Production Planner | SAP & Supply Chain Optimization

Knorr Bremse Group; Mexico; Hybrid; PHP 4,260,000 - 6,086,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Vacation & Holiday Paid Time Off

Life insurance

Educational assistance program

Wellness program

Gym

Job summary

Bendix is seeking a Production Planner to translate demand into executable production plans, coordinating with Customer Service, Production, Purchasing, and Logistics to ensure material availability and on-time delivery.

The role owns end-to-end planning activities, including scheduling, inventory management, capacity analysis, and continuous improvement within SAP environments. Requires 5+ years in production planning in manufacturing.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in production planning or supply chain roles.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment required.
• Experience managing supplier-related material constraints and recovery plans preferred.
• APICS/ASCM certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop short-, medium-, and long-term production schedules aligned with customer demand, capacity constraints, and inventory targets.
• Convert demand requirements into executable production plans and manufacturing orders.
• Balance customer requirements, production capacity, labor availability, and material constraints to optimize plant performance.
• Drive schedule adherence and production order fill rate performance.
• Monitor capacity utilization and identify opportunities to improve throughput and resource efficiency.
• Support SIOP, forecasting, and demand review processes.
• Monitor inventory levels, safety stock strategies, excess and obsolete inventory, and inventory turns.
• Review component shortages and develop mitigation plans to avoid production disruptions.
• Manage production order releases, prioritization, and scheduling activities within SAP.
• Perform ATP reviews, shortage analysis, and production readiness assessments.
• Coordinate engineering changes, PPAP implementation, prototype launches, and BOM updates.
• Lead root cause investigations for shortages, backlog, inventory discrepancies, schedule misses, and delivery failures.

Skills

SAP ERP/MRP

Microsoft Excel

Production scheduling

Capacity planning

Inventory management

MRP

Data analysis

Forecasting

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, or related field

APICS/ASCM certification preferred

Tools

SAP ERP

MS Excel

Job description

Bendix is seeking a Production Planner to translate demand into executable production plans, coordinating with Customer Service, Production, Purchasing, and Logistics to ensure material availability and on-time delivery.

The role owns end-to-end planning activities, including scheduling, inventory management, capacity analysis, and continuous improvement within SAP environments. Requires 5+ years in production planning in manufacturing.