Capacity Planner jobs in Evanston, IL

SUMMARY

This position is responsible for all sales forecasting and capacity analysis activity for all manufactured items and associated production work centers. The demand planning responsibilities include the annualized sales quantity forecast by item to support the financial budget plan as well as providing monthly inventory stock levels for the GNC Stock and Customer Specific production group items. Inventory stock levels will be determined by the average daily rate of sales for specific days of coverage as well as include new items and / or additional sales of existing items. The capacity analysis responsibilities include the annual capacity load by month by department / work centers to support the financial budget plan as well as providing a rolling capacity load to include new sales and potential new sales opportunities. Capacity loads will be determined by using trend percentages of actual to the financial budget plan, actual production schedules, and overlaying new sales and new sales opportunities. The Demand Planner / Capacity Analyst is the integration point of new sales opportunities and operations scheduling and capacity planning. This position will be involved in financial budget planning and new item commercialization while interacting with sales, production scheduling, product and equipment engineering, and production.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provides previous year's rollover of actual / forecasted sales by item by customer to the sales group as the starting point of new fiscal year financial sales budget plan
• Works with sales group on annualized financial sales budget plan adjustments including new and discontinued items, new and discontinued customers, sell price trade agreement adjustments
• Uploads financial sales budget into system to provide total sales revenue number and machine hours required
• Uses financial budget machine hours to determine capacity load by month by work center
• Uses financial budget capacity plan to determine production staffing requirements by work center by department
• Monthly analyzes sales movement by item of GN Stock and Customer Specific items and identifies trends to determine inventory stock levels required
• Monthly provides production scheduling with schedule quantities by month for 3 months (covering 4 months of requirements) for all items in the GNC Stock and Customer Specific production groups

• Weekly involvement in the stage gate commercialization process, reviewing capacity requirements to incorporate potential new opportunities into a rolling quarterly twelve month capacity model
• Monthly provides sales with quarterly increments of capacity availability over a rolling 12 month period by work center using historical trends to financial plan and layering in new opportunities
• Monitors and identifies capacity constraints and provides volume justification to support capital investment additional capacity

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS

• 7 years of increasing responsibilities as a production scheduler / demand planner / capacity analyst / project management within a multi-functional "job shop" type food manufacturing environment
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Excellent computer skills and proficient in excel, word, power point, and outlook
• Experience with ERP / MRP programs / systems
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Team concept (employee empowerment / engagement) management style
• Excellent time management and organizational skills with the ability to multi task in a fast paced / opportunistic environment
• Ability to measure / monitor inventory stock levels and capacity demand / availability
• Strong mathematical and analytical skills
• Ability to create a future vision and implement strategies towards accomplishing that vision - continuous improvements
• Ability to analyze a process flow, identify root cause process breakdowns, and implement process changes / improvements / corrective actions
• Develop goals and objectives; monitor / measure with key performance indicators (KPI’s)
• Strong leadership skills – providing clear expectations and responsibilities
• Bachelors degree in Business / Demand Planning / Scheduling