Supply Chain Planner -Specialty Crops & Oils

Summary

Develop and maintain the Master Production Schedule (daily and/or weekly) for selected plants and species. The Supply Chain Planner is responsible for utilizing Company resources efficiently and filling customer orders. 

Principal and Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Creates and maintains the optimum Master Production Schedule.  These plans must meet both the short and long term goals.
• Creates and maintains the optimum inventory profile to ensure fulfillment of customer requirements, taking into account forecast accuracy, schedule compliance and production smoothing requirements.
• Reviews forecast with Demand Planning to review issues such as product mix or capacity constraints.  
• Works as part of the Sales and Operations Planning team to review the forward plan and past performance.  This will also involve a constant dialogue with respective plants, Demand Planning, Order Management and Distribution.
• Monitors and reviews the supply models in Excel, including all the automatic, overnight processes and interfaces to and from SAP.  
• Daily exception reports will be produced both systems exceptions where parameters are missing and process exceptions, for example where supply may not meet demand or stock is low.
• Monitors exceptions on a daily basis and communicate with Order Management as to the most effective solution; advise of any modifications to the supply plan and options for utilizing inventory.
   

Minimum Education

• Bachelors degree

Experience Requirements

• 3 -5 years related work experience or in the absence of a Bachelors degree, total experience equals 12 years.  
• Working knowledge of Supply Chain and SAP as it relates to inventory and the master production schedule.  
• Must be able to travel overnight to customer/vendor locations and/or plant locations. 

Experience Preferred

Environmental Factors and Physical Requirements

• Position is mostly sedentary but may require occasional moving to other offices or buildings.
• Work activity is in an office, open-partitioned, cubicle environment.
• May be exposed to temperatures of 28 degrees to 100 degrees Fahrenheit with both ambient and 100% humidity.
• May handle product 25 degrees to 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
• May be exposed to noise ranges of 50 db to 110 db.
• Must wear and use protective and safety equipment required for the job as directed by the Company.