Capacity Planner

Capacity & Supply Planner

The Capacity & Supply Planner position is responsible for all product deployment and forecasting activities associated with customers and operations. The Capacity & Supply Planner creates and supports product replenishments, kitting production, and product rollouts network wide. Leveraging business intelligence, production/capacity plans, and customer insights, the Capacity & Supply Planner is the integration point into the customer and operations team. Basic production scheduling and short-term forecast modeling are the responsibility of this position.

This position supports the monthly consensus forecasting process and is a key contributor to the monthly SIOP process.

Responsibilities:

• Develops a rolling production schedule for kitting initiatives, support account / customer driven programing, proper work requisitions, and with focus on WIP management and cost to serve.

• Maintains strong relationships and works closely and collaborates with account teams, kitting team, operations team and Customer to support requirements around kitting initiatives.

• Will support and drive replenishments and short-term product deployment leveraging statistical modeling such as pull-replenishment at the distribution level.

• Collaborates with SIOP, executive leadership, finance, procurement, account, demand planner, and Warehouse teams to ensure that all demand plans are in alignment from a distribution-level perspective.

• Delivers the confirmed unconstrained unit forecast at the appropriate level to the supply planning and purchasing / procurement.

• Works closely with the Demand planning, account, kitting and purchasing teams to understand supply issues and potential mitigation issues.

• Look at opportunities to gain efficiencies, additional scale, and approach operation with a continuous improvement mindset.

• Manage and maintain forecasting and demand planning systems and software.

• Prepare and maintain relevant reports pertaining to demand planning process Key Results:

• Supports Distribution inventory deployment through replenishment recommendations and drive SLAs with kitting production.

• Strong relationships among account, procurement, finance, capacity / supply planners, which will lead to effective knowledge sharing and an optimal consensus forecast to facilitate the decision-making process.

• Refined system and methods to continually improve replenishment & kitting deployment to support customer demand.

• Execute with excellence in the area of customer replenishment and feedback to the Supply Chain group the opportunities and risks regarding customer replenishment performance metrics.