DEMAND PLANNER

$54,220 - $73,196/Yr

Ledbetter Packing Co - Denver, CO

Full-time - Mid Level

Denver, CO

Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods

About the position

As a Demand Planner at Empire Packing, you will play a crucial role in managing direct contact with customers and handling their requests. This includes overseeing inbound and outbound deliveries of case-ready meat products from various plants. You will be responsible for writing and managing orders, ensuring accuracy, committing to inventory, and promising delivery dates based on material availability, customer needs, and production schedules. Your role will also involve assisting in managing inventory levels to meet customer demands while controlling costs. This includes managing costs from suppliers to the procurement system to ensure proper billing to stores, maintaining inventory levels to support shelf life expectations, and communicating raw material forecasts based on scan projections and shipment reports. In addition, you will manage demand exceptions related to compliance, forecast bias, and anomalies, maximizing the accuracy of the demand schedule by analyzing historical projections against actuals. You will support supply and production planning by prioritizing inventory needs, forecasting new items, and managing product phase-outs and special builds. Establishing production plans and priorities based on customer requirements will also be a key responsibility. You will oversee the logistics of customer and supplier demands, tracking performance of supply chain and logistics KPIs such as inventory turns, fill rates, and planned costs versus actual costs. Utilizing ERP platforms and other tools, you will conduct analyses for forecast availability and accuracy, working with cross-functional teams to ensure that any activities affecting forecasts are accounted for in monthly projections. Additionally, you will coordinate order changes in production scheduling and shipping, resolving daily issues related to material rejections and production changes due to equipment breakdowns.

Responsibilities

• Manage direct contact with customers and customer requests.
• Oversee inbound and outbound deliveries of case ready meat plant products for numerous plants.
• Write and manage orders including advertised features, parity priced items, bi-products, and weekly turn business.
• Receive orders from buying team and customers, check for accuracy, commit to inventory, and promise delivery dates based on availability of materials, customer needs, and production schedules.
• Assist in managing inventory levels sufficient to customer demands while controlling costs.
• Help manage costs from suppliers to the Procurement system to ensure proper billing to stores.
• Manage proper inventory levels to support shelf life expectations and control product freshness.
• Communicate raw material forecasts based on scan projections and shipment reports.
• Manage demand exceptions related to out of compliance demand, forecast bias, and demand anomalies.
• Maximize accuracy of the demand schedule by analyzing historical projections vs. actuals.
• Support Supply/Production planning through prioritizing inventory needs, new items forecasts, product phase out, and special builds.
• Establish production plans and priorities based on customer requirements.
• Oversee logistics of customer/supplier demands.
• Track performance of supply chain and logistics KPIs (inventory turns, fill rates, days of inventory outstanding, planned costs vs actual costs, etc.).
• Maintain and update demand forecast dates.
• Utilize ERP platform and other tools to conduct analysis for forecast availability and accuracy.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure that any activity affecting forecasts are accounted for in monthly projections.
• Coordinate order changes in production scheduling and shipping.
• Resolve daily problems about material rejections and production changes due to equipment breakdowns.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management or equivalent experience.
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in supply chain, operations, or logistics.
• Excellent computer skills, particularly in Microsoft Office, Excel, and Access.
• Experience with Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tools.
• Ability to communicate effectively with management on all levels and be customer-focused.
• Excellent attention to detail, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to multi-task, work well under pressure, and be flexible with work schedule.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Paid sick time