Supply Planner

Position: Supply Planner

Job Location:  Hershey, PA

Job Summary:

The primary purpose of a Supply Planner is to develop and implement a master production schedule and inventory management strategy to support customer service goals and achieve the company’s financial objectives. 

Role Responsibilities:

Master Planning System Set Up

• With guidance, develop and maintain system table settings, calendars, and attributes to develop a feasible rough cut master production schedule.  
   

Master Production Scheduling

• With guidance, develop a feasible rough cut 18-month production schedule for finished goods and dependent demand requirements for SKU’s assigned ensuring that the schedule support sales goals, inventory financial targets, and minimizes product age and obsolescence.
• Monitor and adjust plans as needed regularly.  
• Develop this schedule using JDA Master Planning recommendations based upon scheduling parameters and system settings.
• Oversee the successful transformation of these schedules into shift level plans through appropriate communication and negotiation with Operation Planners.  
• Incorporate the flexibility to accommodate a range of potential outcomes of the business plan.

Product Supply Coordination

• Utilize exception management to coordinate activity that impacts the ability to maintain constant and sufficient product supply.  
• Analyze and evaluate current manufacturing facilities to determine when additional manufacturing capacity is required to support sales demand.  
• Utilize the PCM process to review items for executional feasibility and communicate potential issues to internal customers in a timely fashion.  
• Incorporate new items into plans and schedules.  Serve as project champion for all assigned intermediate halb items.  
• Review AGI report monthly.  
• Manage product shortages through the appropriate JDA settings.  
• Communicate with Marketing, Sales, Manufacturing, and other stakeholders’ shortage or overage issues and help to develop solutions. 

Inventory Management

• Maintain finished good and intermediate inventory targets for assigned items.  
• Manage item versions to support packaging changes or in-and-out programs at all locations.
• Investigate outlier changes in available inventory in a timely manner and take appropriate follow up actions.  
• Support regional, resource, and seasonal build strategies using the JDA system.  
• Monitor new items to ensure efficient flow of product both physically and systematically.  
• Effectively use the JDA Fulfillment and Deployment tools and their settings to efficiently and equitably deploy product throughout the network. Identify opportunities for safety stock rationalization.  
• Minimize aged and unsalable product through maintaining calculated inventory for assigned items.  

ATP support/Customer Service

• Maintain accurate production information in JDA/SAP to ensure product is available to support ATP and support customer service level targets.  
• Work with Customer service to resolve ATP issues and perform necessary functions such as reviewing the ATP report to identify supportability issues.
   

Miscellaneous Planning Duties

• Complete annual planning activities in accordance within the timetable and guidelines.  
• Set up Bills of Materials in JDA for items generating dependent demand.  
• Conduct analysis of operational processes as needed.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Engineering, preferably emphasizing Supply Chain Management.  
• APICS, CPIM certification helpful.
• Minimum of 1-2 years progressive, related experience in such areas as production scheduling, inventory management or supply/operations planning preferred.
• Knowledge of Supply Chain Management Principles
• Proficiency with Supply Planning Systems 
• SAP experience preferred
• Strong teamwork skills, including the ability to train others
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong mathematical, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Strong general PC skills (MS suite of products)

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