Determine and confirm delivery dates for customer’s sales orders and intercompany demand for finished products and sub- assemblies following procedure:
Verify and align short term capacity with line managers to meet demand,
+ Know capacity of designated production lines – general and bottlenecks,
+ Know what resources production need to spend to meet short term demand peaks,
+ Negotiate with production to balance between meeting customers’ demand and meeting internal KPIs in coordination with superiors,
Verify and align RM delivery schedule with purchasing to meet demand,
+ Know lead time of major components for designated production lines,
Monitor customers’ forecast for designated production lines and proactively react to significant positive and negative variations,
Translate customers’ forecast into RM demand for designated lines and proactively inform purchasing team about upcoming demand changes to avoid shortages and overstock.
Coordinate necessary resources for sample/prototype production with sample engineers,
Proactively start dialog with customer service team to provide information concerning expected changes of delivery dates in case of constraints, suggest and coordinate recovery plans in coordination with superiors,
Create production plan according to demand and available resources
Create short/mid- term production plan which uses available production resources in an efficient way,
Establish medium and long term capacity / production plan in close cooperation with BDM,
Monitor and optimize level of WIP and FG/SA stock,
Adjust production plan in case of resources constraint
Create and schedule production orders for finished products and sub- assemblies,
Monitor realization of production orders in close cooperation with production managers
Participate in production meetings,
Initiate corrective measures when deemed necessary.
Control the status of realization of production orders,
Measure, analyze and initiate corrective actions for specific KPIs, including but not limited to:
Lead time performance,
Delivery performance,
VMI performance,
Order confirmation performance.
Monitor and maintain specific ERP parameters, including but not limited to:
Optimization of parameters to enhance cooperation between departments.
Forecast entry and horizon,
Skilled in planning of designated production lines
Can stand in for any other planner when deemed necessary after short training
