The BPO Production Planning, BU America serves as the business owner for production planning processes across the APS and SAP S/4HANA landscape. This role bridges Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Information Technology to drive planning excellence, operational performance, and system adoption. The position is responsible for improving end-to-end planning processes, supporting APS implementation and optimization, and ensuring planning decisions deliver measurable business results in customer service, inventory, capacity utilization, productivity, and schedule reliability.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
Business Process Ownership
- Own and continuously improve end-to-end production planning processes across APS and SAP S/4HANA environments.
- Establish and maintain planning standards, governance, workflows, and business rules.
- Drive process consistency while accommodating legitimate operational requirements across manufacturing sites.
Planning Systems & Optimization
- Support deployment, stabilization, and continuous enhancement of Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) solutions.
- Partner with business and IT teams to define requirements, testing strategies, integrations, and process improvements.
- Ensure planning systems accurately reflect manufacturing constraints, capacities, resources, and business priorities.
Operational Excellence
- Analyze planning performance and identify opportunities to improve service levels, inventory performance, production schedules, and resource utilization.
- Lead root-cause analysis and implement corrective actions to address recurring planning issues.
- Reduce manual processes, improve data quality, and increase planning efficiency.
Analytics & Decision Support
- Develop and maintain planning metrics, reports, and dashboards to support operational decision-making.
- Monitor key performance indicators including schedule attainment, inventory levels, material availability, capacity utilization, lead times, and planning stability.
- Translate data insights into actionable recommendations for business leaders.
Change Management & Training
- Develop user documentation, process guides, and training materials.
- Provide training and coaching to planners, schedulers, and business users.
- Drive system adoption and continuous improvement through effective stakeholder engagement.
Project Leadership
- Lead or participate in production planning, SAP S/4HANA, APS, and operational improvement initiatives.
- Coordinate activities across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, IT, and external implementation partners.
- Manage project deliverables, risks, actions, and business readiness activities.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Business, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum 7 years of experience in production planning, supply chain management, and business process ownership within a manufacturing environment.
- Strong knowledge of production planning, MRP, capacity planning, scheduling, inventory management, and manufacturing operations.
- Experience supporting SAP S/4HANA production planning or related supply chain processes.
- Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into process improvements and system solutions.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and business intelligence/reporting tools.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience implementing or supporting Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) solutions.
- Experience integrating planning applications with SAP S/4HANA.
- Experience supporting multi-site manufacturing operations.
- Knowledge of Power BI, Power Query, or similar analytics platforms.
- Lean, Six Sigma, APICS/ASCM CPIM, CSCP, or SAP certifications.
Physical Requirements & Work Environment:
- Ability to travel as needed to support manufacturing facilities, project implementations, and operational initiatives up to 15%.
- This is a remote position that requires periodic travel to manufacturing facilities and exposure to production-area conditions.
Safety & Quality:
- Follow all Georg Fischer safety, environmental, and quality standards, policies, and procedures.
- Promote a culture of safety, continuous improvement, accountability, and operational excellence.
- Support GF's commitment to sustainability, compliance, and employee well-being.
Salary Range: $80,000 - $140,000 Per Year + Bonus
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