Planning Supervisor

Responsibilities include:

• Collaborate daily with operations management, purchasing, logistics, and shop supervision to set and meet production goals.
• Provide leadership and day to day supervision to a small team of buyer-planners.
• Develop and communicate lead times for new order and committed ship dates to the sales organization based upon uncommitted material and availability of capacity.
• Review and analyze available capacity.  Identify areas of risk to Operations Management.
• Based upon MRP signals and kanbans to release work orders to the production floor to support build plans.
• Work with other systems team members, manufacturing engineers, quality engineers, and manufacturing supervisors to understand the needs of both internal and external customers.
• Monitor actual output versus the Master Production Plan.  Identify gaps and drive solutions.
• Identify improvements and solutions to planning processes and tools.
• Work closely with warehouse management to analyze and resolve inventory discrepancies.
• Facilitate the timely closure of work orders and assist in resolving material issue transactions.
• Assist in New Product Introduction teams to plan NPI build capacity and materials readiness.
• Obtain quotes, select suppliers, award purchase orders and administer MRP or Kanban action items that support the systems product lines production schedule.
• Perform other duties as necessary to support meeting the systems operations team goals.