What are the responsibilities and job description for the Material Planner position at tesa?
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At tesa, we're not just colleagues; we're collaborators who thrive on pushing boundaries and challenging the status quo. Our mission is to create sustainable adhesive solutions that improve the work, products, and lives of our customers - we're passionate about making a difference!
We are hiring a Material Planner at our plant in Sparta that will be responsible for the management and control of production planning and scheduling for work-in-process and finished goods. This includes but is not limited to establishing and monitoring inventory levels against forecasts, (to achieve targeted company service levels), minimizing the company’s investment in inventory, scheduling and coordinating material production and delivery in order to achieve customer satisfaction with available product for on time deliveries.
What you will do:
At tesa, we're not just colleagues; we're collaborators who thrive on pushing boundaries and challenging the status quo. Our mission is to create sustainable adhesive solutions that improve the work, products, and lives of our customers - we're passionate about making a difference!
We are hiring a Material Planner at our plant in Sparta that will be responsible for the management and control of production planning and scheduling for work-in-process and finished goods. This includes but is not limited to establishing and monitoring inventory levels against forecasts, (to achieve targeted company service levels), minimizing the company’s investment in inventory, scheduling and coordinating material production and delivery in order to achieve customer satisfaction with available product for on time deliveries.
What you will do:
- Forecast / plan and manage inventory turns
- Work with the Supply Chain Buyer to ensure on-time material supply and on-time product delivery
- Utilize internal planning software; participates actively on the global team
- Develop and implement short-term and long-term production planning to meet company requirements
- Ensure customer delivery commitments on make-to-order products
- Establish inventory stocking levels and system forecasts that support both customer demand as well as inventory targets
- Create production schedules that will optimize requirements, reduce cycle times and minimize inventories.
- Execute inventory deployment throughout appropriate tesa warehouses
- Maintain master data integrity within SAP
- Resolve inventory discrepancies
- Analyze inventories for obsolescence and recommend and/or implement solutions
- Support new product launches
- Other duties as assigned
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance or a related degree; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Must have experience with MRP reports, data entry and interpretation of data, preferably in SAP
- PC proficient (Microsoft Word, Excel, Windows, etc.)
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Must be highly organized and able to multi-task
- Must be able to work within the framework of 6S, ISO and IATF requirements
- Flexibility to work varying hours
