Materials Planner III
Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Frederick, MD
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Monitor supply plans to identify changes and to understand their impact on material requirements schedules.
- Work closely with production planning and scheduling teams to ensure proper coverage and accurate schedules.
- Adjust the delivery schedules to accommodate near-term orders that differ from the agreed sales and operations (S&OP) plan.
- Establish and own critical inventory parameters - such as ABC classification and safety stock settings, replenishment quantity and launch quantity - taking into account constraints and input, such as lead time and order cycle time.
- Develop and maintain material planning assumptions in conjunction with purchasing, planning, manufacturing operations, logistics/warehousing and commercial teams, including safety stocks, lead times, order quantities, campaign, supplier delivery performance or production strategy, batch yields and cycle times.
- Facilitate weekly supply planning meetings with key suppliers, where required, and ensure gaps between demand and supply are clearly understood and communicated, and appropriate actions are in place to resolve.
- Align with critical suppliers on availability and key risks and constraints on short and midterm.
- Identify possible future capacity constraints and bottlenecks in the supply base.
- Work with procurement and suppliers on service-level agreements to align lead times and minimum order quantities.
- Leverage new product introduction plans from research and development and/or new product innovation teams into material requirement schedules
- Report on back orders, short stock, excess items and slow-moving inventory to the parties concerned.
- Be accountable, measure, analyze and report key process metrics, and track adherence to key performance indicators such as inventory, timely delivery, and availability.
- Participate in problem solving activities and drive back-order reduction efforts.
- Improve and upgrade material planning systems and reporting.
- Analyze supplier performance and inventories to understand how to increase inventory turns, reduce waste or optimize customer service.
- 3-5 years of relevant supply chain planning or procurement experience in a manufacturing supply chain.
- A Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, or other business management focus or related field preferred.
- HS diploma required.
- Embodies our Thermo Fisher values of Integrity, Involvement, Intensity and Innovation.
- Understanding of material requirements scheduling and planning concepts.
- A strong balance of analytical skills and action orientation combined with practical business knowledge to drive sustaining results with intensity.
- Ability to use technology tools and translate data into high-level analysis to facilitate collaboration with business leaders guiding towards desired business outcomes.
- Ability to clearly communicate results of analysis in verbal and written format to different levels in the organization.
- Proficiency in SAP, JDE, or another major ERP system.