Supply Chain Planner

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**Key Duties**:
**Main Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Create and optimise min-max stock levels for the international warehouse taking into consideration the annual budget, seasonal demand and re-forecasts. Review and approve the proposed min-max stock levels quarterly for the organisation
- Review customer demand based on orders received and call offs to ensure the inventory is in place to support monthly sales forecasts and meet customer demand, whilst maintaining optimum stock levels, utilising latest sales and order book information
- Create sub contract shipments and PO’s on a monthly basis, ensuring all data is complete and accurate
- Manage the intercompany shipments between the UK and the USA ensuring all orders in both systems match
- Ensure all direct to customer shipments from the UK are receipted into the USA and shipped out of the USA matching the corresponding PO’s
- In conjunction with the USA planner, monitor the capability of the site to meet customer demand and major future new business opportunities
- Produce, review, and report on KPI’s for visibility of Supply Chain performance
- Prepare monthly reports and review with the UK and the USA (volume & value)
- Monitor production output versus required expectations
- Plan and manage customer pools from purchase to close out
- Organise and deliver purchasing of pool buybacks

**Customer Service Related**
- Daily assistance of order pipeline to ensure order fulfilment
- Shared responsibility for improvement and reporting of OTIF
- Assistance with UK CSE and UK Warehouse Manager and Despatch to ensure orders are despatched on time
- Inform the USA CSE’s of availability of stock for the weekly container plan and assistance where necessary with liaising with Despatch to make sure the containers are optimised to acceptable levels before shipping
- Confirmation of expected lead times for customer quotations and general lead time requirements received from CSE’s and Sales
- Provide management information to help support the creation of OTIF for start of week report
- Month end closure, to ensure all sales are collated for the US business to provide a group sales result for the business
- Support for Senior Global Supply Chain Planner (absences, holidays etc)