Career Category
Supply Chain
Job Description
Overview:
Working in ADL’s Supply Chain team, you will be responsible for translating the master production schedule (MPS) into a feasible and accurate short-term detail schedule for a fixed time period, ensuring on time availability of product, whilst taking known constraints and planning parameters into account. Alongside this, the Short-Term Planner will:
- Provide key production planning information to support ADL's integrated business planning (IBP) processes within the 0-13 week time horizon.
- Work closely with the area's finite scheduler and product planner providing timely and accurate information to ensure the generation of feasible production schedules.
- Is responsible for local weekly and monthly planning processes.
- Is responsible for reporting out key KPI's for ADL planning.
- Facilitate weekly scheduling and capacity review meetings with production, QA, warehouse, and process development departments.
- Ensure a feasible plan and release plan for the manufacturing areas.
Key Responsibilities:
- Is responsible for the short-term executional planning process in their assigned area, which support the site’s execution in Amgen’s S&OP process (Planning cycle). Local processes include production planning, line scheduling, and shipment planning.
- Continuously identifies opportunities for system and process improvements and uses operational excellence (OpEx) and project management skills to implement changes.
- Report ADL short-term planning performance metrics for their assigned area.
- At times may be asked to present information, analyses, and provide recommendations to management.
- Articulate and highlight key master production schedules changes to the MPS lead.
- Provide planning SME knowledge to support NC/CAPA investigations.
- Manage and monitor SAP / RR transactions to support production plan, capacity analysis, planning cycle and procurement activities.
- Convert planned process orders to process orders and ensure a feasible plan.
- Co-ordinate with the warehouse department to ensure availability of all components for the production line and the shipment of materials to ensure market supply.
- Check component availability against the short-term plan.
- Plan and coordinate repackaging activities (REDO) and Scrap requests.
- SME for assigned tasks.
- Support projects with technical mastery.
- Own KPI reporting and coordinate relevant actions.
- Create analysis in support of projects or improvements and provide recommendations.
- Responsible for portfolio of commercial products, understanding all constraints and dependencies that impact planning activities.
Basic Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, or relevant experience.
- Approximately 2-5yrs Planning experience in an industrial environment.
- SAP ECC Planning Experience essential.
- GMP Knowledge.
- Familiar with S&OP process.
- Familiar with production planning concepts (Materials requirement planning, production scheduling).
Preferred Qualifications & Experience:
- Master’s Degree or APICS certification.
- Packaging experience.
- Min 5 years’ experience in an industrial environment.
- Understanding of Class A principals desirable.
- Planning system experience (Rapid Response RR).
- Experience in Pharma production (Fill-finish and packaging).
- QMTS
Knowledge/Skills
- Understands basics of quality systems and manufacturing processes.
- Effectively manages internal and external stakeholder relationships.
- Adapts communication style and works effectively across multiple functions and sites.
- Ability to communicate findings clearly and concisely and make recommendations.
- Maintains composure and direction in high pressure situations.
- Effectively navigates through ambiguity to resolve issues.
- Ability to work under minimal direction and independently develop solutions that are thorough, practical, and consistent with functional objectives.
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