Supply Planning Analyst / Strategic Planner
Main Responsibilities
- Ensure personal compliance with all company Safety regulations and guidelines, Quality System, Operational, and Human Resource policies, procedures, and practices, including housekeeping procedures.
- Collaborate with Supply and Demand Planning, Manufacturing, Logistics, Procurement, Sales, and Marketing to determine the appropriate supply strategies based on critical demand and supply characteristics.
- Work with the Supply Planners to determine the optimal approach for applying key parameters for planning, including calculating/setting safety stock targets and EOQ values while ensuring alignment to achieve aggressive service, cost, and working capital targets.
- Perform long term planning process, review capacity across the supply chain for both regional and global views and provide recommendations to executive management.
- Review, analyze and update key master data fields in the ERP system to ensure adherence to supply chain processes.
- Support the sales and operations planning process including review and analyze planning data, and update and publish planning KPIs. Create/prepare reports for leadership review and performance communication to business partners as appropriate.
- Lead project and/or process work streams aimed at developing creative solutions and make recommendations to improve planning performance balancing business objectives, including cost/benefit analysis, seasonal demand patterns and associated action plans, what-if analysis, and liability inventory optimization.
- Develop new reporting/analytical tools to support projects and departmental processes as needed
- Ad hoc Supply Chain projects as assigned
Qualifications
- Bachelor degree
- 5 – 10 years of experience in planning and/or logistics
- Industry knowledge is preferred
- iScala and SAP experience a plus