Supply Planner

The Supply Planner develops and maintains feasible, stable supply and production plans that translate approved demand and supply priorities into executable schedules across assigned plants, lines, or product categories. The role balances capacity, material availability, labor, changeovers, sanitation and maintenance windows, inventory targets, manufacturing efficiency, and customer service requirements. The Supply Planner serves as the execution bridge between supply planning and manufacturing by proactively identifying constraints, evaluating scenarios, recommending tradeoffs, and maintaining disciplined planning parameters and master data to improve plan reliability, execution readiness, and decision quality.

Develop and maintain supply and production plans across assigned plants, lines, or categories, translating approved supply requirements into executable schedules. Align plans with demand priorities, capacity, material availability, labor, production rates, changeovers, sanitation and maintenance windows, and inventory objectives. Manage plan and schedule stability while responding to demand shifts, supply constraints, and operational disruptions in a timely, fact-based manner.

Evaluate supply and schedule risks related to capacity, material shortages, labor constraints, downtime, yield, quality holds, changeovers, sanitation windows, and production sequencing. Build scenarios for production timing, recovery plans, inventory builds, constraint mitigation, and customer impact. Quantify tradeoffs across service, inventory, capacity utilization, manufacturing efficiency, cost, waste, and working capital; escalation of material risks with clear options and recommended actions.

Use Kinaxis Maestro and other planning tools, dashboards, alerts, scenarios, optimization outputs, and digital workflows to support exception-based supply planning and scheduling. Apply a trust-but-verify mindset to system-generated plans and recommendations by validating assumptions, parameters, constraints, data quality, and operational feasibility. Document override rationale, identify automation opportunities, and partner with the Planning COE, Manufacturing, and technology teams to improve workflows, master data, and adoption.

Partner with Manufacturing, Supply Capacity Planning, Materials Planning, Deployment, Procurement, Logistics, Quality, Maintenance, Customer Service, Finance, and Commercial teams. Facilitate alignment on production priorities, schedule feasibility, constraint resolution, recovery actions, and inventory build strategies. Communicate what changed, why it matters, the service and financial implications, and the decision needed while promoting enterprise-first outcomes rather than local optimization.

Maintain planning and scheduling parameters, including production rates, calendars, frozen windows, changeover rules, sanitation windows, sequencing logic, material constraints, and plant master data. Monitor supply plan and MPS adherence, schedule attainment and stability, production plan adherence, capacity utilization, changeover performance, service risk, and inventory impact. Conduct root cause analysis on recurring misses and exceptions; recommend improvements to planning routines, governance, data quality, handoffs, and constraint ownership.

Owns supply and production plans, planning parameters, constraint visibility, and execution readiness for assigned plants, lines, categories, or products. Supports cross-functional…