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Title**:Production Planner / SVSBDP Filtration (Services / Beneficiation and Dewatering Products - Filtration)**2.
Job Statement**: The position assures the leadership of planning and inventory control, coordination of the process and activities carried out in the production area, maintaining the production planning, and optimizing the resources in a schedule to ensure the fulfillment of order delivery to the end customer or internal customers.**3.
Job Duties and Responsibilities**:- Develop and implement production plans, schedules, and capacity requirements using different tools (i.E., SAP planning tables, Gantt chart, and MS Office tools) to meet customer demand and optimize production efficiency, collaborate whit operations, and procurement teams to align production plans whit demand forecast and inventory levels.
- Lead daily operations meetings, involving all supply chain areas (procurement, operations, engineering, etc.,) according to the management system.- Coordinate and organize special meetings when required to manage rush cases, breakdown orders, whit the required areas around the supply chain.- Monitor and maintain optimal inventory levels by analyzing sales trends, production capacity, and lead times.- Keep updated the planning tools to allow the reports to run (KPI's).
Production backlog, backlog hours, maintain the work centers and capabilities setup in SAP to achieve the objectives.- Manage the coordination of production according to the order demands (i.E., stock materials, planned orders, production orders and others).- Confirmation of productions dates and coordination of the process according to the different scenarios of the orders (ETO engineer to order, MTO make to order, MTS make to stock).- Have a complete view and communication from mold assembly area to request and use the inventory information from them for the production planning and identify critical mold parts, productivity solutions and investments.- Run proper reports to analyze the production planning schedule, strategic planning lead times, inventory level, data base maintenance and constant update of procedures of the latest management system.- Collaborate with sales/distribution centers and product line teams to gather date and inputs for accurate demand forecasting.- Create and manage production schedules to ensure on time delivery and efficient utilization of resources.- Collaborate with procurement, logistics, and suppliers to ensure timely availability of raw materials, components and finished goods.- Track and analyze key performance indicators (KPI's) such as production output, on time delivery, inventory turnover, and inventory value.- Generate reports and provide insights to management of production and inventory performance.
Identify opportunities for process improvement and cost optimization in production planning and inventory control