Associate Production Planner
The Associate Production Planner supports production planning at Buffalo Trace Distillery; Supports production planning functions to ensure that the appropriate amount of inventory is held to meet customer service goals while minimizing carrying costs and improving production efficiencies; Ensure finished goods items are available for customer requested ship dates
Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following :
- Help to create a production plan to support forecasted demand
- Communicate with and support production planning and distribution to ensure that all reasonable customer requests and expectations are met or exceeded
- Monitor aging orders and work with distribution and logistics to ship these orders as quickly as possible and speed up revenue cycle
- Help to manage inventory of produced and non-produced goods to support customer demand.
Qualifications / Requirements
Required Qualifications for Position :
Minimum 5 years successful work experienceExcellent oral and written communication skillsStrong analytical and technical skillsStrong planning and organizational skillsWorking knowledge of MS Office Products (Word, Excel and Outlook)Ability to project a professional imageStrong interpersonal skillsPreferred Qualifications for Position :
Undergraduate degree preferredExperience in manufacturing software, such as ERP, MRP, MPS, WMSAPICS Certification or Six Sigma CertificationExperience in development of query programs on AS400 or similar proficiencyExperience in the alcohol beverage industry#LI-JC1