The Supply Chain Planner is responsible for planning, coordinating, and
maintaining daily supply chain operations across one or more functional areas,
including materials planning, production, inventory management, logistics,
demand management, customer service, and order fulfillment. The role ensures
supply and demand alignment, optimizes inventory and planning parameters, and
drives operational excellence to meet internal and external customer
expectations. Working collaboratively with cross-functional teams and suppliers,
the Supply Chain Planner leverages planning systems, analytics, and continuous
improvement methodologies to deliver reliable supply chain performance.
Key Responsibilities
* Plan and execute daily supply chain activities across materials, production,
inventory, logistics, customer service, demand management, and order
fulfillment.
* Develop and maintain planning system strategies that improve planning
accuracy and generate consistent supply chain signals.
* Monitor, review, and optimize planning parameters to support inventory
optimization and supply continuity.
* Analyze supply chain performance using key performance indicators (KPIs) and
implement corrective actions to improve operational efficiency.
* Identify potential supply chain risks, material shortages, capacity
constraints, and planning exceptions, and proactively implement mitigation
plans.
* Collaborate with internal stakeholders, manufacturing teams, procurement,
logistics, suppliers, and customers to resolve planning issues and improve
supply chain performance.
* Utilize materials planning systems and analytical tools to manage supply and
demand plans while performing root cause analysis on planning exceptions.
* Support engineering change management by evaluating and implementing part
changes, recent part introductions, supersessions, and obsolescence plans while
minimizing excess and obsolete inventory.
* Apply Plan for Every Part (PFEP) principles to improve material flow,
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