Description
The Production Planning Analyst will join the 3M Brownwood facility in Texas and support production planning operations. The role involves managing the end-to-end supply chain, ensuring customer requirements and supply chain metrics are met.
Key responsibilities:
- Manage the supply plan by purchasing raw materials, scheduling production, and managing finished good inventory
- Coordinate with other 3M locations, external suppliers, and business teams to meet service, cost, and inventory targets
- Provide planning analysis to support data-driven decision making
- Use data analytics to publish and present service and inventory metrics, results, and gap analysis
- Optimize and maintain production lot sizes, production cycles, and safety stocks to balance inventory and service
- Identify and implement supply chain process improvement projects
- Collaborate with the business team to understand customer requirements and forecasts
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or higher and two years of supply chain experience
- Master's degree in supply chain, management, or business may be substituted for experience
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with Factory Planner or another MRP or ERP application
- Project management and leadership experience
- Data analytics experience
- Collaborative and interpersonal skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
Benefits:
- Competitive pay and benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, health savings accounts, and retirement benefits