Demand Planner

Gleesons has been partnered with a Manufacturing business looking for a Demand Planner / Material Planner

This is a great opportunity for a professional looking to further develop there logistics Career within a well established fast growing business.

Job Title:Demand Planner

Location : Birmingham (Solihull)

Job Duties:

• Plans, coordinates, and executes activities within its domain to effectively achieve business objectives.
• Analyses customer inputs to generate short, mid, and long-term forecasts and schedules, ensuring optimal stock levels to meet customer demand.
• Processes customer orders in the ERP software, aligning production volumes with customer and internal stakeholder agreements.
• Actively supports customer collaboration initiatives to enhance service and manage forecast activities proactively.
• Maintains and updates ERP/MRP system data accurately, aligning planning parameters with group standards.
• Extracts consistent and accurate data sets to drive effective decision-making.
• Reviews forecasts and schedules for performance improvements and cost efficiency's.
• Contributes to key performance indicators, reviews deviations, and proposes corrective actions to achieve KPI targets.
• Monitors customer order variability and provides data inputs for capacity planning reviews.
• Develops and communicates weekly production plans based on customer orders, incorporating established safety stocks per contractual requirements.
• Prepares shipment plans, sales documents, and shipping documents, ensuring product transportation to the customer.
• Manages sales documentation in the ERP software, updating price conditions, information records, clients, and scheduling agreements.
• Handles customer complaint returns by verifying legitimacy with the QS department, updating ERP, and issuing correcting invoices.
• Ensures delivery compliance to customers, resolves back orders, reduces backlog, and minimises special transportation costs.
• Addresses unjustified demand pegging and maintains up-to-date destination shipping requirements, including dealer direct shipments.
• Monitors EDI and CUM release variations, resolving discrepancies.
• Tracks daily and weekly customer release schedules to ensure adherence to due dates.

Ideal Candidate:

• 3 Years Experience in Supply chain & Demand
• Manufacturing Experience
• QBE / Qualifications
• Forecasting , Planning and Data analytics

If you feel that you have any of the above or are interested in a chat about furthering your career please drop me a email on !

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