Demand Planner

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The Demand Planner will partner with Customer Care, Sales, Product Management and Operations management to determine appropriate production schedules that best meet customer and sales demand.

The Demand Planner considers many factors such as raw material availability, production line capacity, and standard lead times promised to customers, on time delivery, and emergent needs of the business both from a sales operations and production operations perspective. The Demand Planner is the direct interface to the sales function that translates the Sales, Inventory, Operations, and Production (SIOP) forecast input into a production operations schedule for factory planning purposes.  They also work directly with the Buyers to decide how much inventory to keep on hand that maximizes just in time material flow, limits factory changeovers and inefficiencies.

Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for complex fulfillment and production plans
• Participate in system or process improvement initiatives to ensure the function has the best tools
• Review and revise production and fulfillment plans as required by changes in the manufacturing schedules
• Act as a liaison between Manufacturing, Customer Care, Sales and Product Management, communicating and troubleshooting issues, problems, and concerns
• Analyzes production plans and inventory reports, availability / requirements for long lead time items to provide production guidance to the manufacturing sites.
• Assist in the expediting finished goods, when necessary, to support customer order fulfillment
• Recommend and implement production and transportation actions when products are in out-of-stock or allocation situations.
• Partners with management/departments on matters related to production or fulfillment planning.
• Utilize Oracle to view material movements, quantities on order, and the current balance on hand to ensure materials needed by the manufacturing plants are available and use this information to analyze trends and plan for future orders.
• Must maintain a well-balanced focus between external and internal customer requirements and possesses.

General Tasks

• Strict compliance with quality, occupational safety, and environmental regulations.
• Implementation of the instructions of the quality / environmental management representative and the occupational safety specialist.

Required Experience, Education, Skills, Training and Competencies

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Business or analytical field required.
• 3+ years’ experience in manufacturing, production management or production planning
• American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) certification (preferred)
• Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) (preferred)
• Knowledge of and experience in Oracle, planning, production scheduling, and shipping functionality and processes
• Knowledge of and experience in the master data (such as BOMs Routings, Item Master Attributes, etc.) that drives the forecasting, planning, production scheduling, and shipping functionality in Oracle
• Knowledge of and experience in inventory management principles
• Knowledge of and experience in production scheduling principles
• Knowledge of and experience in mathematics and statistical data analysis
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Obvious enthusiasm, initiative, and pride in work

Travel Requirements  

• None
   

Physical Requirements

None

Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.

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