Global Production Planner & Inventory Analyst

3M; Nevada (MO); On-site; USD 85,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

3M Center in Nevada, MO seeks a Production Planning Analyst to optimize scheduling, inventory management, and order planning. You will manage SKU data, backorders, and supplier communications while driving service levels across the supply chain.

The role emphasizes data-driven decision making, capacity monitoring, and CI/Lean Six Sigma projects. Candidates should have a bachelor's degree and relevant supply chain experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution or currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree to be completed within 12 months of hire date.
• Three (3) combined years of experience in supply chain planning, logistics, and/or manufacturing in a private, public, government or military environment.
• APICS certification or demonstrated progress toward completion.
• Experience leading Six Sigma Green Belt and/or other projects.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrating a high level of service and customer satisfaction via effective scheduling, inventory management, order planning and processing, SKU data management, backorder prevention, and maintaining supplier communication.
• Analyzing and managing working and non-working inventories in assigned businesses to maintain compliance and achieve inventory investment targets.
• Publishing and presenting service and inventory metrics, results, and gap analysis.
• Monitoring and reporting capacity requirements.
• Analyzing material flow parameters such as lot size, cycle frequency, replenishment interval, min/max, safety stock, and managing all supply chain SKU data.
• Utilizing Supply Chain tools and processes such as Factory Planner, COMS, GGSM, GDMR, IMES, Invento, Peoplesoft, Reporting and Analytics, BI, MS Office, SAP.
• Utilizing Continuous Improvement/Lean Six Sigma methodologies to identify and improve supply chain speed; Leading cross-functional Green Belt projects and implement process improvement projects; Reviewing and reporting on project progress

Skills

Supply chain planning

Logistics coordination

Manufacturing experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analysis

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

APICS certification or progress toward

Tools

SAP

Factory Planner

PeopleSoft

BI/Reporting

MS Excel

Job description

3M Center in Nevada, MO seeks a Production Planning Analyst to optimize scheduling, inventory management, and order planning. You will manage SKU data, backorders, and supplier communications while driving service levels across the supply chain.

The role emphasizes data-driven decision making, capacity monitoring, and CI/Lean Six Sigma projects. Candidates should have a bachelor's degree and relevant supply chain experience.