Supply Chain Director

Description ABOUT GOLDEN STATE FOODS

Golden State Foods is a distinguished leader in the food service industry, offering an extensive array of products and services to a diverse clientele. Rooted in the values of quality service and integrity, we are dedicated to creating a supportive and inclusive atmosphere where employees can advance, innovate, and contribute to our ongoing success.

Golden State Foods is a distinguished leader in the food service industry, offering an extensive array of products and services to a diverse clientele. Rooted in the values of quality service and integrity, we are dedicated to creating a supportive and inclusive atmosphere where employees can advance, innovate, and contribute to our ongoing success.

The Supply Chain Director provides leadership for end-to-end site supply chain operations including demand planning, materials management, production scheduling, warehousing, inventory control, and customer fulfillment, to meet GSF LPNA objectives for quality, efficiency, productivity, and customer satisfaction.

This leader will translate the S&OP-driven Master Demand Plan into an executable supply strategy that ensures exceptional service levels while optimizing working capital, minimizing spoilage, and maintaining strict food safety and regulatory compliance.

The ideal candidate combines strong warehouse and distribution leadership with advanced MRP expertise, ERP discipline (D365 preferred), and a proven ability to lead in a fast-paced, shelf-life–sensitive manufacturing environment.

• Drive site-level materials planning and production scheduling ensuring an uninterrupted supply of finished products for the customers and to maximize efficient operations and production capitalizing the LPNA Master Plan, demand forecast inputs and MRP tool.
• Responsible for overseeing resulting customer sales orders & shipments fulfillment and the service performance for the site; scope of sales orders fulfillment and resulting service levels.
• Manages and develops the site warehouse operation, this includes setting policies and measures to ensure inventory accuracy, expense management, warehouse efficiencies and P&L management.
• Manage and develop the warehouse processes that interact and support the production operations such as batching, kitting and returns while acting as a separate entity to the liquid’s production operation.
• Responsible to drive correct use of the D365 ERP planning functions based on recognized supply chain science, to ensure integrity of data with strong focus on MRP planning parameters, review and recommend improvements in the development of informational tools to support operating decisions, materials management, warehousing and accounting.
• Audits operational procedures and programs to identify and implement improvements in product availability, storage optimization, receiving and shipping, sanitation, security and inventory accuracy, resulting in increased efficiencies and productivity.
• Lead the team in managing Working Capital for raw materials and finished goods to plan, monitor finished goods and raw materials to reduce excess inventory and reduce shortages
• Lead the team in minimizing scrap due to expiration and obsolescence of inventories.
• Generates various inventory reports shared across several cross-functional teams, produce intelligence.
• Maintains clear communication with Sales, Product Development, Commercialization, Quality Assurance, Customer Service, Operations, and Procurement to ensure the organization’s affective plans.

• Responsible for developing the manufacturing site supply chain strategic direction and goals, ensuring alignment with Plant…