Ledbetter Packing Co - Denver, CO
posted 2 months ago
As a Demand Planner at Empire Packing, you will play a crucial role in managing customer interactions and ensuring the smooth operation of our supply chain processes. Your primary responsibility will be to handle direct contact with customers, managing their requests and overseeing the inbound and outbound deliveries of case-ready meat products from multiple plants. This includes writing and managing orders that encompass advertised features, parity-priced items, by-products, and weekly turn business. You will receive orders from the buying team and customers, ensuring accuracy, committing to inventory, and promising delivery dates based on material availability, customer needs, and production schedules. In addition to customer management, you will assist in maintaining inventory levels that meet customer demands while controlling costs. This involves managing costs from suppliers to the procurement system to ensure proper billing to stores, as well as maintaining appropriate inventory levels to support shelf life expectations and product freshness. You will be responsible for communicating raw material forecasts based on scan projections and shipment reports, managing demand exceptions related to compliance, forecast bias, and anomalies, and maximizing the accuracy of the demand schedule by analyzing historical projections against actuals. Your role will also include overseeing logistics related to customer and supplier demands. You will track the performance of supply chain and logistics KPIs, maintain and update demand forecast dates, and utilize ERP platforms and other tools for analysis. Collaboration with cross-functional teams will be essential to ensure that any activities affecting forecasts are accounted for in monthly projections. You will coordinate order changes in production scheduling and shipping, resolving daily issues related to material rejections and production changes due to equipment breakdowns.