Capacity Planner plans, measures, and monitors operating limits and capacities of an organization. Forecasts and plans capacity requirements to ensure alignment with department or unit and determine variance from production schedules, resource levels, and inventory demand. Being a Capacity Planner identifies and troubleshoots production issues or bottlenecks that impact plant capacity. Coordinates with internal stakeholders like engineering, sales, and marketing to understand and develop current and forecasted plans. Additionally, Capacity Planner utilizes manufacturing data and reports to drive key insights into efficiency, production rate, and other performance metrics. Produces reports that evaluate plant capacity and identify areas needing improvement. Recommends process and equipment improvements to optimize production capabilities. Requires a bachelor's degree. Typically reports to a supervisor. The Capacity Planner occasionally directed in several aspects of the work. Gaining exposure to some of the complex tasks within the job function. To be a Capacity Planner typically requires 2 -4 years of related experience. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)
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This position is responsible for all sales forecasting and capacity analysis activity for all manufactured items and associated production work centers. The demand planning responsibilities include the annualized sales quantity forecast by item to support the financial budget plan as well as providing monthly inventory stock levels for the GNC Stock and Customer Specific production group items. Inventory stock levels will be determined by the average daily rate of sales for specific days of coverage as well as include new items and / or additional sales of existing items. The capacity analysis responsibilities include the annual capacity load by month by department / work centers to support the financial budget plan as well as providing a rolling capacity load to include new sales and potential new sales opportunities. Capacity loads will be determined by using trend percentages of actual to the financial budget plan, actual production schedules, and overlaying new sales and new sales opportunities. The Demand Planner / Capacity Analyst is the integration point of new sales opportunities and operations scheduling and capacity planning. This position will be involved in financial budget planning and new item commercialization while interacting with sales, production scheduling, product and equipment engineering, and production.
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