What are the responsibilities and job description for the Planning and Materials Manager position at Puratos?
The Planning & Materials Manager, part of the facility leadership team, oversees capacity planning, materials management, and production scheduling. This role is crucial in fostering collaboration between engineering, production, purchasing, and quality assurance to ensure timely and complete product delivery that meets customer expectations.
Primary Responsibilities
Looking for a Career for Good?
Puratos is a global purpose-driven company focused on bringing people together through food innovation for good. We offer a full range of innovative food ingredients and services for the bakery, patisserie, and chocolate sectors, serving artisans, retailers, industrial and food service companies in over 100 countries around the world. Our passion for innovation, pioneering spirit, and core values continue to propel our global ambitions. This coupled with our commitment to our communities is what makes working at Puratos so magical.
We offer a competitive compensation and benefit package, designed to promote a Happier, Healthier You. This includes:
Primary Responsibilities
- Continuously optimize supply chain materials functions including demand planning, production planning, and production scheduling.
- Ensure efficient work center loads, lead times, and material availability to meet customer requirements.
- Manage all ERP and MRP system parameters, to ensure efficient and effective planning results
- Identify and implement changes to parameters to positively impact inventory, waste, and schedules.
- Manage delivery schedules, continuously improving practices and implementing corrective actions for supply chain, materials, production planning, and warehousing issues.
- Review and suggest corrections of bill of material and routing errors, nomenclature errors, and other scheduling-related issues.
- Monthly report on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as defined by plant leadership.
- Set goals, coach, and hold accountable direct reports to benchmark and implement supply chain, material, and production planning best practices to promote continuous improvement.
- Estimate the amount of material, equipment, and labor required for production.
- Promptly address and resolve production issues to minimize delays in production.
- Recommend solutions to reduce production costs, improve processes, and product quality.
- Understand production facility resources, capacity, labor, quality standards, bottlenecks, challenges, and opportunities, with the expectation of developing demonstrated reliability in production results and planning accuracy.
- Develop weekly finite schedules for all production work centers; release production orders to production lines, ensure clear direction and confirmation of the plan.
- Collaborate with supply chain on capacity limitations or other risks to the master plan.
- Coordinate with supply chain team to integrate the facility production plan.
- Contribute to the development and continual improvement of the planning process: Rolling Master Production Schedule at SKU level, Rolling Rough Cut Capacity Plan (RCCP) for plant scheduling, budgeting, capital planning and resource planning.
- Collaborate with purchasing to develop and maintain rolling Material Resource Planning (MRP) process.
- Support root cause analysis and investigation of customer misses related to production planning or execution; develop contingency plans to support customer needs with existing capabilities.
- Take a lead role in managing raw and packaging material inventories and ensuring raw material ordering occurs inefficient economic order quantity and timing.
- Be the single point of contact (SPOC) to sales and customer service to provide status updates on orders (production, shipment, and quality release status). Participate in weekly customer service and supply chain communication forums, addressing any deviations from the plan or customer requirements, with alternative solutions.
- Serve as the single point of contact for sales and customer service, providing order status updates and addressing deviations in weekly forums.
- Oversee warehouse operation including receiving raw materials, shipping finished goods, and inventory management. Monitor and optimize warehouse capacity. Prioritize order shipments to Distribution Center (DC) and direct shipments to customers.
- Support new product introduction projects from prototype to production. Contribute knowledge of site capabilities and limitations, capacity, and efficiency opportunities
- Support SKU portfolio evaluation with input on production complexities, costs, efficiencies, and raw material mapping. Assist with SKU de-listing, including system changes and resource identification.
- At least 3 years of related experience working in a planning role
- Bachelor’s degree
- Proficiency in SAP required
- Must be a driver of lean manufacturing and a lean culture.
- Preferred CSCP, CPIM certification
- Production experience preferably in FDA regulated industries
- Experience in supply chain system for raw materials
- Experience in purchasing is a plus
- Experience with Power BI systems and strong Microsoft Office and Excel skills are a plus.
Looking for a Career for Good?
Puratos is a global purpose-driven company focused on bringing people together through food innovation for good. We offer a full range of innovative food ingredients and services for the bakery, patisserie, and chocolate sectors, serving artisans, retailers, industrial and food service companies in over 100 countries around the world. Our passion for innovation, pioneering spirit, and core values continue to propel our global ambitions. This coupled with our commitment to our communities is what makes working at Puratos so magical.
We offer a competitive compensation and benefit package, designed to promote a Happier, Healthier You. This includes:
- Insurance coverage beginning the first of the month—no extra waiting period to get started
- Immediate 401(k) eligibility including a fully vested matching contribution
- Receive over 5 weeks total of paid time off within your first year of service
- Free life coaches, convenient onsite health exams, 24/7 access to Registered Nurses
- Puratos-paid insurance coverage to protect you and your family including Life and Disability insurance
