Production Planning Supervisor

The Production Planning Supervisor manages a team of 4-5 planners while also serving as the planning lead for the PCR workflow. Serves as the lead for managing stockouts by maintaining the plant stockout dashboard, which highlights both current and projected supply risks. Functions as the subject matter expert for the team on all planning and scheduling related activities in SAP. The Production Planning Supervisor is responsible for supervising the timely execution of MRP in the SAP environment, will review mid and long term production plans by the production planning team that serve as the foundation for raw material, staffing, equipment, capital, and outsourcing plans. Daily/Weekly the candidate establishes and maintains finite PCR production schedules as required by MRP/ERP, maintains an optimal workflow for production facility, monitoring daily exceptions, analyzing data, and resolving routine and non-routine issues. Candidate analyzes inventory movement / trends for optimum utilization, identifies safety stocks, optimum batch size, processes capacity & efficiency, analyzes and dispositions excess and obsolete materials, uses / develops reports and tools that could improve production workflow and generates data or runs standard materials reports, summarizes and communicates conclusions generated from these reports, and recommends improvements. Collaborates with cross functional teams in a global, multi-tiered matrix organization. Serves as the subject matter expert for the planning team relative to all planning related activities, both inside and outside SAP. How You’ll Make An Impact Supervise and execute all planning activities needed to build and maintain supply. Provide necessary tools for the planning team to help ensure proper build sizes and build frequency to ensure optimal planning to meet customer demand and minimize scrap risk. Identify and maintain mid and long term production plans for raw material, semi-finished and finished goods in MRP. Utilize forecasts, direction from Global Supply Planning and understanding of supply and plant constraints to optimize plans. Review plans & schedules in the rough-cut capacity stage and respond in advance to demand greater than available capacity and level load time as needed. Understand plant capacities and constraints with the ability to articulate related insights to cross functional stakeholders. Accurately maintain the appropriate planning parameters for capacity, resources, work centers, and shop calendar to generate scheduling recommendations. Establish and maintain production schedules ensuring work orders are sequenced to meet on-time delivery using input from plant functions and by evaluating scheduling alternatives to determine options and preferred solutions. Proactively monitor potential conflicts and rectify bottleneck areas that may cause delays and promptly respond to demand and operational changes to support customer deliveries. Escalate unresolved issues as appropriate. Generate weekly and monthly scheduling related metrics and reporting to measure performance to plan. Summarize and communicate conclusions generated from these reports and recommend improvements. Manage product lifecycle projects for new, existing, and discontinuing products to ensure product availability and to minimize scrap via communications on status and issues with Production, Procurement, Supply Planning, Engineering, R&D, QC, and Division Marketing. What You Bring Education: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Business, Product Supply Management or related discipline Work Experience: 2+ years of production planning and scheduling experience. 5+ years manufacturing production experience, preferably in a regulated environment. 1-2 years of supervisory experience desirable. APICS CPIM certification a plus. In depth SAP experience production planning and detailed scheduling. Understanding of cost components of applied planning practices. Exposure to NPI (New Product Introductions) and fa…

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