3M Production Planning Analyst Monroe NC 

United States, Louisiana, Monroe 

632597548

Production Planning Analyst

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
As a Production Planning Analyst, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Schedules procurement and manufacturing for a specified group of products. Reviews material flow parameters such as order quantity, lot size, make cycle frequency, replenishment interval, and recommends appropriate levels to support the business/customer requirements.
• Manages raw material and semi-finished inventory buffer quantities. Monitors and reports capacity requirements, special order and stock service levels. Continuously works to improve the planning and scheduling process.
• Identifies ways to improve customer service, inventory investment, and supply chain efficiency to achieve measurable results; participates in implementation.
• Lead cross functional projects across the business to effectively drive change in service, cost, and inventory. Develops and maintains operating rhythms to ensure smooth supply chain operations, aligning supply with
• Identifies and leads projects that improve supply chain speed and inventory investment. Review and reports on project progress with management.
• Works closely with the business unit to understand customer requirements and forecasts. Works closely with manufacturing to ensure alignment to business requirements by setting and maintaining sufficient inventory levels and lead times.
• Actively manage working and non-working inventories in assigned businesses to maintain compliance and achieve inventory investment targets.
• Utilize Supply Chain tools and processes such as SAP, EWM, Power BI. Utilize Lean Six Sigma methodologies to improve service, inventory turns, and non-working inventory Utilize Supply Chain parameter management tools to optimize planning parameters (safety stock, lot size,EOQ, Loop & Supermarket, lead time demand.
• Maintains relevant planning master data and supports new product introduction and phase-in phase out material business processes, and associated change management processes.
• Provides a high degree of planning analysis to support decision making. Publishes and presents service and inventory metrics and results.

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution.
• Three (3) years of experience in supply chain, transportation, logistics, manufacturing, production, and/or customer service in a private, public, government or military environment

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society) CPIM certification is preferred. If not
  complete at the time this position is assumed, the certification will become part of the employee
  professional development plan as agreed between management and the employee.
• Proficient in Microsoft office – Excel, PowerPoint, Word
• Experience with Manufacturing Execution and/or Planning System (e.g. SAP)
• Six Sigma Green Belt project experience and/or certification
• Experience in Lean Scheduling or Lean Manufacturing
• Experience with Microsoft VBA Macros, SQL, MS Cloud Apps (e.g. Teams, SharePoint, Power BI).

Work location:

• Monroe, North Carolina, USA

Please note: your application may not be considered if you do not provide your education and work history, either by: 1) uploading a resume, or 2) entering the information into the application fields directly.

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