Production Planning & Inventory Control Supervisor

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Saint‑Gobain Abrasives offers powerful, precise, user‑friendly solutions, which enable customers to cut, shape, and finish all materials in the most complex and challenging applications. By working closely with end‑users and grinding expert partners, Saint‑Gobain Abrasives designs and provides customized solutions to secure the best option for performance, cost, and safety. Leveraging its global manufacturing presence, Saint‑Gobain Abrasives serves its customers locally through its structured sales operations in more than 即可 countries while employing more than 10,000 people.

Our employees have pride in belonging to an organization whose culture is made up of these core values:
Trust, Empowerment, and Collaboration. Our company encourages diversity and inclusion in all its forms while our products make the world a more beautiful, safer日は sustainable home.

The position is responsible for management of the Supply Chain at our Worcester, MA campus. The primary focus of the role will be to manage, create and improve those processes associated with fulfilling customer orders on time. Those processes will include Receiving/Shipping, Warehousing, Inventory Control, S&OP, Production Planning, and Inventory Management.

This critical role will drive the standardization of processes and training of direct and indirect team members; build a strong team; balance demand with capacities (using our S&OP process); help develop KPI’s & reporting in the operation to maximize on‑time shipping while optimizing productivity; maintain strong inventory controls; create effective communication processes with Plant Manager, Product Management, Customer Service, Central Supply Chain and Sales.

All these activities will be coordinated through our Sales and Operation Planning process to drive collaboration with the entire team and bring them into the planning cycle. This process will include all parties (including those closest to the customer) and drive accountability to the entire team.

• All receiving, shipping, inventory control, production planning and inventory management processes are standardized and well communicated/trained for the teams.
• Print production orders to ensure correct flow of production, processes rejections and print replacements, manage CS911 and KOP processes for expedited critical orders.
• Manage stock orders to ensure Distribution Center is stocked with correct levels of correct products.
• Manage finished and semi‑finished goods inventory.
• Champion and ensure utilization of the CF&S pillar in the SA plant.

• Ensure the receiving, transferring and shipment transactions in SAP are done timely and consistently to drive a high degree of accuracy in SAP.
• Ensure on‑time shipping of inter‑company orders.
• Constant focus on inventory accuracy through a robust cycle count program and aggressive root‑cause/corrective action focus for any variance or loss.
• Ensure 5S of these departments becomes a daily discipline with the teams.

• Asset loading is optimized across all locations to drive shortest lead times and lowest operating costs.
• Responsible for lead‑time analysis and for updating lead‑times in collaboration with Product Management and Customer Service.
• Balancing demand with capacities (S&OP) becomes a core competency and engages all functions.

• Inventory levels are optimized in all areas to maximize profitability and working capital performance.
• Determine the most optimal inventory strategy for each item. The typical strategies currently used are MTO and MTS. However, within MTS determining whether a Push (forecasting) vs a Pull (Kanban reorder points) strategy is most optimal, will be up to this individual.
• Manage inventory levels within the yearly inventory targets.

• Manages department personnel including hiring, promotions, recognition, discipline, and performance management.