Supply Chain Planner
Abbott
- Sligo
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Open/Maintain/Release Process orders.
- Batch Determine Process Order Components.
- Generate Lot Assignment sheets
- Generating purchase requisitions as necessary and ensuring the material is released within the agreed timescale.
- Changing/updating existing BOM to ensure accurate and timely customer requirements.
- Maintain accurate inventory transactions, Quantities and due dates.
- Prepare documentation for the disposal of all obsolete or rejected materials in accordance with the company policies and procedures.
- Monitor and Control inventories of Bulk suppliers W.I.P and finished products ensuring achievement of plant inventory level goals.
- Maintain high standard in housekeeping, GMP and Safety.
- Contingency Planning when have technical or supply issues.
- Execute to the production schedule by ensuring Process Orders are available, Batch Determinations are completed, material availability, technical issues are resolved. Minimize distressed inventory particularly lot ends.
- Generate and Maintain MLC’s.
- Create and maintain the ERP data in accordance with company policy and procedures. Track router accuracy, lead-times, yields, qty pers and ensure systems and batch planning sheets are updated accordingly. Track FG dating guarantees, incoming batch sizes and dating guarantees.
- Hold Report & Reserve report Responsibility
- Reviewing Material at risk of Expiring Report
- Support rest of team on adhoc basis as directed by your Team Leader / Manager
- Order pegging by completing Batch Determination from Bulk to Kitpack.
- Issue production monitoring reports such pipeline analysis, critical elevation forms and others as required.
- Attend min balance report and new part introduction meetings
- Provide training for planning group
- Be system experts for planning
- Support financial planning exercise for Plan and updates
- Support BEx projects as required
- Co-ordinate and participate in Ramp Up /Ramp Down
- Complete all activities in a safer manner ensuring that any potential safety issues and areas for improvement are addressed.
- Ensure Environmental procedures eg recycling, waste minimization are adhered to and improvements made where possible.
- Approve Change requests for planning group as required
- Identify and participate in continuous improvement projects, process simplification, system enhancements and automation of activities (e.g. reports and plan exercise).
- Appropriate qualification in either Purchasing/Productions Planning e.g. Diploma in Purchasing or relevant APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society) examinations or General Degree with relevant Manufacturing experience, this will provide a basic understanding of the planning techniques being used in AIDD, which is required for the position.
- At least two years experience in production planning in a manufacturing company. Preferably previous experience with planning short shelf life products. Overall experience required is 3 years. This experience will ensure that planning related issues are understood and dealt with in a well balanced and professional manner.
- Planners will provide leadership and direction to their respective areas of planning responsibilities in the plant to meet the commitments.
- Contacts with all levels of management within the plant.
- Contacts with Abbott personnel in other affiliates especially in planning shipping/distribution/marketing.
- A high level of expertise is required in solving scheduling, logistics, expediting and purchasing problems.
- Planning related issues must be dealt with quickly, otherwise they could result in a production shutdown.
Sligo : Finisklin RoadADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:WORK SHIFT: Ie - Shftpre0 (Ireland)TRAVEL: NoMEDICAL SURVEILLANCE: YesSIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES: Not Applicable