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Overview
Position Summary:
The Supply Planner is responsible for planning, scheduling, and coordinating the final approval of products through the production cycle and production plans to ensure materials are provided according to schedules. The Supply Planner is responsible for overseeing the master schedule and ensuring comprehensive compliance with materials requirements for manufacturing. Responsibilities include the development of detailed production plans for manufacturing, including creating the production plan in the Material Resources Planning (MRP) system, and issuing documents and updated schedules to the Manufacturing, Filling and Packaging teams. Ensures all responsibilities are carried out in accordance with established standard operating procedures (SOPs), policies and applicable regulations and standards. Responsibilities
Develop and execute production plans based on raw material availability, capacity, safety stock targets and agreed upon master production schedule. Track plan vs actuals and other key metrics as needed. Propose new metrics to drive improved department performance as needed. Identify capacity constraints and lead different teams to identify potential solutions. Load master production schedules into MRP system and process corresponding MRP messages. Create, monitor, and maintain data integrity of work orders, analyze work order variances, understand backorder situation, expedite, and escalate as necessary. Preemptively identify and resolve issues that may impact product availability. Excellent understanding of product life-cycle management and impact to long term planning, purchasing and execution. Analyze and evaluate timing of product changes to efficiently deal with obsolescence and shelf life to minimize scrap. Drive cross-functional initiatives including production, engineering, R&D, QA, marketing, finance. Lead cross-site initiatives as needed. Support data integrity in ERP system by working with IT as needed for issue resolution, development of ad-hoc reports, and data mining as needed by the business. Analyze usage data and stock levels to order parts to satisfy service levels; maintain inventory levels per plan and expedite shortages. Examine production variances, resolve problems where possible, and/or communicate more difficult problems to management. Monitor work order variances, lead-times and inventory turns for assigned products and take steps to meet department goals. Serve as a liaison between manufacturing and shared services in setting priorities and requirements. Strive for improved relationships across staff and departments, including support functions, to ensure on time delivery and meeting customer expectations. Create and use tools to drive decision making and continuous process improvement. Ensure all responsibilities are carried out in accordance with SOPs, policies and applicable regulations and standards. General understanding of Werfen products and industry. Excellent communication skills, including presenting at executive level and writing business reports and correspondence. Initiating and implementing process/procedure improvements. Other duties as assigned. Skills & Capabilities
Working knowledge of biological and chemical laboratory procedures. Extensive experience with SAP (PP module). Strong Microsoft Office knowledge. Superior analytical skills. Knowledge of supply chain metrics. Power BI experience strongly preferred. Qualifications
Education: Bachelor’s degree, or its equivalent, required. Experience: Minimum of 3 years’ experience in supply chain planning/purchasing environment required. Understanding and application of planning roles and responsibilities required. Working knowledge of biological and chemical laboratory procedures required. Working knowledge of SAP (Supply Planning/Customer Master/MD04/ZPP04) strongly preferred. Demonstrated experience using Microsoft Office, including Word and Excel required. Understanding of good documentation practices required. Knowledge of supply chain metrics required. Additional Information
International Mobility: No Salary Range: $70,000 - $90,000 Note: Individual compensation is based on the candidate\'s experience, skills, knowledge, education, certifications, internal equity, budget and/or other business and organizational needs. Werfen is an Equal Opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workplace. Werfen strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination, harassment or retaliation based upon an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, mental/physical disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic as defined by applicable state or federal law. If you have a disability and need an accommodation in relation to the online application process, please contact NA talent acquisition at Werfen.com for assistance. We operate directly in over 30 countries, and in more than 100 territories through distributors. Annual revenue is approximately $2 billion and more than 7,000 employees around the world comprise our Werfen team.
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Position Summary:
The Supply Planner is responsible for planning, scheduling, and coordinating the final approval of products through the production cycle and production plans to ensure materials are provided according to schedules. The Supply Planner is responsible for overseeing the master schedule and ensuring comprehensive compliance with materials requirements for manufacturing. Responsibilities include the development of detailed production plans for manufacturing, including creating the production plan in the Material Resources Planning (MRP) system, and issuing documents and updated schedules to the Manufacturing, Filling and Packaging teams. Ensures all responsibilities are carried out in accordance with established standard operating procedures (SOPs), policies and applicable regulations and standards. Responsibilities
Develop and execute production plans based on raw material availability, capacity, safety stock targets and agreed upon master production schedule. Track plan vs actuals and other key metrics as needed. Propose new metrics to drive improved department performance as needed. Identify capacity constraints and lead different teams to identify potential solutions. Load master production schedules into MRP system and process corresponding MRP messages. Create, monitor, and maintain data integrity of work orders, analyze work order variances, understand backorder situation, expedite, and escalate as necessary. Preemptively identify and resolve issues that may impact product availability. Excellent understanding of product life-cycle management and impact to long term planning, purchasing and execution. Analyze and evaluate timing of product changes to efficiently deal with obsolescence and shelf life to minimize scrap. Drive cross-functional initiatives including production, engineering, R&D, QA, marketing, finance. Lead cross-site initiatives as needed. Support data integrity in ERP system by working with IT as needed for issue resolution, development of ad-hoc reports, and data mining as needed by the business. Analyze usage data and stock levels to order parts to satisfy service levels; maintain inventory levels per plan and expedite shortages. Examine production variances, resolve problems where possible, and/or communicate more difficult problems to management. Monitor work order variances, lead-times and inventory turns for assigned products and take steps to meet department goals. Serve as a liaison between manufacturing and shared services in setting priorities and requirements. Strive for improved relationships across staff and departments, including support functions, to ensure on time delivery and meeting customer expectations. Create and use tools to drive decision making and continuous process improvement. Ensure all responsibilities are carried out in accordance with SOPs, policies and applicable regulations and standards. General understanding of Werfen products and industry. Excellent communication skills, including presenting at executive level and writing business reports and correspondence. Initiating and implementing process/procedure improvements. Other duties as assigned. Skills & Capabilities
Working knowledge of biological and chemical laboratory procedures. Extensive experience with SAP (PP module). Strong Microsoft Office knowledge. Superior analytical skills. Knowledge of supply chain metrics. Power BI experience strongly preferred. Qualifications
Education: Bachelor’s degree, or its equivalent, required. Experience: Minimum of 3 years’ experience in supply chain planning/purchasing environment required. Understanding and application of planning roles and responsibilities required. Working knowledge of biological and chemical laboratory procedures required. Working knowledge of SAP (Supply Planning/Customer Master/MD04/ZPP04) strongly preferred. Demonstrated experience using Microsoft Office, including Word and Excel required. Understanding of good documentation practices required. Knowledge of supply chain metrics required. Additional Information
International Mobility: No Salary Range: $70,000 - $90,000 Note: Individual compensation is based on the candidate\'s experience, skills, knowledge, education, certifications, internal equity, budget and/or other business and organizational needs. Werfen is an Equal Opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workplace. Werfen strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination, harassment or retaliation based upon an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, mental/physical disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic as defined by applicable state or federal law. If you have a disability and need an accommodation in relation to the online application process, please contact NA talent acquisition at Werfen.com for assistance. We operate directly in over 30 countries, and in more than 100 territories through distributors. Annual revenue is approximately $2 billion and more than 7,000 employees around the world comprise our Werfen team.
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