Production Planner

About Us:

Trilliant Food & Nutrition is a leading manufacturer of premium coffees and powdered beverages, proudly headquartered in Little Chute, Wisconsin. With a legacy rooted in quality, innovation, and service, Trilliant delivers branded and private label solutions across retail, food service, and e-commerce channels.

Horseshoe Beverage Company, based in Neenah, WI, is a leading ready-to-drink beverage manufacturer dedicated to delivering an exceptional beverage experience. By combining industry-leading talent and cutting-edge equipment, we drive innovation and consistently deliver the highest quality products to our customers-first and fast.

Our brand portfolio includes Victor Allen's, Dutch Bros beverages and Nurri, our better-for-you protein beverage line. We are passionate about beverages - and about building a team that's just as energized. We invite you to explore opportunities at Trilliant or Horseshoe, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings.

The Production Planner - Co-Man plays a critical role in planning and executing production across our Co-Manufacturing network. This role converts customer demand and copacker requirements into a feasible, rolling production schedule, balancing copacker batch sizes, capacity, material availability, and changeovers to deliver on-time, in-full performance while upholding our food safety and quality standards. A central focus is dairy, our most expensive material: the Planner builds schedules that use available dairy before it expires while meeting each copacker's batch and capacity requirements.

The Planner partners closely with the Co-Man Analysts, Procurement, Production, Quality, Logistics, Warehouse, and Customer Service to translate the supply plan into reliable execution, proactively identifying and resolving scheduling conflicts, material shortages, and capacity constraints before they impact our customers.

• Build, publish, and maintain a rolling production schedule for each Co-Manufacturing partner that supports customer service, operational efficiency, and inventory objectives.
• Convert unconstrained demand into a feasible plan based on the assumptions and requirements set by each copacker, including batch sizes, run rates, capacity, and changeovers.
• Send weekly production schedules to copackers and communicate schedule changes promptly and clearly.
• Minimize changeovers and schedule disruptions while balancing service levels, inventory targets, and cost objectives.
• Maintain schedule stability within established planning freeze periods.
• Create supply scenarios to simulate the impact of demand or supply changes.

• Plan production to consume available dairy inventory before expiration while meeting copacker batch and capacity requirements.
• Provide dairy and other material requirements to the Co-Man Analysts and Procurement in time to place and receive orders.
• Partner with the Co-Man Analysts, Inventory Planning, and Procurement to manage inventory health, including excess, obsolete, and at-risk materials.
• Identify material shortages early and work with Procurement and the Analysts on expedites, transfers, or schedule changes.

• Coordinate with copackers to align their production schedules with company demand, quality, and delivery requirements.
• Monitor production progress at Co-Manufacturing sites to ensure timelines are met and product quality and food safety standards are maintained.
• Coordinate with the Co-Man Analysts and Warehouse on WIP and material readiness for delivery to copackers.
• Establish and maintain production assumptions for each copacker (rates, batch sizes, sequencing, changeovers, capacity) and document them.

• Lead the weekly and monthly IBP meeting, including supply and demand review, risks, and actions.
• Identify supply chain risks and align with the leadership team on appropriate actions.
• Use a collaborative, consensus-based approach with Operations, Finance, Procurement, and Supply Chain leadership.
• Communicate order status, schedule changes, and risks to Customer Service and other stakeholders in a clear and timely manner.

• Monitor and support performance against key metrics, including schedule attainment, OTIF, inventory days on hand, copacker capacity utilization, and dairy utilization and waste.
• Update the supply and demand planning workbook with new…