Distribution Center Planner - Weekend Shift

Distribution Center Planner

The Distribution Center (DC) Planner is responsible for maximizing the delivery of orders for direct-to-consumer and retail stores to ensure they ship within 24 hours of receipt by analyzing historical data to wave / schedule orders in an efficient manner. This role focuses on optimizing logistics operations, inventory management, transportation planning, and coordinating with various departments to meet customer demand while minimizing costs. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, experience in supply chain planning, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.

Responsibilities :

• Owns the execution of scheduling / waving product based on the direction of the Distribution Planning Manager to optimize delivery to our stores within 24-48 hours of demand generation.
• Supports executing systematic waves for off-shifts to ensure there is a consistent flow of work for the production teams that matches the agreed upon capacity of each department.
• Owns reviewing all orders aged greater than 24 hours, and investigating what is required to promptly ship the orders in partnership with operations leadership team.
• Is the SME (subject-matter-expert) in the DC's waving strategy and implementation changes to waving templates as customer requirements change.
• Must partner with other DCs operations leaders daily to align on capacity to ensure the correct number of orders are being released and shipped in the correct order.
• Owns reviewing the site's capacity plan to provide feedback to the operations leadership team if there is a risk it will not support customer demand.
• Must support reviewing supplies weekly to provide feedback to procurement manager on any risks of product that might run out and needs to be re-ordered.
• Assist with departmental workflow as needed by the site leadership team.
• Drive continuous improvement strategies within department and across the entire network.
• Communicate issues or problems quickly to supervisors and operations managers.
• Assist in resolving issues and solving problems by making suggestions and partnering with supervisors, operations managers and other departments.
• Assist in Sneaker Finder and DTC when needed.
• Must become the onsite WM SME for operations and develop expertise within production control team.
• Ability to respond with a sense of urgency and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Work with co-workers in a professional, respectful, cooperative, and courteous manner.
• All other duties as assigned.

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