Planning and Scheduling Specialist II

 

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This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US. 

 

Your Role:

MilliporeSigma is hiring a Planning and Scheduling Specialist II.  This role will encompass forecasting, operations planning, and procurement planning functions.  You will be involved in reviewing and adjusting demands at a global and local level, compiling long and short term capacity plans, and ensuring supply chain planning designs are set to achieve global service and inventory objectives.  A P&S specialist is responsible for between $5M and $50M in total inventory. 

Responsibilities:

• Review demand plans at a global and local level, including adjusting forecast and safety stock parameters.
• Work with the sales group to incorporate customer demands into the planning systems.
• Develop operational schedules to meet customer service objectives and support sales growth plans at the lowest overall inventory costs.  
• Develop, test and execute models for scheduling operations.  
• Lead and/or assist process improvement initiatives.  
• Compile reports and metrics to ensure business has proper feedback loops on performance to objectives. 

• Use APO or other scheduling software techniques to optimize production schedules.
• Analyze planned orders, requirements, and system designs with a view to global MilliporeSigma supply chain impact.

• Identify scheduling constraints and test various methods and strategies in order to reduce or eliminate those constraints (i.e. bulk size, availability, fill time, warehouse space)
• Develop SAP generated reports various performance measures to identify opportunities for refinement of strategies, process improvement, and testing.
• Manage SAP exception messages and act on recommended plan changes.  Including expediting or rescheduling purchase orders. 
• Work closely with purchasing and production to ensure bulk availability and packaging requirements including supplies
• Work with global planning teams as needed to ensure planning designs and requirements are coordinated across the entire supply chain
• Analyze reports and participates in projects to eliminate backorders, optimize inventory and increase customer service.

• Support business unit objectives

 

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