Production Planner

General Summary

How you’ll help us connect the world

• Using corporate ERP system (SAP), create material inventory/purchasing plans, capacity plans, based on customer forecasts, current sales, seasonal trends and information received from sales to reduce response time to Customer demands and increase market share.
• Maintain this forecast in response to the following situations:
• availability and lead-time of components
• market forces
• increased/reduced demand
• global corporate inventory policy
• weekly exception report

• Work with Local and Global procurement teams to resolve any supply issues resulting in delay to serve customer.
• Direct the control processes including measurement of key performance indicators and recommended actions over the supply chain, planning procedures, manufacturing and distribution. These include metrics for customer service, supply chain costs, and working capital.
• Identifies changes in capacity or material availability to sales. Elevates issues to management which negatively impacts the MPS, and hence availability to customer
• Responsible for applying best material availability dates to Sales Orders and Quotations by analyzing the Bill of Material and Plant Capacity.
• Use inventory management tools to improve turns and reduce non-moving inventory. Expect analytical skills to monitor and escalate planning issues.
• Expedite supplier materials to meet master schedule needs, Liaising with Shipping Agents regarding imports of Air and Ocean Freight, providing VAT Deferment Authorization, delivery schedules and requests.
• Liaise with counterparts at other locations to reduce response time to customers who require high value/low usage components within a short lead times
• Manages work orders from Master Production Schedule to various productions to ensure product availability in line with customer orders.
• Collaborate with other functional areas to improve planning processes, including Manufacturing, Customer Care, Engineering, Logistics, Purchasing, and Product Line Management.
• Also responsible for investigating any discrepancies, utilizing ERP systems, around accuracy of inventory (raw, WIP, finished goods), shipments, returns, and invoices
• Responsible for investigating possible alternative uses of excess and slow moving stock in order to reduce and eliminate this specific area of inventory and optimize usage of material.

Required Qualification for Consideration

Education

Work Experience

• 5–8 years of experience in planning and production within a high-volume, high-mix manufacturing environment.
• Minimum 3 years of direct collaboration with vendors and planners at sister facilities to acquire parts and meet production needs—preferably in fiber cable components.
• At least 2 years of hands-on experience with

  SAP/ERP systems

  in material planning.

You’ll excite us if you have

Technical & IT Skills

• Demonstrable knowledge of a modern ERP system—ideally SAP—including strong understanding of MPS/MRP.
• Strong PC skills (MS Office) and significant experience with ERP and reporting tools; SAP preferred.
• Strong IT skills with a zeal to learn new operating/reporting processes.

Interpersonal & Professional Competencies:

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with sales teams, suppliers, and production teams.
• Accurate, decisive, data-driven, and able to multitask in a complex, tight-schedule environment.
• Must have very good communication skills in English.