Senior material planner vs production planner

Differences between senior material planner and production planner duties and responsibilities

Senior material planner example responsibilities.

• Lead and support the training and maintenance of ERP and planning skills within the organization.
• Manage OEM inventory to meet warranty and customer requirements.
• Analyze BOM, run rates, and safety stock level to eliminate stock-out and ensuring appropriate material flow.
• Re-Design the layout of WIP so all parts have an identify location.
• Ensure master data accuracy within the ERP system and develop scorecard to track progress.
• Collaborate with engineering, planning, scheduling and material control in coordinating material logistics for schedule maintenance projects.
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Production planner example responsibilities.

• Manage large supply base consolidations for both production parts and MRO items.
• Manage customer accounts from small first time customers to large OEM's.
• Manage and update inventory plan base on ABC and MTO statistic data.
• Provide leadership and manage production JCL analyst team supporting and recovering of production job streams.
• Track managed backlog dollars, OEM, finish product, and make to order specialty products.
• Supervise NPI chip fulfillment process - manage wafer starts to meet internal qualification and board level build plan.
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