What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Production Planner position at Anika Therapeutics?
Position Scope :
The Senior Production Planner will set and oversee the site supply plans to align with the sales forecast (demand plan) from the integrated business plan, while meeting business objectives of safety, quality, on-time delivery, competitive customer lead times, profitability, and inventory
The Senior Production Planner will collaborate with the site production leadership teams to meet and align on SIOP requirements to meet customer expectations. The Senior Production Planner works closely with the Site Leadership, Production Managers, Shipping / Receiving, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality and Customer Service to ensure the achievement of production and inventory goals. Support daily management activities to ensure commitments are achieved and communicated to the customer support teams.
The Senior Production Planner will also be responsible for assisting in the development of business intelligence tools such as forecast accuracy KPI's, root cause analytics, and other ad hoc reporting as needed.
The Senior Production Planner works closely with the Senior Master Scheduler, Manufacturing, and Packaging managers to ensure continuous and optimal production. The role encompasses understanding inventory management policies for finished goods supply, to raw material replenishment.
Responsibilities :
- Align production (supply) with planned (forecasted) demand, through the merging of tactical and strategic planning methods across any number of organizational functions.
- Analyzing demand plan and production plans (supply) to develop an integrated business plan (SIOP) that incorporates, new product development, strategic initiative, and a financial plan.
- Identify critical capacity constraints and develop strategies with the Value Stream team to manage / eliminate / reduce.
- Oversee products on-hold and returns to ensure follow-up and follow-through.
- Streamline and improve processes using lean tools and industry best practices.
- Effectively communicate with all business functions the SIOP, priorities, status reports, and project updates.
- Collaborate internally to resolve any conflicts.
- Lead / oversee daily / weekly production meetings as needed.
- Ensure on-time delivery metrics are reported daily, weekly, and monthly.
- Analyzes forecast accuracy and takes corresponding actions to improve forecast accuracy and quality.
- Analyze historical and forecasted demand levels and work with the purchasing team to establish and maintain appropriate stocking levels.
- Manages the WIP inventory to support operations and inventory objectives.
- Effectively leads the planning and scheduling teams, works to develop, and grow the team as to support the business.
- Ensure ERP master data integrity and continuously work on system accuracy and quality improvements.
- Establishment of finished good safety stock levels as required, and reviewed on a quarterly basis at a minimum
- Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by Management as deemed appropriate.
- Oversee the scheduling of production materials to ensure optimal production levels are maintained.
- Respond to production issues and adjust planning schedule as required.
- Communicate any major variations to affected parties and escalate to senior management where applicable.
- Create planned deviations.
- Conduct investigation of Non-conformances
- Analyze capacity and identify any potential bottlenecks in the production system and propose / implement solutions.
- Monitor inventory levels of raw material and coordinate with Buyer / Planner to expediate orders.
- Participate in the review of the company's inventory policy and make recommendations on adjustments to avoid risk of slow moving / obsolescent materials.
- Track, measure, and report key metrics of performance versus plan
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