Senior / Principal Planner, Supply Chain

Description

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development, and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in several ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, diversity and inclusion, mobility, networking, and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.

The Principal Planner, Supply Chain is responsible for evaluating the outputs of MRP and preparing the short-term detailed production/procurement schedule for assigned materials. This role is responsible for the strategic planning of mid to long term rough-cut production/procurement schedules and work center capacity strategies for assigned materials. This may include direct material procurement, intermediate production, finished good packaging, and/or contract manufactured materials. The incumbent will work to achieve the corporate supply goals of customer service level, production service level, inventory targets, minimization of back orders and outdated inventory, and overall continuity of supply to customers.

The Principal Planner, Supply Chain is responsible for coordinating all assigned product supply and direct material related topics on behalf of Supply Chain Management. The incumbent is responsible for challenging and optimizing existing processes to ensure robust flow of materials and information through the end-to-end supply chain. This role will routinely interface with fellow supply planners, production execution, quality management, inbound/outbound logistics, TPM, operations management, CMOs, vendors, and other business partners.

 

The Senior Planner, Supply Chain is responsible for evaluating the outputs of MRP and preparing the short-term detailed production / procurement schedule for assigned materials. This may include areas of direct material procurement, intermediate production, finished good packaging, and/or contract manufactured materials. It is also the responsibility of the Senior Planner to evaluate and calculate capacity constraints by assigned work center, in order to assist in developing mid to long range capacity strategies. The Senior Planner will work to achieve the corporate supply goals of customer service level, production service level, inventory targets, minimization of back orders and outdated inventory, and overall continuity of supply to customers. The Senior Planner will routinely interface with fellow supply planners, production execution, quality management, inbound/outbound logistics, TPM, operations management, CMOs, vendors, and other business partners. As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in a number of ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, diversity and inclusion, mobility, networking and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.

Duties & Responsibilities

SENIOR PLANNER:

Independently create and distribute production schedules and all accompanying documentation for assigned materials based on requirements, component availability, and capacity of assigned work centers.
Communicate with manufacturing management and floor personnel or vendors concerning daily production issues that affect the completion of the schedule. Must be able to effectively solve problems by working with manufacturing management, quality, and supply chain departments.
Maintain appropriate inventory levels of assigned materials to support inventory goals and production requirements. Put measures into place to reduce short dated/expired material in addition to taking appropriate inventory control actions regarding short dated, expired or obsolete materials.
Proactively analyze and develop appropriate safety stock levels for assigned materials. Assist with detailed inventory analysis and development of recommendations for state-of-the art inventory control, continuous improvement, and on time, in full delivery practices. Completes other strategic analysis as required.
Coordinate and plan non-commercial demand (product development batches) and new product launches.
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