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3M Production Planning Analyst 
United States, Iowa 
560202999

08.08.2024

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 and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

  • Planning and scheduling of production work centers, monitor work center output to meet customer requirements and improve work center operational efficiency
  • Procuring material and communicating to suppliers on future requirements to support production plan
  • Strong written or oral communication with Production Planning, Lean Value Stream, and Operations Team members along with active participation in the Tier process
  • Working closely with the business to understand customer requirements and forecasts. Working closely with the manufacturing team, value stream leadership, and Supply Planners to determine how best to prioritize and resolve supply constraints and balance service, inventory, and cost to meet business targets
  • Parameter Management: optimizing and maintaining production lot sizes, production cycles and safety stocks to deliver the desired balance between inventory and service
  • Managing capacity including identifying, resolving, and escalating production constraints
  • Managing assigned working and non-working inventories to maintain compliance and achieve inventory investment targets
  • Executing the production planning standard work utilizing supply chain tools, IT systems, and processes
  • Providing a high degree of planning analysis to support data-driven decision making
  • Identifies, leads, and participates in Continuous Improvement projects that improve customer service, inventory investment, flow, and supply chain efficiency

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)

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

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Supply Chain, Operations Management, and/or Business Analytics from an accredited institution
  • ASCM (APICS) 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.
  • Two (s) years combined experience in supply chain, planning, logistics, and/or manufacturing in a private, public, government or military environment
  • Experience with SAP ERP Software
  • 3M systems experience (Factory Planner, PMCS/IMES, Peoplesoft)
  • Experience in Production Planning
  • Knowledge of Supply Planning (SP), Demand Planning (DP), and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) processes
  • Strong data mining, data analysis, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
  • Advanced Microsoft Suite experience
  • Strong leadership, communication, interpersonal, and self-motivational skills
  • Experience working on cross-functional teams
  • Experience utilizing Lean and Six Sigma / Continuous Improvement methodologies

Work location:

  • Knoxville, IA.

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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