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Kinder's Premium Quality Seasonings & Sauces · 3 months ago

Product Supply Operations Planner, Liquid

Walnut Creek, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$120K/yr - $130K/yr

3+ years exp

Kinder's is a privately held, founder-led company known for its flavor-obsessed culture and innovative approach in the food industry. They are seeking a Product Supply Operations Planner to manage and optimize supply chain processes, ensuring efficient product delivery and alignment with customer demand. The role involves collaboration with various teams to enhance planning and operational processes while maintaining high customer satisfaction levels.

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Responsibilities

Assess short term inventory needs aligned to deliver metrics ensuring high levels of Customer Order fill rates coordinating with Contract manufacturers, Quality and Fulfilment teams

Facilitate collaboration meetings with stakeholders and vendors to review completed and scheduled production jobs and review any operational issues impacting short term production

Proactively identify and escalate issues that could jeopardize supply including raw material or packaging constraints, quality holds, production issues. Actively support the decision-making process to resolve these issues. Additionally, identify potential future capacity constraints and bottlenecks, and escalate material concerns

Collaborate with purchasing, planning, logistics/warehousing, and commercial teams to provide input on capacity planning assumptions and performance measures

Partner with cross functional teams to drive speed to market initiatives in the execution of new product launches, product change projects and demand shaping activities

Coordinate Co-manufacturer start-ups and capacity enhancements for both short-term and long-term needs to ensure a phased scaling-up process

Adopt a continuous improvement mindset to enhance planning and operational processes

Data Analysis: Create, Review & Action against the Master Production Schedule for all Finished Good items

Reporting: Track and review Key Performance Indicators such as schedule adherence, attainment, inventory turns, customer service and days on hand and take appropriate action to meet or exceed targets

Review firm order demand, new sales or marketing demand and current levels of inventory to monitor emergent demand

Assist in process improvement efforts around SAP B1 functionality and fundamental inventory/production planning methodologies

Work with internal and external resources to actively ensure that each initiative delivers on-time, and that inventory & customer service levels meet and/or exceed targets

Work closely with inventory personnel to ensure that inventory transactions are accurately accounted for

Ensure cost effective supply chain execution and/or escalation of exceptions/trade-offs

Assist in the documenting and upkeep of the team’s SOP’s