Job Summary: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Production Planner to manage customer sales orders/forecasts and develop weekly production schedules. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring our customer's demands and production deadlines are met by aligning capacity and inventory levels with demand forecasts.
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
Collaborate with customers to understand their schedules and forecasts.
Proactively identify, communicate, and follow up on significant trends and demand changes to provide long- and short-term capacity plans.
Receive, input, and maintain customer orders in the SAP system.
Work closely with the commercial, production, and purchasing teams to ensure all orders are met.
Cooperate with the Technical team to prioritise new designs and design changes to ensure production deadlines are met.
Build capacity plans based on resource availability.
Analyse production demands and create production schedules based on customer requirements.
Liaise with site Coordinators regarding production schedule sign-off and communicate schedules and priorities clearly to the production team.
Create, schedule, and if required, re-schedule production orders to ensure OTIF (On-Time, In-Full) delivery to customers.
Identify and address production disruptions and bottlenecks, working with site Coordinators to provide viable solutions to maintain OTIF delivery.
Ensure timely release of production orders, ensuring plans ca...