Supply Chain Master Scheduler

Responsibilities

• Analyze demand and supply at the item, customer, and master schedule levels, determine out of balance conditions, identify alternative and recommend actions for approval.
• Collaborate with sales, marketing, and manufacturing to understand and reduce internal and customer lead-times.
• Conduct rough-cut capacity planning prior to publishing master schedule to ensure alignment with SI&OP commitments.
• Oversee S&OE commitments within the sites to ensure efficient detailed scheduling and utilization of capacity.
• Identify, negotiate, and resolve conflicts with respect to material and capacity availability and order-promising integrity across the manufacturing network.
• Create a master schedule that satisfies customer demand while leveling workload released to manufacturing, and optimize inventory levels and resource utilization.
• Maintain scheduling parameters, such as lead-times, lot sizes, and cycle times.
• Monitor the implementation of schedules and evaluate their success as well as assess and mitigate risks that may impact the schedule.
• Proactively identify potential scheduling conflicts or bottlenecks and work with relevant departments to resolve them.
• Collaborate closely with Production, Purchasing, Engineering, Product Management, Quality and Sales teams to ensure that the schedule is realistic and aligns with overall business objectives.
• Evaluate and adjust schedules to account for inventories and capacity constraints.
• Communicate schedule changes to corresponding stakeholders as changes occur.
• Review upcoming projects for complexity, special build requirement, line and capacity requirements, manpower allocation, etc.
• Identify areas for process improvement within the scheduling function and implement changes to meet stated lead times.