Demand Planner

The Planet Group; Bedford (MA); On-site; USD 55,104 - 66,124; Part time

Job summary

A leading production firm in Massachusetts is seeking a Demand Planner. The ideal candidate will have over 2 years of experience in production planning and knowledge of Oracle MRP. Responsibilities include managing production schedules, collaborating across various departments, and analyzing inventory. This contract position is vital in supporting customer demand and ensuring efficient production operations.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in production planning/demand planning.
• Experience in the manufacturing industry.
• APICS certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for complex fulfillment and production plans.
• Participate in system or process improvement initiatives.
• Review and revise production plans as required.
• Act as a liaison between departments to communicate issues.
• Analyze production plans and inventory reports.

Skills

Production planning

Demand planning

Oracle MRP

Tools

Oracle

Job description

Job title

Demand Planner

Contract

Pay rate: $40-48/hr

Summary

The Demand Planner will partner with Customer Care, Sales, Product Management and Operations management to determine appropriate production schedules that best meet customer and sales demand. This position also serves as the subject matter expert on how to best utilize the Oracle MRP to increase the efficiency and accuracy of the production schedule.

The Demand Planner considers many factors such as raw material availability, production line capacity, and standard lead times promised to customers, on time delivery, and emergent needs of the business both from a sales operations and production operations perspective. The Demand Planner is the direct interface to the sales function that translates the Sales, Inventory, Operations, and Production (SIOP) forecast input into a production operations schedule for factory planning purposes. They also work directly with the Buyers to decide how much inventory to keep on hand that maximizes just in time material flow, limits factory changeovers and inefficiencies.

Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for complex fulfillment and production plans
• Participate in system or process improvement initiatives to ensure the function has the best tools
• Review and revise production and fulfillment plans as required by changes in the manufacturing schedules
• Act as a liaison between Manufacturing, Customer Care, Sales and Product Management, communicating and troubleshooting issues, problems, and concerns
• Analyzes production plans and inventory reports, availability / requirements for long lead time items to provide production guidance to the manufacturing sites
• Assist in the expediting finished goods, when necessary, to support customer order fulfillment
• Recommend and implement production and transportation actions when products are in out-of-stock or allocation situations
• Partners with management/departments on matters related to production or fulfillment planning
• Utilize Oracle to view material movements, quantities on order, and the current balance on hand to ensure materials needed by the manufacturing plants are available and use this information to analyze trends and plan for future orders
• Must maintain a well-balanced focus between external and internal customer requirements

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in production planning/demand planning
• Manufacturing industry
• Oracle
• Exposure to working with more than one facility (Plus)
• Experience working with the master planning/master scheduling/forecasting side (Plus)
• Experience building a component plan (Plus)
• Prior work from a complex organization (Plus)
• American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) certification (Plus)

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Supply Chain

Industries

• Manufacturing