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Supply/Demand Planner, Kettering, OH
Supply/Demand
Planner, Kettering, OH
Please apply at
http://www.meadwestvacocareers.com
or at
http://jobsearch.meadwestvaco.careers.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=62460912&AVSDM=2007%2D09%2D28+16%3A24%3A06&Logo=0&col=dlt&sort=rv&vw=b&C1=3.
MeadWestvaco Consumer & Office Products has the best recognized brands in the business. MeadWestvaco leads the North American and Brazilian stationery markets for school, home and business use – with products that help people organize, communicate, create and learn. Our customers, who range from office superstores to independent variety and stationery stores, have long relied on the success of our popular brands: AT-A-GLANCE®, Day Runner® and Columbian®. Our school stationery brands – Five Star®, Hilroy®, Mead® and Tilibra® – help students better organize their school work and focus on learning. Consumer & Office Products holds relationships with key licensors such as Thomas Kinkade, Disney, Nickelodeon, and Warner Bros.
Responsibilities: This position exists to balance Consumer Products Group’s (CPG) supply and demand by collaborating with internal departments ranging from purchasing, forecasting, sales/marketing, and the Strategic Customer Optimization Teams (SCOT).
- Collaborate with forecasters and SCOT team leads to ensure validity of demands. Initiate changes to forecast to correct consumption and plant spread errors.
- Collaborate with Purchasing department to identify and resolve supply issues.
- Determine build ahead needs and collaborate with sales/marketing/SCOT teams to determine safe to buy items. Gain CPG leadership consensus on dollar impact to inventories.
- Collaborate with forecasting to ensure planning item forecasts accuracy.
- Collaborate with Purchasing at Hilroy (Canadian consumer & office products business) and Sidney, NY location to ensure that their demands are included in capacity analysis.
- Periodically validate that Industry Standard Description is populated for all forecasted items.
- Monitor forecast changes weekly. Communicate reductions to Purchasing for possible cancellation of purchase orders. Collaborate with Purchasing on major changes that could impact the supply strategy.
- Assist the excess/obsolescence team in identifying rework solutions.
- Identify SKU shortages and initiate allocation, if needed.
- Understand customer requirements and apply to capacity planning and build logic
- Balance customer service goals and inventory management goals
Qualifications: - Excellent analytical and organizational skills and the ability to prioritize work independently.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Minimum of Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.
- Strong communication and organizational skills to effectively interact with various functional areas.
- Must project a positive attitude and be able to work within a team environment.
- Demonstrated proficiency with advanced MS Excel (or equivalent) functions.
Please apply at
http://www.meadwestvacocareers.com or
http://jobsearch.meadwestvaco.careers.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=62460912&AVSDM=2007%2D09%2D28+16%3A24%3A06&Logo=0&col=dlt&sort=rv&vw=b&C1=3.
Skills: - APICS certification preferred.
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thank you,
The Demand Planning
Net Team.
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