Production Planner

**PRODUCTION PLANNER - TEMP (POSSIBLE VIEW TO PERM)**

**MALDON**

This role is to oversee the safety, coordination and effective running of planning and inventory operations. Leading the development and implementation of systems, processes and training whilst liaising with other supply chain and manufacturing departmentsto achieve customer satisfaction.

Support the Supply Chain Supervisor with development projects and reporting tasks.

This role demands strong analytical skills, business acumen, and interpersonal skills, this will allow you to build and maintain relationships with commercial colleagues, as well as other internal stakeholders.
- Manage MRP reporting for Manufactured and Raw Material SKU's ensuring stock keeping unit information and item card are updated (ROP's/ROQ's)
- Campaign Plan Analysis, highlighting requirements for additional labour to meet customer demand.
- Schedule production of MTS SKU's replenishment, maximising production efficinecies.
- Schedule production of MTO SKU's achieveing the customers requested delivery requirement.
- Create production job packs, inventory picks and production putaways.
- Monitor production updates to acurately update the planning tool, it's data base and ERP system.
- Maintain updated SKU List (Kept / Not Kept SKU's)
- Analyse historical data and monitor inventory levels of MTS SKU's based on historical sales and commercial forecasts, proposing changes to current stock holding levels with commercial team.
- Ensure agreed stock holding levels are achieved and maintained.
- Monitor plan adherence metrics, including accuracy of job completion times.
- Support Finance and Production team to meet monthly capacity recovery targets.
- Report stock level attainment (did we achieve what we planned).
- Report stock level effectiveness (was it the right quantity to support actual sales).
- Aged inventory reporting and actions.
- Ensuring SOP's are up-to-date, loaded into BMS.
- Measuring and monitoring daily KPI's and tracking on up-to-date visual management boards.
- Presenting data and improvement opportunities for the departments.
- Support with Stock takes

Experience/Skills:

- Experience within manufacturing planning
- Excellent Communication skills
- Able to work well under pressure and manage time to meet deadlines
- Analytical skills
- Competent IT skills
- Initiative - able to identify issues and develop solutions