Material Planner/Coordinator

Overview

 

At Eagle Foods we are builders.  We are builders of brands, categories, and people.  Eagle Foods enjoys a rich heritage with brands that have proven category leadership for more than 150 years.  Eagle is a diversified food company producing and marketing sweetened condensed and evaporated milk, snacks and convenient meal solutions products.  As a company, Eagle Foods is passionate about fostering an entrepreneurial spirit that boldly builds better people and better brands while focusing on the positive impact our company, our products and our people have on the world.  Eagle Foods has a bold family of brands that consumers have come to rely on for decades, including Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk and Evaporated Milk, Magnolia® Sweetened Condensed Milk, PET® Milk, Popcorn Indiana, Cretors Popcorn, Helper and Suddenly Salad.  Eagle Foods products are marketed and distributed across all U.S. retail channels, including grocery stores, club stores and mass-merchandisers, as well as foodservice and export, U.S. military, and private label business.

Responsibilities

Job Description Summary:

The Material Planner is responsible for ensuring that adequate quantities of the correct materials are on hand to support the production schedule and facility. This person will be accountable for developing supporting material plans and works closely with the Production Scheduler to identify supply problems related to schedule changes and monitors bill of materials as needed on new or existing items. Additionally, this individual monitors and controls inventory levels to optimize inventory and minimize obsolescence

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with your manager, corporate purchasing, and the plant warehouse manager to set safety stocks for materials considerate of supplier lead times, contract stipulations with suppliers (as an example, does the supplier hold inventory on our behalf so we can hold less at the plant), demand and production needs over the material lead time horizon and historical variability of demand for the items
• Order/release materials from assigned suppliers to maintain material safety stocks/inventory levels considerate of the weekly production schedule and mid -range production plan at the plant
• Proactively communicate with your manager, the plant scheduler/s, plant leadership and corporate purchasing when material inventories or scheduled deliveries are not sufficient to support scheduled or planned production. Work with these partners to develop solutions to support the business need.
• Interact with suppliers to communicate material needs and develop solutions to material supply issues
• Work with vendors to provide needed quantities of materials to adequately support production demands in the circumstances such as changed production schedules or rejected deliveries and manage the return of any defective or rejected ingredients back to the vendor and ensure proper credits are issued
• Meet with vendors to discuss issues, and to ensure continuous improvement in areas of products and processes
• Own the supply of materials until they arrive at the plant. This includes personally working with suppliers to monitor deliveries where we are at risk of not having materials in the plant in time to support planned production.
• Participate in cycle counting and inventory level verification in support of the plant team when requested or where the material inventory situation is best owned by planning. While inventory record accuracy (floor count to system) is primarily a plant responsibility there will be some instances or materials where the planner/coordinator will need to own or engage in the process.
• Own resolution with suppliers when physical deliveries or delivery paperwork (CoA, BOL, etc.) do not meet receiving expectations. This includes being available to field calls or engage on the dock to confirm issues exist, partnering with warehouse and plant leadership to align on what to do immediately with the receipt (reject, receive and hold, etc.), working the immediate issue to resolution with the supplier, and working with the supplier and purchasing (as needed for 2nd level support) to have the supplier address repeat failures to prevent recurrence.
• In coordination with purchasing and marketing, plan, communicate and manage material transitions so that they are done with no plant production interruption and minimal to no obsolescence.
• Consider impact of scheduling decisions on shared resources throughout the plant (i.e., labor, equipment, etc.) and work with other personnel to resolve conflicts and improve productivity
• Attend daily and weekly plant scheduling meetings to:
  • Review the production plans and understand plan changes
  • Communicate materi