Background & Purpose of the Job

The primary purpose of this position is to manage the sourcing of raw and packaging materials into Simcoe Factory to support the production of finished goods, expediting and de-expediting of raw and packaging materials to support the plant production schedule, and customer service while optimizing inventory levels. This will require working with procurement and suppliers to improve vendor reliability and responsiveness as well as ensuring factory alignment.

This position acts as a focal point in managing the MRP process, key step within the E2E Supply Chain Planning pillar. The key metrics of this role are 1) Customer Service 2) Waste reduction 3) Materials inventory management.

Who You Are & What You’ll Do- Evaluate material requirements based on system generated MRP and requisition materials accordingly.- Expedite and de-expedite raw and package materials to support and maintain a flexible production schedule while communicating with Business Units and support departments to achieve customer satisfaction.- Monitor raw and package inventory to achieve continuous improvement in inventory optimization. Maintain and utilize inventory models.- Interface with Procurement, Supply Chain Planning, Suppliers, R&D, Logistics.- Maintain Bills of Material, material master data, factory invoices and internal KPI’s.You’re a born leader: Influencing a group of practitioners to take action and change behaviors even though you do not have direct authority over them

You’re a strategy guru: Support functional team improvement efforts in driving mínimal inventory positions, optimal component consumption, optimal data feed between systems, and overall improvement in Material Planning KPIs.

You love to win, and have fun doing it: Define and help enforce system best practices. This is done through a combination of gap analysis, audits, community of practice reviews, & escalation to Sr management as necessary.

You’re a changemaker: Identify process or system innovation opportunities with SAP or other materials management software. Work with GPE (Global Plan Excellence) office to define/implement system change requests.

What You’ll Need To Succeed- Position requires a high degree of understanding of material planning and SAP ECC, APO and Sales Force. Being able to balance objectives of different teams that are sometimes at tension with each other and influencing a group of practitioners to change behaviors even though you do not have direct authority over them will be critical to success.- Bachelors Degree with focus in an analytical discipline preferred (eg. Logistics, applied sciences, computer science, math, statistics, economics, engineering, etc.).- A minimum of 3 - 4 years experience in supply chain. At least 2 - 3 years in material requirements planning is preferred- Understanding of data-mining techniques and statistical methods- Knowledge of SAP ECC and SAP certification a plus

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