Supply Chain Planner

Job description

Position description

Function

PRODUCTION & OPERATIONS - SUPPLY-CHAIN

Employment Type

Regular Full Time

Main Goal

HM.CLAUSE is a Business Unit of Limagrain, an international agricultural co-operative founded and managed by farmers. HM.CLAUSE specializes in the breeding, production, and sale of vegetable seeds. From the world market to the farmer's market, we collaborate with our customers to deliver successful solutions for the agricultural challenges of today and produce the highest quality vegetable seeds for the future. Our global team of experts and state-of-the-art research facilities enable us to work side-by-side with growers to provide the most regionally relevant and reliable vegetable seeds available.

Job description

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION:
Plans and manages global supply of assigned product categories through the recommendation and implementation of production and supply strategies, turning of stock per: product life cycle, quality and inventory level, customer demands and business objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

Planning – Flow Coordination, Ensure Best Use of Stock, Production Plan
•Plan and Coordinate Supply Chain Planning activities according to Demand while respecting Cost & Operational Constraints
• Monitor Supply Key Performance Metrics on a daily/weekly basis & take corrective actions based on trends
•Analyze, determine and present Supply Production Programs to Internal Stakeholders

Executing – Flow Coordination, Ensure Best Use of Stock, Subcontracting, Quality Interpretation
•Maintain critical inventory parameters including classification and stock allocations per market demand
•Determine and execute processes/ technical paths for stock based according to commercial needs
•Manage stock, set priorities in order to optimize quality tests and factory operations (minimize loss, etc.)
•Determine and launch complementary quality tests
•Pilot projects related to role/scope

Communicating – Sales Interfaces, Team Management/Team-Orientation
•Marketing and Sales meetings: identify market trends to anticipate and prepare appropriate stock levels
•Research, identify market, sales and supply trends to anticipate, prepare and develop a strategy to build and maintain appropriate stock levels.
•Suggest prorates based on supply trend (stock quality, etc.) and exception forecast
•Collaborate with Sales Data Planning (SDP), understand sales trends and dynamics, impact to supply planning
•Consult Seed Supply Managers (SSM) and Product Managers (PM) for proper production placement
•Collaborate with Manufacturing Managers to optimize factory capacity and meet customer demand
•Communicate with urgency, concise analysis of supply constraints to all stakeholders including Inventory Manager, PM, SDP and Quality Control

Continuous Improvement – Ensure Best Use of Stock, Quality Interpretation, Continuous Improvement
•Identify gaps in process that are driving repeat offenses in supply level metrics
•Study quality parameters, trends, genealogies, stock levels and identify root causes using quantitative support
•Adapts to changes in the organization with resourcefulness and strives to increase productivity and improve standards.
•Organize continuous improvement cross-functional initiatives/meetings based on scope

Profile

Education and/or Experience
•Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Agriculture, Engineering or other related fields required
•Minimum of 2 years of direct Supply Chain, Manufacturing, or seed industry experience preferred
•Experience with MPR/ERP (JD Edwards/JDE), SAP or Oracle
•Proficient in a Windows-based PC environment (PowerPoint, Word, Excel required)
•APICS or other certification advantageous

Other Technical Skills & Abilities:
•Working knowledge of Business Intelligence tools or reports
•Ability to create and use MSQuery/Access/SQL/Excel files for complementary analyses

Position localization

Job location

America/Carribean, USA

Location

555 Codoni Avenue, Modesto, CA 95357, États-Unis

Candidate criteria

Minimum level of education required

Bachelor's degree

Minimum level of experience required

2 years or more