IBP Supply Manager - The Toro Company

ttc; BLOOMINGTON (MN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Toro Company, a Minnesota-based leader in landscape equipment, seeks an experienced Demand Planning professional to balance supply and demand across multiple sites. You will partner with sales, marketing, and ISC teams to optimize inventory, plans, and capacity over a 24-36 month horizon.

Responsibilities include leading SIOP processes, maintaining planning data, and driving data-based decisions with cross-functional leadership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in Demand Planning, Master Scheduling and production scheduling, Inventory management and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Balance demand and supply through scenario planning and optimize inventory.
• Collaborate with sales and marketing to stabilize schedules and meet customer demand.
• Lead ISC planning strategies for manufacturing sites and drive long-range planning.
• Maintain capacity data and load 36-month plans in planning tools.
• Produce monthly production volume plans using forecasts, inventory and orders.
• Track order progression to ensure on-time fulfillment.
• Document and maintain standard processes and best practices.

Skills

Strong communication skills

English fluent

Customer oriented

Data-driven decision making

Strategic thinking

Education

Master's degree desirable in Business / Supply Chain / Industrial Engineering

Tools

SAP

Excel

Job description

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of a school/employment or any other visa, regardless of expiration date, now or in the future.

Who Are We?

The Toro Company is a homegrown, Minnesota-based company that has been in business since 1914. We pride ourselves on providing world-class equipment to help maintain the environment that we love, while putting an emphasis on giving back to the communities that surround us. From residential lawns and gardens, to venues such as St Andrews Links and Target Field, we are a company with a global footprint and a passion for helping people beautify whatever landscape they may be in. With 100 years of operation under our belt and a healthy tenure, come find out what makes The Toro Company the best place in the Twin Cities to build a career.

What Will You Do?

• Responsible for scenario planning, provide a thorough analysis to balance demand and supply while optimizing inventory and minimizing the impact of demand volatility or suggest action plans to mitigate.
• Create valuable connections with sales and marketing teams in order to have a stable schedule and satisfy customer demands helping ISC achieve their goals and strategic initiatives.
• Create and maintain time fences by product to design supply chain per product or division.
• Leading the ISC planning strategies for the manufacturing sites schedule.
• Develop class A standard processes for long range planning exercises as well as Integrated Tactical planning to identify capacity gaps, achieve inventory targets and load 36 month plan into the planning tools for the division and region assigned.
• Provide capacity line data and maintain data bases for capacity at the sites in order to work with IBP Data management team in order to keep systems updated.
• Provides monthly production volume planning using the business forecast, inventory position, actual customer orders, and defined capacity parameters. Provides monthly sales fulfillment projection to the division.
• Actively tracks order progression to assure schedule attainment.
• Supervises production control planners ensuring scheduling optimization and productivity of production lines.
• Document, update and maintain standard processes and best practices in place.
• Be the main connection for escalations and demand changes as well as establishing a link between Demand and ISC to translate customer requirements into ISC key inputs.
• Analyze daily demand intelligence against forecasts and recommend proactive inventory and scheduling actions to address at the division level.
• Prepare information per division and sites to input in monthly operations reviews for forecast with the Executive Leadership team.
• Leverage Industry data and IBPA planning tool to generate both near and long term forecasts.
• Load 24 month SAP demand plan for requirement planning and IBPA to match systems.

What Do You Need?

• Degree in Business, Supply chain, Import-Export and Inventory management or Industrial Engineering (Master's degree desirable).
• 5+ years experience in Demand Planning, Master Scheduling and production scheduling, Inventory management and analytics.
• SAP knowledge is a must.
• Experience in leading projects, plant transfers and new product introduction.
• Expertise leading a cross-functional SIOP process; proficiency in demand forecasting, capacity, supply, and inventory planning.
• APICS certification desirable.
• Ability to clearly present build plans, create templates for high level executives and plant leadership.
• Strategic thinking and decision making with strong analytical skills.
• Solid understanding of supply chain planning systems, SAP, understanding of concepts of planning, inventory, production plans, supply and demand, Sales and Marketing, Inventory management and distribution centers.
• Optimal Excel skills, data management and analytical skills to drive results and assumptions from data.

Skills:

• Strong communication skills, English fluent, customer oriented, able to be objective and persuasive to drive high level leadership changes and strategies, strong analytical skills, strategic, problem solver, self-driven and focused on data quality and accuracy, able to train and influence changes in data and production plan.

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