Production Planner

Activities and Responsibilities

• Cycle count inventory and maintain an accurate inventory count for your product type all year long.
• Plans and manages production schedules to meet customer delivery requirements and best utilize the company's productive capacity.
• Analyzes sales order releases with respect to capacity planning and material requirements.
• Manages inventory levels, notify management of inventory issues, work with other departments well.
• Answers order termination or cancellation requests from sales.
• Reviews work in process material on production floor.
• Receives and reviews sales orders against current requirements and work in process using the material requirement planning report. (MRP)
• Interfaces with manufacturing personnel, the purchasing department and supervisors on material status and production planning issues.
• Performs purchasing duties on "outside process materials" including order placement, expediting, coordinating receipt of material in production sequencing, and act as liaison with quality and engineering departments.
• Maintains/updates manufacturing system/MRP system for assigned product types.