Job Title: Deployment Planner

Type: Contract (HYBRID)

Shift: 8:00 AM – 05:00 PM (Mon – Fri)

Location: Salt Lake City, UT 84123

Position Summary:

The primary function of the Deployment Planner is to make sure the right product is available at the Distribution Centers (DCs) at the right time and in the right quantities. This role will require the candidate to interface with internal resources at the DCs and Plants in addition to maintaining relationships with Commercial team and logistics. In addition to excellent communication skills, a planner needs to be proactive and plan for shortage and delay situations and be able to make informed allocations decisions.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Distribution Center Planned Order Release.

• Manage DC Exception Messages.

• Maintain Master Data and Item attributes.

• Excess & Obsolete review & update blank reason codes.

• EOL Product Management.

• Analyze inventory levels & product demand to recommend SS levels.

• Maintenance & management of master data & order modifiers for MPS planned items.

• Review BP-ICU Internal SO pegged to end SO report to determine shipping priorities & to coordinate production priorities with MSes.

• Communicate late supply to demand planning for sales over FCST orders.

• Make inventory deployment decisions based on products and customer orders.

• Review DC contract / portal inventory & SS requirements.

• Work with and / or provide service feedback to demand planning for FCST performance at the DC.

• Make deployment and logistics decisions for material leaving their plant and DCs (shipping method, shipping location flipping orders).

• Accountable to performance KPIs in the assigned DCs:

• Past due customer orders

• Past due Ios

• Count of line orders late

• SS performance (weeks of supply)

• E&O

• Inventory Turns

• Service levels

• Coordinating with site production planning for firm work order releases (weekly).

• Release of internal orders for distribution centers.

• Update of estimated ship dates on sales orders for distribution centers.

• External sales order risk mitigation and reason code updates for distribution centers (expedites, re-sourcing, etc.).

• Identify and help to resolve material shortages, capacity constraints, operational bottlenecks, and backlog.

• Works with site planning and purchasing on weekly and monthly operations and service KPIs.

• Works with marketing on product life cycles and SKU rationalization.

• Interfaces to S&OP for supply planning process.

• Work on special assignments as they arise.

Knowledge & Skills

• Familiar with MPS and production planning and execution strategies (run rate planning, make to order, make to stock, make to forecast, configure to order, etc.)

• Familiar with managing and setting inventory planning strategies (safety stock, MIN MAX, DOS, MOQ, etc.)

Minimum Qualifications, Education & Experience

• Must be at least 18 years of age.

• Bachelor’s degree with Supply Chain, Business, or relevant field of studies from an accredited college or university is required.

• 1-3 years of Supply Chain experience.

• Familiar with MPS and production planning and execution strategies

• Familiar with managing and setting inventory planning strategies (safety stock, MIN MAX, DOS, MOQ, etc.)

• Familiar with managing inventory and requirements at a distribution center.

• APICS certification preferred.

Note: This job will be hybrid out of the Salt Lake City Plant and only requires going into plant 2-3 times per week or as needed. Initially a 6-month assignment but has the potential to be extended long-term for up to 3 years.