Senior Supply Chain Specialist

 

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Your Role:

Senior Supply Chain Specialist is a lower to mid- level planning position within the Planning organization of Supply Chain. The position responsibilities involve 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.  Job duties include:

 

• Reviews demand plans at a global and local level, including adjusting forecast and safety stock parameters
• Works with the sales group to incorporate customer demands into the planning systems.
• Develops operational schedules to meet customer service objectives and support sales growth plans at the lowest overall inventory costs
• Develops, test and executes models for scheduling operations. 
• Lead and/or assist process improvement initiatives
• Reviews long term plans to ensure capacity requirements are understood and met 
• Compiles reports and metrics to ensure business has proper feedback loops on performance to objectives
• Creates operational schedules based on throughput, customer service, and all other company and/or departmental goals
• Uses APO or other scheduling software techniques to optimize production schedules
• Analyzes planned orders, requirements, and system designs with a view to global MilliporeSigma supply chain impact
• Converts planned orders to purchase requisitions
• Identify scheduling constraints and tests various methods and strategies to reduce or eliminate those constraints (i.e., bulk size, availability, fill time, warehouse space)
• Develops SAP generated reports various performance measures to identify opportunities for refinement of strategies, process improvement, and testing.
• Manages SAP exception messages and act on recommended plan changes.  Including expediting or rescheduling purchase orders. 
• Schedules and maintains records on top 100 products
• Works 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
• Analyzes inventory and forecasts status to provide superior customer service
• Analyzes reports and participates in projects to eliminate backorders, optimize inventory, and increase customer service.
• Evaluates, tests, recommends and/or implements changes that could improve service, cycle time, throughput efficiency, inventory levels, etc.
• Enforces inventory approval policies