Plant Supply Chain Planner - 1st Shift - Bev Manufacturing

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FULL TIME Springdale, AR, US

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POSITION SUMMARY

The Plant Supply Chain Planner reports to the Operations Manager and is based out of our Springdale, Arkansas location. This hybrid role oversees the packaging, ingredients, and variable materials combining supply chain management responsibilities with production planning to ensure efficient material flow, optimal inventory levels, and on time manufacturing. This individual will work cross
-functionally with procurement, logistics, production and corporate scheduling to drive operational excellence. Key areas of focus include developing and maintaining good relationships with vendors, transportation and distributors and ensuring materials are available 24/7 for productions and making corrections as necessary

Primary

Responsibilities include:

• Responsibilities include partnering with the Operations Manager
  • Performing high dollar cycle counts (inventory adjustments)
  • Presenting Yield Reports
  • Forecasting Production Volume vs Budget
• Validate the prior day’s finished goods production, including reviewing scheduled production versus actual production and verifying any production discrepancies greater than five (5) percent.
• Ability to use an inventory reporting system (QAD).
• Adjust work orders in QAD for any count discrepancies and communicate to impacted departments when it is complete.
• Complete random cycle counts on the bottles. Determine the cycle count and at what frequency. Input cycle counts in QAD, and informs impacted departments of any significant cycle count adjustments.
• Understand productivity calculations to understand measures and set targets.
• Ability to understand inventory principles to keep accurate inventories. Use problem-solving skills to figure out inventory discrepancies issues associated with product data in QAD and what is physically in the warehouse; utilize Root Cause Analysis on why data integrity is wrong in QAD.

• Makes final decisions on procurement of material supply requirements based on MRP forecasting. Placement and purchase orders for packaging, ingredients, and variable materials from approved suppliers. Determines which suppliers to use to meet business needs [TQ1]
• Coordinate with suppliers to ensure timely delivery of raw material and components to include managing raw material at 3 rd party warehouse and plant.
• Track inbound shipments, resolve logistics issues and manage documentation.
• Monitor, prioritize and report progress of supply orders while identifying and communicating all delays that can have a significant impact on production. This includes problem solving solutions to corporate scheduler in a timely, organized and consistent manner.
• Develop, maintain, and adjust production schedule based on corporate scheduling forecast, inventory targets and capacity constraints while optimizing the schedule at the plant
• Works within and outside of normal hours to monitor production schedule-in-progress and address and scheduling…