Production Scheduler

Job Summary

Serve as a liason between Supply Chain and Production site (s) to maximize planning accuracy, schedule adherence, OTIF, material management, inventory management, etc.

Job Description

• Responsible for maintaining a detailed production schedule which includes materials, quantities, and timing of production.
• Executes schedule changes in accordance to time fence policies.
• Create and maintain work orders and planned orders in the ERP systems.
• Participate in daily production meetings.
• Monitors daily schedule status and communicates scheduling problems or concerns to supply management.
• Work with the supply chain team to resolve problems with late shipments, material shortages, customer schedule changes and cancellations of customer orders.
• Report weekly production progress through KPI’s OTIF RCA, research transactions to get to root cause. Work with Supply Planning Manager on corrective actions.
• Design and apply purchasing and inventory control procedures including monitoring/ reporting inventories in transit, buffer stocks and inventories in local warehouses and tracking availability and reliability of supply in order to maintain optimum stock to fulfill production/ business needs at the necessary minimum costs.
• Monitor inventory control for raw materials and finished goods by reviewing inventory and stock record; raise advice to production and sales/marketing personnel to realize cost effectiveness. Co-ordinate and plan with logistics/ transportation personnel for the receiving of raw materials, equipment, parts according to the production requirements and schedule to ensure that production will not be interrupted due to material issues.
• Continuously improve existing processes.
  
  

What will it take

• College degree preferred or relevant experience.
• Minimum 5 years relevant experience in a production or planning environment.
• Fluent English in written and spoken, good PC skills especially for MS-Office software;
• Familiar with ERP systems;
• APICS certification preferred.
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills at all levels;
• Being able to manage multiple tasks and work under pressure;
• Details focused, result oriented.
  
  

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