INVENTORY PLANNER For Fortune 500 Food Manufacturing Company

DO YOU HAVE A BS DEGREE?

ARE YOU APICS CERTIFIED AND HAVE SAP EXPERIENCE?

Fortune 500 Food Company is seeking a talented, innovative professional for the position of Inventory Planner. This position offers an excellent compensation package!

This role is responsible to plan the production, repacking and deployment of finished goods for co-packers, re-packers, and company owned production facilities. Also responsible to ensure that goods are available to satisfy the prescribed service requirements established for our customers, both internal and external, while at the same time continuing to improve investment in working capital and minimizing the costs of manufacturing, storage, transportation, and obsolescence risk.

Job Responsibilities:

Develop cost effective production, re-packing, and deployment plans, in an SAP environment, supporting assigned product groups and ensuring all targeted customer service, inventory levels and costs are being met;

Ensure product has desired freshness. Diligently work to minimize "aged" inventory and product obsolescence;

Ensure that all requirements, especially materials, are accurately reflected in SAP in a timely manner;

Review and implement safety stock policy elements, accounting for lot sizes/cycle times, to reduce Total Delivered Economic Cost. Review and implement all deployment parameters, accounting for transit time, etc, to utilize the most cost effective means of warehousing and transportation;

Analyze short/long-range forecasts vs. capacities to identify and prevent service problems, inventory overstocks, plant inefficiencies and purchasing up charges;

Manage relationships with company owned plants, co-packers, and re-packers to facilitate elimination of obstacles to more efficient production cycles;

Represent Inventory Planning on new product development teams and coordinate Inventory Planning issues with Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, R&D, Purchasing and the production facilities.
REQUIREMENTS
At least 3 years experience in Inventory Planning/Materials Management;

Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision making skills;

Strong customer service orientation and communication skills;

Bachelor's Degree/APICS certification or pursuant to certification desired;

SAP experience desirable;

Commercial and Supply Chain knowledge/experience

Passion to drive continuous improvement;

Well developed communication skills;

CONTACT US TODAY FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS FIRST CLASS OPPORTUNITY!