Job summary
The Production Planner is responsible for ensuring material availability and timely release of manufacturing orders to meet shipment schedules while minimizing inventory and aging. This role runs and analyzes MRP, executes weekly production releases, performs daily shortage analysis and follow‑up, and continuously monitors open orders to identify and close excess or aged requirements.
Key responsibilities
- Daily shortage analysis & fulfillment
- Run daily material shortage reports and identify critical shortages impacting production and shipments.
- Coordinate with procurement, suppliers, receiving, and production to expedite, re-route, or substitute materials.
- Track fulfillment actions and close shortage items in the ERP.
- MRP execution, review & analysis
- Execute/run the weekly MRP cycle in the ERP system and validate results for accuracy.
- Analyze MRP exception messages and reports to identify root causes and recommended corrective actions (demand, lead times, scrap, BOM issues).
- Document decisions and follow up on corrective actions.
- Release weekly manufacturing orders (MO)
- Create and release weekly MOs based on MRP outputs and shipment priorities.
- Ensure released MOs have correct routings, bills of material, quantities, and due dates.
- Coordinate with shop floor and production schedulers to confirm capacity and readiness.
- Shipment‑based planning
- Align MO releases and production schedules to shipment dates and customer priorities.
- Maintain shipment-driven priorities when resolving conflicts between orders.
- Open orders management, cancellation & aging control
- Review open POs and MOs weekly to identify excess, duplicate, or obsolete open orders.
- Recommend and process cancellations or closures for excess open orders and drive reduction of aged items.
- Maintain aging dashboards and escalate persistent issues.
- Past‑due orders reschedule & updates
- Identify past‑due MOs/POs, reschedule them as