Supply Planning Manager

PrimeSource Building Products, Inc., one of the nation’s largest wholesale distributors of building supply products, has an immediate opportunity available for an experienced, reliable, and hard-working Supply Planning Manager to join the team. This position will manage a portfolio of products in terms of matching supply to demand, ensuring 98%+ on-time delivery and 98%+ fill rates to customers, while reducing stock outs at large distribution hubs at the optimum level of inventory in hub and spoke distribution network.

This position will be responsible following. Additional duties may be assigned as necessary:

• Supply Planning Manager provides functional and technical support for existing and future implementations of SAP APO integration with ECC Supply Chain, and related modules to business users and peers.
• Develop strategic plans to guide portfolio reliability and ensure continued service improvement for long term performance.
• Develop a team of supply planners to accurately supply plan for the full SAP horizon.
• Producing a weekly supply plan via ERP (SAP-APO, other) based on the latest consensus demand plan for all active SKU’s.
• Steering and managing team and outcomes via standardized weekly and monthly planning process (Sales and Operations Execution - S&OE, S&OP/ SIOP)
• Provide leadership to direct reports and team members: lead people, systems, and business process for supply chain management.
• Reviews overall supply situation or on assigned portfolio of products and continuously drives KPI’s to improve fill rates, DC in stocks, etc.
• Be responsible for leading a complex portfolio of products, including products with promotional volumes, a diverse set of external manufacturing sites and alternate customer channels, and/or with demand seasonality.
• Leading special projects related to product launches, line extensions, and various supply chain initiatives.
• Review and resolve any tactical inventory rebalancing of inventory between distribution centers for key customers and manage inventory of new and phase-out products.
• Drive scalable business processes and reporting that continues to lead planners to improve fill rates, reduce stock outs, and optimize inventory for categories of products.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of ERP based planning processes and will be accountable for demonstrated use of ERP and supply planning to improve department efficiency.
• Work with commodity management team to escalate supply shortages to supplier executive management to secure supply.
• Provide commodity management team a rolling forecast (by commodity / by supplier) to enable supplier to allocate adequate capacity to meet future needs.
• Develop processes to constantly review and update master data elements and system set ups (e.g., lead times, stocking targets, order quantity, etc.) in SAP-APO
• Monitor and provide actionable feedback on supplier performance to commodity management team
  
  
  

Location(s)

98 - Global Support Center

Additional Essential Functions

Attendance/Punctuality: Is consistently at work and on time; Ensures work responsibilities are covered when absent; Arrives at meeting and appointments on time.

Qualifications:

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, MBA, Management, Business/Administration, Finance, Education, Manufacturing, or Science.

Certifications:

APICS, CPIM, CSCP, APIC, CIRM, CPSM, IBF, MBA, or CSCMP.

Experience:

At least 5-10 years of experience in supply planning function in sizable companies

Computer Skills:

Proficiency with Tier-1 ERPs (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics etc.), ERP planning systems (SAP-APO, Blue Yonder/JDA, SAP-IBP, other), and Microsoft office suite.

PrimeSource Building Products, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. PrimeSource Building Products, Inc. is fully committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) and maintaining a workplace free of discrimination and harassment based on race, gender, religion, age, color, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information and other non-merit factors. All persons shall be afforded equal employment opportunity at PrimeSource Building Products, Inc.

PrimeSource Building Products, Inc. prohibits discrimination in all aspects of its personnel policies, program practices and operations and relationships with employees and applicants, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring and merit promotion. PrimeSource Building Products, Inc. promotes programs of affirmative recruitment and employment at all levels of PrimeSource Building Products, Inc. PrimeSource Building Products, Inc. subscribes to, and will implement to the full extent, all applicable laws that promote equality of opportunity.

PrimeSource Building Products, Inc. welcomes and encourages applications from persons with disabilities, and will reasonably accommodate the needs of those persons. PrimeSource Building Products, Inc. is firmly committed to satisfying its affirmative obligations under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, to ensure that persons with disabilities have every opportunity to be hired and advanced on the basis of merit within PrimeSource Building Products, Inc.