Production Planning Coordinator

Based on properly authorized customer demand, analyze materials and capacity requirements and communicate constraints to the Ops manager and Sales team

Set priorities for the team to ensure task completion; coordinate work activities with other supervisors

Coordinate the business planning process (S&OP process) involving all the business functions (Sales, Customer Service, Product Development, Production, Warehouse & Shipping, Finance ) to ensure excellent customer service at optimized cost

Be primarily responsible for capacity planning for the designated product line, coordinates with the operations teams to develop robust supply strategies that will drive improvement in service and cost

Work with regional Supply Chain Planning teams and the country Demand Planning contacts (who will be charged with capturing and aggregating demand information from the country commercial organizations)

Continuously monitor and check actual performance of the designated product line vs. objectives via weekly/monthly report, prepares gap analysis and corrective action

Initiate and coordinate special Lean/Sigma and Kaizen projects (e.g. Inventory Reduction, Vendor Managed Inventory ) in the designated product line(s)