Packaging Component Planner
What's the Role
The purpose of the Component Planner role is to plan and schedule all inbound components and finished goods to a blending facility in North America to ensure that components are available to deliver the bulk and pack production plan each day. This role has an indirect influence to ensure a high customer service index (CSI) score as well as meeting internal supply chain metrics such as inventory targets (DIO) and on time/in full delivery (OTIF). Some of the materials schedulers will also interact with the third-party plants that Shell uses in the network to manage both components as well as finished good planning.
What you'll be doing
These roles will be focused on one to two plants for the daily work but will also be expected to be able to cover other areas of the US network as needed and work within the E2E Performance Team to deliver team targets. A Materials Scheduler will also be expected to work with the operations team at the plant(s) to ensure their components are available for the daily production schedule as well as communicate back to a broader team if there are delays/changes that impact product availability. As such, the Materials Scheduler has a very significant impact on customer experience and overall supply chain performance for pack and bulk finished goods, as if the components are not available then the production schedule will be negatively impacted, which will filter down to product availability concerns for our customers. This is mostly an operational and tactical role, but a successful applicant will also need to show commercial knowledge when taking in to account inventory targets for their components.
To manage priorities:
Analyses production performance against KPIs, diagnosesissues hindering performance and makesrecommendations for improvements.
Influencing skills to accomplish tasks with aggressive deadlines particularly making strong proposals where trade-off decisions are required
What you bring
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
Ability to make decisions in a timely manner with incomplete and changing information
Ability to root cause issues and take corrective actions quickly
Customer/commercial focused
Demonstrate proactive thinking to work to improve/adjust the supply chain prior to any disruption
Self-starter who can apply Continuous Improvement thinking and practices (prior CI training is a plus)
Technical Skills / Capacity to pick up new systems quickly: SAP APO/GSAP, DDMRP and Microsoft Excel
Key Challenges
Learning a planning system (DDMRP) and using it in the daily standard work
Changing customer expectations across multiple market segments and the associated complexities that this will bring
Supporting various new product launches and transitions and coordinating with PLM and other teams to deliver on customer expectations
Working through competing priorities, especially around inventory and customer delivery targets
Working virtually with LOBPs, production schedulers and other Houston based colleagues
Skills & Requirements
Ability to manage an ever-changing scope of activities based on the business needs
Supply Chain Project Management – Knowledge
Facility Operations – Knowledge
Value Chain Management & E2E Profitability – Knowledge
Commercial & Economic Acumen – Knowledge
Supply Chain Customer Service – Knowledge
Supply Chain Integration & Management – Skill
Supply Chain Scheduling & Analysis – Skill
Supply Chain Tactical Planning – Skill
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