What are the responsibilities and job description for the Planner I position at Ortho Clinical Diagnostics?
The Career Potential
Ortho Clinical Diagnostics is committed to improving and saving lives with diagnostics. To do this we hire people who share this dream and are ready for new adventures. As a valued team member, you will carve your own career path and be part of building this company stronger and better than ever before. There is no limit to the experiences, opportunities and new directions you will have access to here at Ortho Clinical Diagnostics. More importantly, you will be driving the surge of a whole new direction in important medicine. That’s something we can all take pride in as we take this journey together.
Ortho is known in the industry as a leader in customer service and support. Deeply understanding and exceeding the needs of our clinical lab, hospital and blood bank customers is what we do. It’s who we are. If you join Ortho, no matter what your role, you will be expected to keep that Customer Excellence focus in your work.
The Opportunity
This position is responsible for planning and managing production schedules to meet customer delivery requirements and best utilize the company's productive capacity as well as managing inventory levels. Responsible for prioritizing production requirements and coordinating the flow of materials to meet production schedules.
This position is in Raritan, NJ.
The Responsibilities
Develop supply plan (MPS) in order to align manufacturing capacity with sales demand, while working to optimize inventory levels.
Review the planned orders schedule for multiple stages of manufacturing and create firm orders within the frozen period (MRP).
Work with Manufacturing and Quality team to ensure orders are completed on time and in full or rescheduled within constrained situations.
Monitor WIP materials for upcoming expiration and mitigate scrap.
Update schedules for planned downtime in production for maintenance, holidays or other events.
Partner with Buyers to ensure raw material availability for production requirements.
Drive S&OP discussion and highlight potential supply risk to business
Work with Warehouse to coordinate outbound shipment schedules.
The Individual
Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain or other relevant fields or related experience in the field.
1-2 years of related experience in supply chain
APICS CPIM certification preferred
EOE/AA Disability/Veteran