The Planning team provides value add by:
Managing or completing supply planning based on a number of indicators (sales forecast, orders, production data).
Analyzing, controlling and reporting on relevant KPI, detecting plan deviations, and deriving recommendations.
Developing supplier forecasts and determine logistical processes with suppliers.
Analyzing order plans and critical timelines, and double-checking of available materials, parts or products in stock.
Executing load balancing calculations, and cooperating with other plants for respectively optimized plans.
Planning of monthly or weekly production program for the assigned plant(s).
Calculating and deploying short-term (day-to-day) production plans for assigned production resources.
A job at this level:
Plans the material, machine, and personnel or transportation and warehousing resources needed, for local plant or site operations.
Sets up comprehensive plans, related to production or transportation and delivery, in cooperation with local Operations or Logistics.
Initiate procurement orders, and release production or transportation orders according to the plans agreed.
Monitors efficiency of processes, and derive short-term measures when necessary.
Cooperates with Maintenance, Engineering or Production Management to identify deficiencies or improvement potential.