Production Planning Professional

Demand & Supply Planning associates, processing, and analyzing demand from our customers in different dimensions providing a holistic business view including risk and opportunity scenarios across functions for aligned decision-making and proactive actions on end-to-end supply capability and inventory management. Target is to achieve financial performance and customer expectations for any given channel or product. Review and action MRP output Release and manage purchase orders. Review and transmit production need dates and forecast to contract manufacturers. Lead production meetings with suppliers to ensure production goals are obtained. Inventory management such as excess & obsolete review, PPV review, action PO change messages, and review of contract manufacturers third party purchasing practices. Summarize and report risk to production plans and formulate action plans to resolve and prevent such risk. Manage impact on the demand plan from new product releases and engineering changes to existing products with properly executed phase in /phase out plans. Interface with order fulfilment to determine proper customer priorities and allocate supply appropriate to orders. Bachelor Degree or Equivalent in Business. 3 years production planning/purchasing experience. Strong working knowledge of MRP / ERP systems. SAP Kinaxis Rapid Response (Control Tower) APICS certification a plus. Advanced English proficiency Proficient in MS Excel, Word and Access.