ABBOTT LABORATORIES Supply Planner & Logistics Salary in the United States

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 103,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

The Supply Planner is responsible for production planning for their assigned product(s). Position will be responsible for translating commercial demand and inventory strategies/targets into effective supply plans. Supply Planner will lead production plans that span multiple plants. Incumbent will be required to coordinate with Demand Planning, Operations and other planners to resolve plant scheduling conflicts and capacity constraints.

The Supply Planner is primarily focused on the next 24 months horizon. Incumbent is expected to work independently, with regular support from department management supervision.

Main Responsibilities

• Maintain internal and external customer service levels for products.
• Analyze plant throughput within customer service, capacity, efficiency, and inventory plan framework.
• Assist Program and Project management groups, project activity and schedule of new products, new processes, etc.
• Develop production plans for Plan and Update packages.
• Participate in decision-making meetings on plant manpower loading and/or premium labor (overtime-contract labor).
• Work directly with plants to perform Rough Cut Capacity Planning in support of 24 month planning horizon.
• Present at monthly meetings with plant and division operations to review and implement operations strategies.

Accountability / Scope / Budget

Influence/Leadership:

• Understands business environment and relates extensive knowledge of internal and external activities to trends.
• Interfaces with a variety of management levels on significant matters, often requiring the coordination of activity across organizational units.
• Participates in the development of others by facilitating training and providing feedback and guidance.
• May lead a project team.
• Provides technical leadership to business units.
• Acts as a mentor to less-experienced staff.
• Exercises judgment independently. (Planning/Organization) Plans and organizes project assignments of substantial variety and complexity.
• Initiates or maintains schedule for projects and project milestones.
• Establishes priorities of individual or project assignments. (Decision Making/Impact) Selects methods and techniques to lead a project to completion.
• Erroneous decisions or recommendations would typically result in failure to achieve organizational objectives.

Minimum Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree plus 3+ years of related work experience with a complete understanding of specified functional area, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Experience could be from Materials Management, Manufacturing, Planning, or combined experience. APICS certification or Advanced degree preferred.

Technical/Business Knowledge

• Comprehensive knowledge and application business concepts, procedures and practices.
• Uses in-depth knowledge of business unit functions and cross group dependencies/ relationships.
• Is recognized as an expert in work group.
• Will perform this job in a quality system environment. Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.

Cognitive Skills

• Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors.
• Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Has broad knowledge of various technical alternatives and their potential impact on the business.