Planning & Distribution Supervisor

Summary/Purpose:  In collaboration with the Plant Manager, they will develop the production plan to optimize the most cost-effective production plan (make to order, build to forecast/slit to order) maintaining the targeted customer service level and balancing inventory cost against production expense.  This position will collaborate closely with Purchasing to best meet raw material needs.

Essential Job Duties:

1. Work with Management team to migrate materials and production planning to planning system.
2. Ensures that all plant production schedules are completed, published, and executed per departmental guidelines.
3. Supervise material planner.
4. Utilize system requirements to review and research Order Action daily, and Material Requirements on a bi-weekly basis. Place routine material requisitions to support production needs.
5. Establish lead-time criteria and maintain the planning system for all material related to master data.
6. Analyze and maintain appropriate inventory levels as set by the Plant Manager to optimize customer service while minimizing investment.

• Confirm that material orders have been placed and meet the requirement dates or are rescheduled to an agreed upon delivery.
• Cycle Count all inventory items.
• Submit cycle counts to Finance and Plant Manager
• Investigate and provide feedback on high or low usage items.
• Receive all inbound materials and maintain logs.
• Plan for increases or decreases in volume with the operations team
• Perform various weekly inventory audits on inventoried materials.
• Investigate inventory discrepancies with the Plant Manager and and maintain vendor, production, and inventory metrics.

7.  Establish and maintain vendor, production, and inventory metrics.

8.  Promotes worker safety by:

1. 1. Actively assesses activities on a constant basis to ensure no unsafe actions or results will occur.
   2. Stressing safe working practices as a condition of employment to associates.
   3. Assisting in audits of employee behaviors to ensure compliance with safety rules and guidelines, as well as housekeeping audits and surveys.
   4. Participating actively on the plant-wide safety team.
   5. Ensuring the housekeeping in the immediate and surrounding work area is maintained or improved to the highest level possible.

9.  Ensures Quality products and processes are maintained by:

1. Understanding and supporting both quality policies and the Quality System.
2. Performing work at a level that ensures the quality of the work of this position meets or exceeds internal and external customer specifications.
3. Identifying and correcting, if possible, any identified quality issues both in the department and plant as a whole.
4. Participating in system or quality-based training provided by the company or recommended by the company.

10. Actively participates in the continuous improvement process (CIP) by:

1. Identifying and addressing any opportunities to reduce cost, improve product/process and/or improve overall operations.
2. Participating in CIP teams to eliminate problems, streamline operations or other areas as defined by management.
3. Participating in CIP training and exercises designed to expand the potential for continuous improvement.

Job Qualifications, Equipment and/or Experience:

Ability to lead, motivate, select, train and instruct personnel.  Good interpersonal, organizational and communication skills. Must demonstrate strong decision-making skills, sound judgment and the ability to adapt to a rapidly changing work environment.  B.B.A./B.S. degree in a business-related field; advanced degree in Supply or Logistics preferred and 5+ years of experience in a manufacturing planning and scheduling role.  Must have knowledge of cGMP’s and FDA regulatory guidelines.  Must have a great deal of integrity, interpersonal skills, initiative and a self-starter committed to finding process improvements.  Must be a self-motivated problem solver who will drive projects and people.