Finished Good Scheduler

As the Finished Goods Scheduler, you will work with Planning, Operations, and Customer Service to develop a production schedule while accounting for customer needs, operational constraints, and inventory positions. You will focus on the order timing and customer needs to maintain high delivery performance for our customers. You will be the primary point of communication with Customer Service on providing updates on orders in process and expedites/priorities.

PPG offers excellent Medical, Dental, & Vision Benefits; matching 401k + retirement savings; and Paid Vacation, Holiday pay. You will report to the Supply Chain Manager and work onsite in Oak Creek Wisconsin.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain rolling frozen production schedule for cost centers under your responsibility
• Evaluate equipment and personnel constraints with operations during frozen schedule review
• Coordinate with Finished Good Planning on order timing and maintaining safety stock inventories
• Communicate with Customer Service on batch completion timing
• Evaluate insert requests and provide feedback to Customer Service
• Maintain batch start and completion dates and comments in Oracle
• Provide daily updates on priorities in process to Operations and support completion of the priority report
• Review and update fill list for filling priorities
• Lead weekly frozen schedule review with Operations and Planning
• Respond to all Customer Service requests involving in process or released batches
• Provide and populate root Cause and late order reasons for any late orders that started
• Maintain Tank Wagon pickup schedule based on batch completion dates for tank wagon orders

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in operations, supply chain, logistics, engineering, or related field with 3 to 7 years of professional experience as a planner/buy with planning either raw materials or finished goods OR 8+ years of supply chain experience in a manufacturing facility
• First-hand experience and solid understanding of MRP or DDMRP systems and processes
• APICS or ASCM certification (CSCP, CPIM) preferred
• Oracle, SAP, or other ERP system experience preferred
• Advanced Excel Skills (Pivot tables, Vlookups) is highly recommended
• Experience with Business Intelligence Tools (MS Power BI) or SQL applications is a plus
• Strong data analysis skills

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