Demand Planner
Dean Foods

Job Info

---

SUMMARY

Responsible for maintaining and developing a demand and master production plan system supporting schedules that meet the Marketing and Sales programs. Evaluate constrained supply and unconstrained demand and create supply plans to maximize capacity utilization and revenue opportunities that support production, procurement (ingredients and packaging materials), transportation and distribution while minimizing the risk of obsolescence across locations.

Support Sales, Plant, and Logistics users to utilize the planning process and system -provide user and system troubleshooting support with issues involving resources, models, standard costs and transactions, provide support in the preparation of manufacturing budgets and cost analysis, maintain current descriptions of the tasks and procedures for this position, and provide training on related issues to others when necessary.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Maintain demand plan database, user interface, and useful reporting for Sales and Finance.

• Provide projected production volume requirements based on sales plan, historical sales, promotion grids, inventories, and production capacity constraints.
• Complete weekly planning cycle for all In-Network plants
• Determine monthly, weekly, or daily (as required) feed stock requirements for each facility to coordinate with Commodities Procurement.
• Maintain data integrity and support new and discontinued item management
• Maintain a statistical forecast

Plan in collaboration with appropriate functional areas inventory levels that satisfy customer service level for product availability and minimize production, transportation and warehousing costs.

Proactively identify and contain potential issues that may negatively impact the company's ability to meet its customer's expectations.

Prepare weekly and monthly Supply Chain reports and conduct weekly conference call to review finished goods inventories at major warehouse locations and inventory positions at manufacturing locations.

Responsible for the integrity & maintaining a demand and supply planning system

Support user training and issue calls

Monitor current information on material numbers, BOM's, recipes, warehouse/locations, MRP fields, and any other manufacturing related requirement in DMS.

Develop inventory deployment and inventory forecast reports.

Develop a tool using demand and statistical safety stock to provide recommended orders

Develop reporting for warehouse inventory forecast

Support in the development of operating budgets for sales units, manufacturing units and logistics handling units.

Support functional areas for new item production launch

Coordinate and manage the new item process for item setup and commercialization

Education and Skills Requirements:

Education

• S/B.A. Industrial Engineering or Supply Chain and Operations Management preferred.
• Working knowledge of SQL server coding
• Minimum of 5 years of supply chain operations and/or supply chain planning
• Certificates and/or licenses
• APICS certifications is a plus

Skills/Abilities

• Candidate must have excellent verbal and written communication skills to interact effectively with multiple company departments and personnel.
• Candidate must have advanced analytical skills and use of software packages to accomplish such.
• Candidate should be able to operate effectively within a team and under pressure.

Travel requirements 10-30%

An Equal Opportunity Employer

This job has expired.