Essential Duties & Responsibilities
• Distribution Center Planned Order Release.
• Manage DC Exception Messages.
• Maintain Master Data and Item attributes.
• Excess & Obsolete review & update blank reason codes.
• EOL Product Management.
• Analyze inventory levels & product demand to recommend SS levels.
• Maintenance & management of master data & order modifiers for MPS planned items.
• Review BP-ICU Internal SO pegged to end SO report to determine shipping priorities & to coordinate production priorities with MSes.
• Communicate late supply to demand planning for sales over FCST orders.
• Make inventory deployment decisions based on products and customer orders.
• Review DC contract / portal inventory & SS requirements.
• Work with and / or provide service feedback to demand planning for FCST performance at the DC.
• Make deployment and logistics decisions for material leaving their plant and DCs (shipping method, shipping location flipping orders).
• Accountable to performance KPIs in the assigned DCs:
o Past due customer orders
o Past due IOs
o Count of line orders late
o SS performance (weeks of supply)
o E&O
o Inventory Turns
o Service levels
• Coordinating with site production planning for firm work order releases (weekly).
• Release of internal orders for distribution centers.
• Update of estimated ship dates on sales orders for distribution centers.
• External sales order risk mitigation and reason code updates for distribution centers (expedites, re-sourcing, etc.).
• Identify and help to resolve material shortages, capacity constraints, operational bottlenecks, and backlog.
• Works with site planning and purchasing on weekly and monthly operations and service KPIs.
• Works with marketing on product life cycles and SKU rationalization.
• Interfaces to S&OP for supply planning process.
• Work on special assignments as they arise.
Knowledge & Skills
• Familiar with MPS and production planning and execution strategies (run rate planning, make to order, make to stock, make to forecast, configure to order, etc.)
• Familiar with managing and setting inventory planning strategies (safety stock, MIN MAX, DOS, MOQ, etc.)
Minimum Qualifications, Education & Experience
• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Bachelor’s degree with Supply Chain, Business, or relevant field of studies from an accredited college or university is required.
• 1-3 years of Supply Chain experience.
• Familiar with MPS and production planning and execution strategies
• Familiar with managing and setting inventory planning strategies (safety stock, MIN MAX, DOS, MOQ, etc.)
• Familiar with managing inventory and requirements at a distribution center.
• APICS certification preferred.
