PepsiCo Hiring for Production Planner at Purchase, NY Full Time

Overview

Responsibilities

• The role of the production planner is to manage the finished goods production planning and inventory management activities for assigned finished goods at the plant and co-packers while ensuring achievement of customer service goals and minimizing operating cost, inventory investment and waste
• Responsible production and deployment of finished goods cases across a minimum of 8 plants/ co-packers and production lines
• Provide national inventory/ production oversight for key Contract Ops brands
• Develop clear understanding of end to end supply chain process from make site, to mixing centers and into PBC warehouses
• Effectively utilize and master the suite of ISCP planning tools to generate timely production plans. These plans must be communicated along with revisions each week to the co-packers, material vendors and internal customers
• Effectively utilize Replenishment Planning tool and STO process to generate timely replenishment orders as well as monitor deployment and delivery of appropriate inventory levels to the warehouses
• Understanding of inventory levels for packaging materials to meet the needs of finished goods production
• Monitor inventory replenishment plans for the effective and timely launch of new products and promotional activities. This includes working with the Integration Manager, Contract Manufacturing Manager, Logistics and Transportation
• TPO Process: Monitor inventories of items that are to be discontinued to eliminate / minimize scrap dollars. Including finished goods, semi – finished goods, ingredients and materials
• EPQI: Monitor weekly freshness s to develop a game plan to address products that will not meet freshness targets
• Ability to communicate effectively with senior leaders within Supply Chain
• Ability to backup other planners in the department as needed

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• Attention to detail
• Ability to reprioritize workload to ensure most critical needs are addressed and met
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills required
• SAP Experience
• Tableau Experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to influence

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