Plant Master Planner

East-West Seed (Nonthaburi, Thailand)

Nonthaburi, Thailand

East-West Seed breeds and produces high quality vegetable seeds for tropical conditions.East-West Seed breeds and produces high quality vegetable seeds for tropical conditions.

About this position

The Master Planner’s role is responsible for planning management of cleaning, coating, packing and packaging material for both of plant BBT & SPP with the optimum utilisations of available capacity, resources in alignment with cross functions to improve the service level to customers while maintaining the cost part/Opex.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage all aspects of planning raw materials, packaging materials and packing scheduling and delivery to achieve customer satisfaction.
• Collaborate with relevant functions both the Demand and supply side, the Plant processing and also QA to achieve smooth supplies to customers.
• Monitor batch utilization/FIFO by monitoring and recommending seed batches for seed coating and finished goods packing.
• Synchronize supply chain e.g, inventory, Sales/demand, quality, logistics, etc.
• Monitor and measure plant performance, and share the results with team for improvement.
• Identify process and resource constraints and address it properly and on time with plant manager.
• Clearly and effectively communicate about goals and objectives.
• Proactively approach team with the solution team if there is the risk.
• Support management in implementation of S&OP concept.
• Other assignments directly by the Processing Plant Manager.
• Focus on timely completion of processing to export the seeds to SISCO and coordinate with the EXIM team.

Requirements

• Bachelor or Masters in Supply Chain and Logistics or related fields from an accredited institution.
• 5 years’ experience in Manufacturing environment, Agro or FMCG preferred out of which 3 years’ experience working in a multinational company with international reporting relationships.
• Strong experience in production planning and scheduling, MRP, MPS.
• Have direct experiences in ERP system.
• Understand S&OP concept will be advantage.
• Demonstrated written and verbal fluency in English.