Supply Chain Master Scheduler

Sika; Marion (OH); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Sika in Marion, Ohio is seeking a professional responsible for analyzing demand and supply while collaborating with various teams. The role focuses on ensuring efficient scheduling to meet customer demands.

Responsibilities include monitoring implementation of schedules, conducting capacity planning, and identifying scheduling conflicts. Candidates should have a proactive approach to resolving potential bottlenecks and improving scheduling processes.

Responsibilities

• Analyze demand and supply, determine out of balance conditions.
• Collaborate with teams to reduce lead-times.
• Conduct rough-cut capacity planning.

Job description

Responsibilities

• Analyze demand and supply at the item, customer, and master schedule levels, determine out of balance conditions, identify alternative and recommend actions for approval.
• Collaborate with sales, marketing, and manufacturing to understand and reduce internal and customer lead-times.
• Conduct rough-cut capacity planning prior to publishing master schedule to ensure alignment with SI&OP commitments.
• Oversee S&OE commitments within the sites to ensure efficient detailed scheduling and utilization of capacity.
• Identify, negotiate, and resolve conflicts with respect to material and capacity availability and order-promising integrity across the manufacturing network.
• Create a master schedule that satisfies customer demand while leveling workload released to manufacturing, and optimize inventory levels and resource utilization.
• Maintain scheduling parameters, such as lead-times, lot sizes, and cycle times.
• Monitor the implementation of schedules and evaluate their success as well as assess and mitigate risks that may impact the schedule.
• Proactively identify potential scheduling conflicts or bottlenecks and work with relevant departments to resolve them.
• Collaborate closely with Production, Purchasing, Engineering, Product Management, Quality and Sales teams to ensure that the schedule is realistic and aligns with overall business objectives.
• Evaluate and adjust schedules to account for inventories and capacity constraints.
• Communicate schedule changes to corresponding stakeholders as changes occur.
• Review upcoming projects for complexity, special build requirement, line and capacity requirements, manpower allocation, etc.
• Identify areas for process improvement within the scheduling function and implement changes to meet stated lead times.