Planner – Supply Chain (Greenville, SC)

Job Description:

Planner – Supply Chain Collaborate with Innovative 3

Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a wide variety of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with other curious, creative 3

Mers.

The person hired for the position of Planner – Supply Chain will be responsible for managing production planning or ordering, including setting parameters and the capacity and material planning of assigned products and production lines in order to meet required service levels while minimizing inventory.

As a Planner – Supply Chain, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Planning and Scheduling of Production Orders
• Placing Purchase Orders to support Production
• Managing exceptions (materials, capacity) and determining how best to resolve constraints to balance service, inventory, and cost in the best interest of the supply chain.
• Optimizing and maintaining production lot sizes, production cycles and safety stocks to deliver the desired balance between inventory and service. Collaborating and sharing inventory, service and cost trade-off curves with the businesses served (locally and in other regions) to ensure target service levels are set appropriately.
• Ensuring accurate requirements to upstream and downstream operations, including outside plants.
• Managing Capacity in the short, median and long term