Job Description:

SUMMARY: Provides leadership, coaching and mentoring to the planning team, with focus on production planning scale up and manufacturing activities associated with the global corporate SIOP. Responsible for coordinating planning materials required to manufacture and scheduling activities to support one or more product lines.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSABILITIES including but not limited to the following:

Business Essentials

Responsible for ensuring personal and company compliance with local and company regulations, policies and procedures for Health, Safety and Environmental compliance. Participates and leads discussion with costumers around delivery schedules. Analyzes, recommends and implements processes and procedures to provide accurate results on the inventory control of raw and/or any other materials. Develop strategic objectives that focus on areas of quality, cost, flexibility, productivity and speed. Demonstrate the ability to consistently deliver products and services to meet customer needs. Influence junior peers on continuous process improvement as an accepted way of life in business. Accurately identify risks that affect supply, transformation, delivery and customer demand and set mitigation plans independently. Visualize the total process and aid in locating problem areas using process mapping, quality improvement and visualization tools to locate, quantify and correct root causes of problems.

Execution, scheduling and control

Considered the subject matter expert in the APS system with Kinaxis-Rapid Response. Implement and determine the appropriate scheduling technique to control capacity at work centers: Finite scheduling, Infinite scheduling, Forward scheduling, Backward scheduling to ensure sufficient capacity to implement MRP by using CRP. Recommends and implement measures to improve production control methods. Partnering with manufacturing and materials management teams to meet/agree build plans thru the SIOP process. Expert in calculations for efficiency, utilization and productivity.

Enterprise resources planning (ERP)

Cooperate in the alignment of the materials management strategy with the business strategies driving sales, marketing, finance and manufacturing using Kinaxis-Rapid Response and SIOP. Determine the need for capacity to address expected demand, execute the resulting plans, and update planning and financial information to reflect the results. Understand output of materials requirement planning (MRP), capacity management and advanced planning system technologies. Be capable of discussing and demonstrating the MRP gross-to-net explosion process while ̥̥have knowledge of planning utilizing action messaging, have knowledge of planning time fences in MRP, be capable of defining the types of replenishment orders found in the MRP grid, be capable of working with pegged requirements in MRP, know how to perform order rescheduling in MRP , understand the various MRP output reports, know when MRP is to be generate, have knowledge of detail capacity planning (CRP), have detailed knowledge of the CRP components (work centers, labor and machines, routings, setup times, run, standards and move times) necessary to run CRP. Understand advanced planning systems relationships to MRP planning systems. Promote the usage of the EPICOR/APS tools over manual/isolated spreadsheets.

Supply Chain & Inventory Management

Understand that supply chain management spans all movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory and finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption. Demonstrate the ability to visualize the total process and aid in locating problem areas using process mapping, quality improvement and visualization tools to locate, quantify and correct root causes of problems. Perform periodic evaluations to maintain processes by gathering pertinent information such as problem symptoms from knowledgeable sources and carrying these through to the problems, potential causes and root causes of the problem. Active involvement in departmental inventory management strategies and objectives. Know how to apply trade-off analysis to balance requirements of demand and supply. Understand the different classes of inventory (raw materials, WIP, finished goods, MRO, service parts, damaged and obsolete). Understand the difference between independent and dependent demand inventory. Along with the Purchasing team shall lead activities to balance demand and supply while keeping a healthy level of inventory for the process/products owned

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: Bachelor´s degree with 6+ years of related experience and/or training.

Proficient personal computer skills including electronic mail, record keeping, routine database activity, word processing, spreadsheet and graphics.

OTHER SKILLS and ABILITIES:   

• Ability to work in a self-managed work team environment. Ability to work different work schedules. Advanced level in written and oral English communication skills required.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• A seasoned, experienced professional with wide-ranging experience and expertise in a specialized field. Applies comprehensive knowledge of a particular field to resolve complex issues in creative ways. Full knowledge of other related disciplines. Uses in-depth knowledge of business unit functions and cross group dependencies/relationships. Is recognized as an expert in the work group.
• Develops solutions to diverse business problems of high complexity which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity. Analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors. Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Has specialized knowledge of various alternatives and their impact on the business. Challenges are frequently unique and solutions may serve as precedent for future decisions.
• Serves as a consultant to management and special external spokesperson for the organization on major matters pertaining to its policies, projects, or objectives. Uses diplomacy and tact to diffuse high tension situations, particularly with senior level internal and external contacts. Occasionally escalates the most serious issues to manager.