Material Planner - Supply Chain
Material Planner - Supply Chain
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Job Description
Griffith Foods is a global manufacturer of food products. We provide a wide range of taste and texture components for food industry customers throughout the world. Our products include seasoning blends dry mixes coating systems dough blends crumbs flavors sauces and food bases that are used in an extensive variety of application from snack foods and processed meat and poultry to ready meals. Our customers include food processors restaurant operators and grocery retailers. While our name may not be familiar to consumers our products are key components of foods offered by many of the worlds bestknown companies.
Summary: To plan and maintain proper inventory levels of purchased materials to support desired Service level and net working capital guidelines. To secure the arrival of all our required raw materials on time and in full (OTIF) in accordance and supporting demand and production schedule.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
Planning
- Read and analyze MRP requirements in order to firm Purchase Orders.
- Maintain optimal raw material inventory levels through the correct use of Planning and inventory Parameters.
- Participate in the periodic revision of planning and inventory parameters (safety stock lead time minimum order quantity maximum order quantity etc.
- Active and formal communication with the Scheduling department to exchange information on open orders delivery status to fulfill the production schedule compliance.
- Attend and execute internal customers urgencies in demand variations by expediting raw materials.
- Avoid raw material shortages that affect production schedule.
- Expedite and Escalate material issues to proper teams
Vendor Interaction and Management
- Develop Supply agreements for selected purchasing categories along with purchasing team and vendors to ensure the Supplier performance (OTIF) tandem activity with purchasing team.
- Communication with vendors about service level performance delays and needs of corrective action plans on raw materials claims and rejections tandem activity with purchasing team.
- Coleader in the Vendor Evaluation Process to analyze integrate and support Suppliers performances indicator tandem activity with purchasing team.
Other Related Activities
- Participate in the Sales and Operations Planning Meeting (S&OP) focus on RM availability and potential stock out risks.
- Periodically review at risk/slow moving inventory to uncover inventory that may expire before being used and suggest a disposition.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree Supply Chain related.
- 35 years experience in Supply Chain environment.
- APICS/ CPIM certification preferred
- Must have prior ERP & MRP experience preferably in the food industry.
- Strong analytical skills and a demonstrated ability to make decisions with imperfect information coupled with the ability to develop and adhere to strong processes.
- Possess a positive and proactive approach to problems and opportunities.
- Communicate effectively.
- Negotiation skills.
- Must be computer literate and proficient in MS Excel.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Griffith Foods believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity. Griffith Foods does not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of the following actual or perceived characteristics: race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression pregnancy breastfeeding or related medical condition national origin ancestry citizenship age physical or mental disability genetic characteristic or information AIDS or HIV status order of protection status marital status military or veteran status unfavorable discharge from military service or any other status protected by federal state or local law. Equal employment opportunity will be extended to all persons in all aspect of the employeremployee relationship including recruitment hiring participation in benefit programs training promotion transfer discipline layoff recall and termination.
In carrying out our commitment to equal employment opportunity Griffith Foods will make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship safety and/or health risk. Applicants and employees requiring reasonable accommodations must notify Human Resources.
Other details
- Job FamilySupply Chain
- Job FunctionOperations
- Pay TypeSalary
- Min Hiring Rate$57000.00
- Max Hiring Rate$83000.00
Employment Type
Full-Time
