Strategic Supply Planner | OTIF & Inventory Optimizer

Smurfit Westrock; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Smurfit Westrock is seeking a Supply Planner to develop and execute inventory planning strategies across a subset of corrugated facilities, with emphasis on balancing demand and supply and supporting 0-13 week planning. You will work with Master Planners, Line Schedulers, and Finance to optimize OTIF and minimize working capital while aligning with strategic goals.

The role requires deep domain knowledge of corrugated plant operations, strong analytical capabilities, and experience with advanced

Qualifications

• Strong analytical, organizational and communication skills, and attention to details.
• Depth of understanding of Corrugated Box Plant operations across order management, design specifications, production planning, corrugator, converting and shipping.
• Analytical and able to logically process information to produce insights in a consumable format; aggregates, cleanses, and disseminates data in structured formats to support better business decisions and improved performance.
• Process oriented - Plans, designs, manages processes while focusing on refining and improving to increase efficiency and effectiveness; understands process inputs, activities, outputs, roles and sequencing.
• Comprehension of current market conditions and seasonality with the ability to anticipate changes.
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task and handle multiple responsibilities in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment.
• Experience with advanced planning software is strongly preferred (SAP, Blue Yonder, o9), ideally through implementation of new tools
• Experience with Kiwiplan strongly preferred
• Minimum 5+ years of supply chain or related experience

Responsibilities

• Develop inventory planning strategies by setting seasonal, pre-build, contractual, and Days of Supply targets for converting facilities, ensuring optimal stock levels while minimizing working capital expense
• Ensure warehouse inventory aligns with demand by directing planning efforts and partnering with key stakeholders to maintain visibility of KPIs, risks, tradeoffs, and escalation needs
• Apply logic and analysis to proactively review demand forecasts against orders, capacity, and inventory, identifying gaps and recommending solutions to align supply with strategic and financial commitments
• Collaborate with Supply Planning and Operations to identify potential bottlenecks or excess capacity across the node, proposing inventory-driven solutions to mitigate supply and cost risks
• Support master planning activities by balancing demand forecasts across plants, ensuring orders are routed appropriately to maximize OTIF, and re-balancing demand/orders on an exception basis across nodes with other Master Planners and Supply Planners.
• Facilitate connections between inventory and ITP decisions, ensuring alignment with operations, commercial, and pricing teams for seamless execution.
• Drive continuous improvement opportunities that enhance system utilization, process efficiency, and throughput, optimizing capacity and minimizing costs while meeting customer requirements (OTIF).
• Support the adoption of new technology as part of Smurfit Westrock’s transformation efforts, ensuring inventory and planning processes leverage these advancements.
• Maintain accurate, up-to-date data in systems, reflecting the latest capacity and inventory outlook to support planning and decision-making.

Job description

Smurfit Westrock is seeking a Supply Planner to develop and execute inventory planning strategies across a subset of corrugated facilities, with emphasis on balancing demand and supply and supporting 0-13 week planning. You will work with Master Planners, Line Schedulers, and Finance to optimize OTIF and minimize working capital while aligning with strategic goals.

The role requires deep domain knowledge of corrugated plant operations, strong analytical capabilities, and experience with advanced