Multi-Color Corporation Hiring for Supply Planner – Manufacturing at Rosemont, IL, United States Full Time

Build your Career with an Industry Leader

Multi-Color Corporation and Fort Dearborn have merged and are now the world’s largest prime label and packaging supplier.

Join the new MCC and you will have the opportunity to become part of an organization that has been committed to excellence and industry leadership for over 110 years.

This position is responsible for developing Supply Plans for their Segment(s) (e.g., Core Cut & Stack, Roll Fed, etc. ) with sufficient detail to identify crewing for key operations over the next 3-12 months, and equipment required over the next 36 months to satisfy both firm demand plans and the range of expected growth.

Why work at MCC :

• Compensation : $70-80k annually
• Generous benefits package including medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance and 401(k)
• Paid Holidays : New Years, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, plus two floating Holidays

Responsibilities :

• Comprehensive Supply Planning responsibility for one the household and personal care business segment.
• Orchestrating the Integrated Tactical Planning process to develop, communicate and execute the feasible Supply Plans developed in the Sales and Operational Planning process, and ensure alignment with the Service, Ops and Support teams for plan execution on a weekly and monthly level.

This includes developing and maintaining the Rough-Cut Capacity model for your segment(s) in Excel or in other planning tools that we may implement.

Assigning customer brands to plants and presses that ensure planned utilization of crewed assets that balances Demand and Supply using the detailed demand plan, planned job size, and demonstrated plant / press.

performance. This includes analysis of new business estimates and RFQ’s to determine what resources are required to support the new brand from production capacity.

Monitor actual bookings and load vs forecasted demand using the current bookings and load tracking tools. Monitor service to target (OTIF, Past Due backlog).

Communicate with Sales and Ops about potential issues as well as coordinating segment countermeasures to rebalance load on a temporary or permanent basis.

Lead Segment Plan Adherence Reviews with leadership for key resources in Sales, Graphics and Operations in order to monitor performance to plan, and capture and communicate issue resolution.

Maintain the current action registers that capture key countermeasures to ensure high service and plan / budget attainment.

Analysis of how mix influences the labor required to satisfy demand or impacts cost in the segment. Define / refine tools and analysis to set item complexity codes, monitor trends and identify the impact of demand mix on capacity.

This includes the summary / family information required for your segment(s) supply planning models.

• Monitoring demand shifts and breakdown for business trends by Market within your segment(s) and their impact on our capacity and throughput.
• Work with support teams in Demand Planning, Graphics, IT, Inventory Planning, Plant Scheduling and Finance to maintain and improve systemization and standard usage and reporting.

Eliminate nonvalue added steps from planning process.

Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 3 years’ experience in manufacturing planning systems which should include inventory management, planning and / or distribution or a minimum of 5-10 years’ experience in related field (experience in the printing industry preferred)
• Working knowledge of ERP systems (Globetek a plus)
• Firm understanding of the parameters and calculations that drive rough cut capacity plans
• Must be able to deal with problems involving a few variables. Must understand when to involve manager in the problem solving process.
• Excellent written and verbal two-way communication skills
• Able to process large amounts of data, influence others and drive cross-functional alignment and be able to communicate at various levels within the organization.
• Able to work in a fast-paced team environment while managing personal schedule and exhibit flexibility to support multiple projects while meeting deadlines.
• Proficiency with Excel, Access, PowerPoint and other MS office tools is essential.
• Travel required to Plants, Customers and / or partner locations.
• APICS certification preferred.

Other considerations :

Travel requirement : For the first 3-6 months travel will be up to 50%, after introductory period up to 30% travel.

MCC welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

MCC is an equal opportunity employer.

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