Summary

The Supply Chain Planner is responsible for maintaining proper inventory to fulfill demand requirements, at a Liberty, DC and SKU level. This may include the following: purchasing full goods, providing sales support to other bottlers, performing branch replenishment activities as well as all functions related to production sequencing in the manufacturing centers.

Responsibilities

• Maintain proper full goods inventory levels for assigned area/locations utilizing BY Planning Modules; and achieving In-Stock objectives.
• Create replenishment loads (purchased or DRP) that are optimized to minimize logistical costs.
• Work with the Demand team, DC’s and operations teams to support the rollout of new products, promotional packaging, and holiday inventory planning on purchased products.
• Participate in the review of inventory levels and warehouse capacity, initiate and coordinate necessary product movements to prevent out of stocks and out of date issues as well as overstock/warehouse capacity challenges; maintain DOS as determined by individual objectives
• Report on close dated inventory and work to reduce Breakage, Damage and Loss (BDL) due to product age.
• Prepare and sequence Production schedules for the following weeks. Stay in constant communications with assigned plants to ensure execution of the schedule.
• Participate in weekly conference calls to communicate key product information across the business unit
• Manage vendors' brands and lead times to maintain proper inventory levels
• Maintain and update daily the SAP release/schedule production orders for each assigned plant.
• Maintain PP (production sequencing) and MRP (material requirement planning) profiles to ensure the integrity of the BY Production and Capacity Modules are fully-utilized.
• Knowledge of SAP/ECC/BY-Sequencing production environment to analyze systems suggested production requirements for reasonableness.
• Sequence flavors and packages to maximize efficiencies while minimizing operating costs.
• Review and analyze line capacity to determine if alternative sourcing is required - If capacity issue exists, coordinate within the department to ensure consistent supply.
• Conduct weekly production schedule meetings with respective Production Centers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (Business Administration/Management, or equivalent) 3 to 5 years previous production planning, industrial engineering, or analytical experience
• Must have strong analytical skills and understand advanced Mathematical concepts.
• Must have knowledge of Microsoft office.
• Must have knowledge of ERP systems (SAP, BY)
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Must have strong written and verbal communication skills.