of collaboration with…