Planning and Scheduling Specialist II

Work Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Shift: No
Department: LS-SC-DLPD3 Proc. Planning 3
Recruiter: Beverly Dellisola

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Your Role:

MilliporeSigma is hiring a Planning and Scheduling Specialist II. This role will encompass forecasting, operations planning, and procurement planning functions. You will be involved in reviewing and adjusting demands at a global and local level, compiling long and short term capacity plans, and ensuring supply chain planning designs are set to achieve global service and inventory objectives. A P&S specialist is responsible for between $5M and $50M in total inventory.

Responsibilities:

• Review demand plans at a global and local level, including adjusting forecast and safety stock parameters.
• Work with the sales group to incorporate customer demands into the planning systems.
• Develop operational schedules to meet customer service objectives and support sales growth plans at the lowest overall inventory costs.
• Develop, test and execute models for scheduling operations.
• Lead and/or assist process improvement initiatives.
• Compile reports and metrics to ensure business has proper feedback loops on performance to objectives.

• Use APO or other scheduling software techniques to optimize production schedules.
• Analyze planned orders, requirements, and system designs with a view to global MilliporeSigma supply chain impact.

• Identify scheduling constraints and test various methods and strategies in order to reduce or eliminate those constraints (i.e. bulk size, availability, fill time, warehouse space)
• Develop SAP generated reports various performance measures to identify opportunities for refinement of strategies, process improvement, and testing.
• Manage SAP exception messages and act on recommended plan changes. Including expediting or rescheduling purchase orders.
• Work closely with purchasing and production to ensure bulk availability and packaging requirements including supplies
• Work with global planning teams as needed to ensure planning designs and requirements are coordinated across the entire supply chain
• Analyzes reports and participates in projects to eliminate backorders, optimize inventory and increase customer service.

• Support business unit objectives

Who You Are:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Mathematics, Supply Chain Management or other Business field
• 1+ years of experience moving material through the product delivery cycle
• 1+ years of experience in supply chain, forecasting or planning/scheduling

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience moving material through the product delivery cycle
• 2+ years of experience in supply chain, forecasting or planning/scheduling
• Certification from APICs

• Strong computer skills (SAP, Excel, Access, SQL, etc.)

• Knowledge of ISO standards (in relation to preparing documents)
• Basic scheduling techniques and material requirements planning knowledge
• Ability to work independently and adhere to deadlines
• Ability to communicate at different levels of the business
• High sense of urgency
• Extremely organized and detail oriented
• Proficient in spreadsheets and databases
• Proficient in data analysis

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