Demand Planner

Job Description

Demand Planner

Contract

On site- Bedford, MA

Pay rate : $ 40-48 / hr

Must Haves :

• 2+ years of experience in production planning / demand planning
• Manufacturing industry
• Oracle
• Excel ( Pivot tables, V-lookup)

Plus :

Summary

The Demand Planner will partner with Customer Care, Sales, Product Management and Operations management to determine appropriate production schedules that best meet customer and sales demand. This position also serves at the subject matter expert on how to best utilize the Oracle MRP to increase the efficiency and accuracy of the production schedule.

The Demand Planner considers many factors such as raw material availability, production line capacity, and standard lead times promised to customers, on time delivery, and emergent needs of the business both from a sales operations and production operations perspective. The Demand Planner is the direct interface to the sales function that translates the Sales, Inventory, Operations, and Production (SIOP) forecast input into a production operations schedule for factory planning purposes. They also work directly with the Buyers to decide how much inventory to keep on hand that maximizes just in time material flow, limits factory changeovers and inefficiencies.

Primary Responsibilities