Supply Planner

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Supply Planner

Buckman is a privately held, global specialty chemical company with headquarters in Memphis, TN, USA, committed to safeguarding the environment, maintaining safety in the workplace, and promoting sustainable development. Buckman works proactively and collaboratively with its worldwide customers in pulp and paper, leather, and water treatment to deliver exceptional service and innovative specialty chemical solutions to help boost productivity, reduce risk, improve product quality, and provide a measurable return on investment.  Buckman is in the middle of a digital transformation of its businesses and focused on building the capabilities and tools in support of this.

Location

• Memphis, TN, USA 

Language

• English

Travel

• Less than 10%

Objective of the Position

Supply chain planning works in tandem with demand planning. If an organization's demand plan indicates the need for high product volumes, its supply plan must detail the process of actually manufacturing and supplying enough of that product. Balance is key, and considerations must be made to ensure that costs are kept low while value is enhanced for the customer or end user. Supply planner also provides statistical analysis of inventory consumption, safety stock parameters and inventory replenishment as directed by the master raw material purchase plan.

Work Results & Essential Actions:

• Collect supply inputs to prepare scenarios for the Supply Review Meeting
• Collaborate closely with Demand Planners to anticipate potential implications of demand trends on supply.
• Build various supply plan scenarios to understand the impact of alternative decisions regarding projected constraints.
• Understand and resolve capacities and constraints (plants, raw materials etc.), and direct demand across alternative sources of supply where necessary.
• Define inventory strategies and regularly review inventory levels across the supply chain to address excess/shortage.
• Provide inventory visibility and balancing across the supply chain, escalating non-addressed inventory imbalances.
• Seek out, develop, share, and implement supply planning best practices.
• Understand inventory impacts and future changes required.
• Provide input to the S&OP planning process in developing inventory strategies on existing items, new products, and product phase-outs.
• Monthly delivery of netted supply plans for manufacturing capacity review process.
• Work closely with Sales and Operations Leadership to build and implement inventory allocation to achieve/exceed service level targets.
• Work with the team to balance sales orders, supply orders, and on-hand inventory to build Available-to-Ship (ATS) reports.
• Bridge with Sales & partner with Operations Leadership to implement replenishment, never out-of-stock programs.
• Document processes and procedures and educate staff.
• Perform demand and supply analytics and provide consistent reporting and tracking performance.

Competences:

      Understanding of manufacturing processes and constraints and setting supply parameters to drive production.

      Strongly data-driven and root-cause analysis focused mindset

      Strong skillset to lead and facilitate meetings with a diverse audience, quickly synthesizing information to help drive consensus and actionable items.

      Highly proficient in data analytics and able to communicate analyses.

      Strong skillset to lead and facilitate meetings with a diverse audience, quickly synthesizing information to help drive consensus and actionable items.

      Results oriented.

      Accountability

      Commitment

      Smart Thinking

      Digital mindset & system oriented

      Clear communication

      Hands on / Proactivity

Requirements:

• Education: Preferred degree in Business Administration or Engineering
• MBA in any Supply Chain related area
• Advanced Excel & Office tools mandatory
• Strong SAP knowledge & experience
• Experience from 3 to 5 years in Supply Chain

      Professional experience in strategic and operational inventory optimization

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