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Supply Chain Planning


  • Manage the demand planning process and performance monitoring for manufacturing, distribution and transportation operations
        - Establish and use best practices to create forecasts, plans and inventory targets
        - Manage and ensure execution of the demand and supply planning process to meet or exceed objectives for Key Performance Indicators
        - Prepare and present data analyses and summary presentations to senior management as needed
        - Gather and analyze supply chain related data as needed
        - Analyze performance to plan and recommend adjustment to plans and targets
        - Manage manufacturing capacity, load requirements and network utilization
        - Work with plant management to analyze and develop plans and recommendations to address supply chain bottlenecks
        - Manage planning and scheduling methods and procedures
  • Manage cross functional communications and facilitate integration between functions for a forward-looking demand planning environment
        - Manage Supply Chain personnel, including planners and analysts
        - Analyze and present concise, accurate data for the demand, supply, inventory and financial planning process for Sales & Operations
          Planning meetings
        - Ensure consistent, continuous monitoring of manufacturing activity and plant performance data
        - Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Operations Management to establish consensus for credible demand, supply and inventory plans
          which are within demonstrated capacities, budget and inventory targets
  • Develop manufacturing and distribution requirements via forecasting and/or customer orders and forecast required production schedules in order to satisfy demand requirements effectively and efficiently
        - Development and maintenance of rolling 12-month forecasts
                o Direct the efforts of Marketing, Sales and Finance in the development of new product forecasts and on-going revisions to existing

                   SKU's
                o Initiate and maintain timely input/revisions into the forecast system
                        ~ Make recommendations and business decisions on new and existing product forecasts on a day-to-day basis
                        ~ Evaluate proposed marketing plans for new products, one time promotions, and supportive activities and recommend changes
                          based on historical data
                        ~ Manage capacity and demand planning process, accounting for product promotions, launches and discontinuations
                        ~ Work with senior Marketing, Sales and Financial personnel to develop alternative plans as needed
                        ~ Determine impact of promotional activities on day-to-day regular business activities
                o Conduct or participate in annual budget meetings
                o Provide budget estimates for review by senior Marketing, Operations and Financial personnel
                o Develop SKU level projections to be used in annual budgeting process
                o Provide direction to Marketing, Procurement, Operations, Finance, Distribution, Manufacturing and Logistics
                o Interact on a day-to-day basis with sales management, customer teams and operations on expected plans/orders which could
                   impact future forecasting decisions
                o Develop volume estimates to facilitate decision-making with respect to capital expenditures on plant equipment
                o Provide Finance Department with approved monthly and annual SKU forecast volume estimates to be used as reference for year-to-
                   go financial forecasts
  • Communicate proactively to appropriate stakeholders in a timely manner regarding current and/or future/potential demand and supply performance issues or misalignments       
        - Schedule feasibility
        - Capacity imbalances
        - Excess inventory
  • Ensure supply plans generate credible master production schedules by identifying and resolving supply-demand imbalances
  • Coordinate with plant materials organizations as necessary
  • Establish onboarding processes and templates for new customers

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