About Kerry Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.About the role

Drives asset utilization across the Supply Chain and Plant network, engaging with Demand Partners and the S&OP process to balance supply and capacity against the demand plan, creating and sharing the Master Production Schedules (MPS) with the Production Scheduler at the plant, so they can develop the finite production schedule, optimising the use of Kerry Manufacturing Assets while maximizing service to our external and internal customers.

Key responsibilities

Supply Planner is responsible for the area of Supply Planning within the Supply Chain function at defined area, including:

•    Responsible for utilizing the commercial depletion demand signal, on-hand inventory, and inventory targets with DC replenishment requirements. Enable & deliver a comprehensive network supply plan within SAP which meet all financial requirements, operational capabilities, and service objectives including OTIF.

•    Communicates and interacts with demand planners, customer management, supply planners, sales, and finance to provide distributor and replenishment plans and exception-based reporting for assigned BU (Customer PSI and predictive OTIF reports). Makes recommendations on actions needed to meet actual and forecasted demand.

•    Responsible for reviewing that the system generated planned order generations align and are correctly converted to process orders within downstream detailed production scheduling horizon.

•    Responsible for generating supply plans and dispatching materials to our third party manufactures to ensure service to our customers. 

•    Responsible for managing aging finished goods as part of Kerry’s inventory control tower process. Supply Planner partners with commercial, demand planning, and senior supply chain stakeholders to reduce risk and prevent reoccurrence. 

•    Review MTO/ATO demand vs MTS demand within the master production schedule to ensure a balanced achievable plan is generated. 

 

Key Shared Accountabilities 

The Supply Planner is also involved in the wider supply chain processes:

•    Supports the Planning Manager and in-region supply chain leadership to drive continuous improvement efforts to improve performance on all key metrics, including service targets, Network optimization, and inventory levels.

•    Support the wider Supply Chain team on capacity planning, future availability, and support labour planning as part of S&OP. 

•    Support Production Planning on changes to near term schedule, support on decisions around adjusting production plans around Made To Stock lines to support Made To Order customer prioritisation and adjusting Made To Stock production against near term demand fluctuations.

•    Support network management by transferring materials from one manufacturing location to another based off business needs. 

•    Support updating master data relating to finished goods in their control, including safety stocks, inventory stocking policies. Ensure that updated master data delivers desired system planning output by partnering with business and supply chain Planning Data team. 

•    Support reporting on Key Performance Indicators such as working capital (Distributor and DC Inventory DOH, inventory turns, actual vs target) and Service (OTIF, Out-Of-Stocks), complete with process improvement initiatives and prioritizes tasks and deliverables in a timeline intense environment.