Production Planner

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Use appropriate report to ensure Sales orders are planned and delivery dated in the relevant time frame.
Manufacturing Orders (MOs) & Distribution Orders (Dos) to be planned and raised to enable manufacture for on time delivery
MOs & DOs to be closed cleanly or removed from the system if not required.
Appropriate stock levels maintained through release of controlled MOs

Liaise with Manufacturing, Assembly Team Leaders and/ or production manager to discuss production capacity and ensure an achievable plan is established

Liaise with customers and/or customer services team, to achieve the delivery date on the computer system

Assist with the creation and input of MRP data to provide an efficient MRP system Run regular delivery commitment reports (at least once a week)

M3 procedures to be followed
Data in m3 (such as MMS002) to be accurate and maintained regularly
Keep customers( internal and external) up to date with relevant information regarding order progress
Customers kept informed, particularly in advance of any problems
Customer communication systems such as Portals and Acknowledgements to be maintained Work closely with Supply Chain Quality Engineer on supplier audits and visits
Visits to suppliers/customers when and if needed

Keep customers( internal and external) up to date with relevant information regarding order progress

Liaison with sister companies to achieve operating synergies
Where Distribution Orders are involved, direct contact with relevant Ops team in sister companies on a weekly basis

Participate on some S&OP meeting when needed and updating the MPS when required.

Communicate with all relevant parties to resolve issues preventing fulfilment of orders

Work on how the planning process can be improved using the ERP in an extended way and in a modern way with a lean approach

Train the other planners on modern planning technics & on new planning methodologies
Train people from the outside departments to understand planning inputs/outputs

Other duties - ideally each Buyer should be able to undertake any of these tasks, but they may not form a regular part of each persons job

Keyskills :
Engineeringplanningproductionmanufacturing

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