What are the responsibilities and job description for the Supply Planner position at BALDOR SPECIALTY FOODS INC?
Overview:
As an industry leader in wholesale, retail, and residential food distribution, Baldor Specialty Foods continues to grow and evolve at a rapid pace across all departments. The Supply Chain Planner will be responsible for planning goods and material needs across the Baldor network, releasing purchase orders, coordinating deployment, and managing inventories of assigned categories in order to meet sales requirements while maintaining an optimized inventory levels. This position will partner with inbound logistics, operations, merchandising, sales, and accounting, amongst other teams.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute forward looking purchases.
- Responsible for developing/executing safety stock strategies to enable efficient inventory levels while supporting sale targets with highest fill rate possible.
- Understand and analyze key forecast change drivers by working directly with cross-functional teams and tracking larger market trends.
- Perform root cause analysis, developing and presenting action plans to mitigate any future risk.
- Resolve supply issues that arise from inbound transportation, internal schedule changes, and vendor supply interruption.
- Responsible for reducing and tracking projected write offs and supporting accounting for reconciliation for invoice discrepancies.
- Responsible for supporting supplier system connectivity through collaborative tools/methods (EDI, web, ASN, vendor portal, etc.).
- Support overall Supplier QA and service score carding programs, by working with quality assurance, merchandising, operations, and transportation to ensure performance metrics are visible to overall organization and supply base.
- Influence suppliers to participate and implement key supply chain initiatives.
Qualifications:
- BA / BS Degree required.
- APICS CPIM or CSCP certification preferred but not required.
- Minimum combined of 2 years’ experience in any of these areas: Supply Planning, Supply Chain, Procurement, Buying, Demand Planning, Logistics, and/or Materials Management.
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in ERP/MRP system (Dynamics365 is a plus).
- Basic Excel skills required (V-lookups, pivot tables, and formula entry a must).
- Experience with PowerBI and/or Tableau is preferred but not required.
- Past participation in S&OP (or SIOP) process, capacity planning, measuring KPIs preferred but not required.
- Strong analytical, critical thinking, problem solving, and time/process management skills preferred.
- Strong attention to detail a must.
- Flexible outlook and active learner.
- Able to professionally communicate clearly: verbally and written.
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