Supply Planner

• Translate demand plans, available production hours, manufacturing capabilities, line constraints, and production requirements into an integrated supply and capacity plan
• Develop and maintain capacity plans by manufacturing work group, production line, and other relevant manufacturing constraints
• Identify and resolve capacity and supply imbalances
• Develop scenarios and recommendations to address capacity constraints
• Partner with Production Planning to determine what should be produced, when, and in what quantities
• Maintain forward visibility into capacity requirements and communicate emerging constraints to Operations and leadership
• Own inventory planning across raw materials, packaging materials, work-in-process, and finished goods
• Establish and maintain SKU-level minimum and maximum inventory targets
• Develop and monitor weekly, monthly, and annual inventory plans
• Identify risks related to shortages, excess, aging, slow-moving, or obsolete inventory
• Develop strategies to reduce inventory while protecting customer service and manufacturing requirements
• Manage inventory working capital
• Partner with Demand Planning, Production Planning, and Operations to drive inventory accuracy and adherence to inventory plans
• Align production schedules with inventory requirements, customer service objectives, available capacity, and efficient production runs
• Identify root causes of inventory deviations and establish corrective actions
• Provide leadership with visibility into inventory risks, capacity constraints, and supply-demand imbalances
• Own the weekly, monthly, and annual Supply, Capacity & Inventory Planning cycle
• Establish planning processes, operating rhythms, KPIs, and accountability mechanisms
• Lead regular planning reviews
• Develop what-if scenarios
• Continuously improve planning processes, systems, data quality, and analytical capabilities
• Maintain planning assumptions, constraints, and inventory targets in planning and ERP systems
• Utilize and improve supply and inventory planning models
• Translate model outputs into actionable supply and inventory decisions

Supply Planner jobs in North Carolina

Supply, Capacity & Inventory Planner