Strategic Demand & Inventory Planner (SAP)

Lehigh Heavy Forge Corporation; Elmore (OH); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Materion Corporation is seeking a hands-on planner to develop and execute demand, production and inventory plans, collaborating with Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing, Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, Customer Service and Outside Vendors.

This role focuses on balancing resources, meeting customer due dates, and maintaining inventory accuracy while monitoring WIP, backorders and capacity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (4 Year) and at least 1 year of planning/scheduling experience within a manufacturing environment utilizing an ERP based software.
• A Bachelor's degree specific to Supply Chain Management.
• A minimum of 5 years of manufacturing experience in the specialty metals industry with direct hands on experience with SAP software.

Responsibilities

• Establish production and inventory plans that balances production resources, supports customer requirements and meets company inventory objectives.
• Monitors assigned inventories and related material movements, reporting, material storage and inventory accuracy.
• Maintains new sales and transport order demand to ensure achievable due dates based on current loading and capacity availability.
• Monitors and maintains all production orders and/or firm planned requirements from creation through completion.
• Manages WIP and scrap at assigned outside vendors to ensure the timely completion of orders and desired priorities are achieved
• Monitors backorders daily and implements actions to resolve the backorders if possible.
• Reviews work center loading versus available capacity with manufacturing to identify overloading situations that may need to be addressed.

Skills

SAP

ERP systems

Production planning

Inventory management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree (4 Year) in a related field

Bachelor's degree specific to Supply Chain Management

Minimum 5 years manufacturing experience in specialty metals

Tools

SAP software

Job description

Materion Corporation is seeking a hands-on planner to develop and execute demand, production and inventory plans, collaborating with Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing, Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, Customer Service and Outside Vendors.

This role focuses on balancing resources, meeting customer due dates, and maintaining inventory accuracy while monitoring WIP, backorders and capacity.