Job Title: Supply Chain Manager Background: Milliken & Company is a privately owned, diverse multi-national innovation company. Milliken's Floorcovering Division provides commercial carpet, entrance systems and LVT into the commercial flooring industry along with mats into the rental services industry and is rapidly expanding its product range and global routes to market. The Floorcovering Division has plants and warehouses in multiple locations in the Americas, Europe and Asia and serves customers in over 120 countries.
Responsibilities:
• Supply Planning leadership for Americas tufting and yarn manufacturing. Owns the execution of the agreed upon plan that was created by Sales & Marketing, Development and Operations
• Working closely with other Production Scheduling managers to ensure supply plans are correctly executed and monitored using appropriate KPIs.
• Leads the Duncan Stewart Plant supply chain team in order to ensure proper execution of the planning process. Including but not limited to the following tasks.
• Planning materials using SAP MRP, ensuring material availability, system cleanliness and having a good understanding of the principles of MRP.
• Troubleshooting of problems within SAP and having or developing sufficient system knowledge to achieve super-user status.
• Creating manufacturing and purchasing schedules which achieve customer needs at a justifiable cost.
• Maintaining and reviewing inventory levels in line with company targets.
• Carrying out administrative activities related to inventory adjustments and assisting in the management of physical inventories.
• Ensuring company On Time in Full delivery targets are achieved.
• Managing and maintaining good information flow with other departments. Being able to collaborate on solutions that do not sub-optimize the whole.
• Proactively and continuously improving personal and departmental performance.
• Maintaining professional relationships with external suppliers.
Person specification:
• Experience of planning in an MRP system. SAP is an advantage.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills. Comfortable with the use of Formulas, Pivot Tables, VLookups
• Proactively and continuously improving personal and departmental performance.
• 5+ years of experience working in Supply Chain.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills essential and a good understanding of statistics.
• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering or other numerical subject preferred.
- Professional Supply Chain Qualification a strong preference: CSCP, CPSM or equivalent such as MITx Micromasters are an advantage.
• The correct person is likely to view this role as progression to a wider SC management role and possess the necessary management and leadership skills to do so, being comfortable interacting at all levels within the company and able to develop technical skills in others.
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