SUPPLY PLANNING ANALYST

Location

Evansville, IN | United States

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About Berry

At Berry Global Group, Inc. (NYSE: BERY), we create innovative packaging and engineered products that we believe make life better for people and the planet. We do this every day by leveraging our unmatched global capabilities, sustainability leadership, and deep innovation expertise to serve customers of all sizes around the world. Harnessing the strength in our diversity and industry-leading talent of over 40,000 global employees across more than 250 locations, we partner with customers to develop, design, and manufacture innovative products with an eye toward the circular economy. The challenges we solve and the innovations we pioneer benefit our customers at every stage of their journey. For more information, visit our  website , or connect with us on  LinkedIn or  Twitter.

As a member of our Supply Chain group, the Supply Planning Analyst is responsible for balancing near term demand with an optimal short-range supply plan across a network of like facilities. The role focuses on schedule integrity, reducing freight spend and maximizing service, including entering and optimizing intercompany orders across specific product lines and plants. The analyst role will also facilitate that items are cross-qualified and setup within the manufacturing network to ensure we are able to move products and/or customers site to site. The Supply Planning Analyst will also provide analytical support to ensure the business needs are met. This position serves as the backup scheduler for specific facilities as needed as well as tactically managing any expedited orders that are escalated.

The Supply Planning Analyst will be directly involved in the deployment of Berry’s Finite Scheduling platform, Preactor, as well as the company’s Advance Supply Chain Planning system, Logility, to all sites not currently utilizing those systems. The role also requires expertise and experience in Supply Chain planning and scheduling tools as well as the ability to foster improvements and adoption of the tools.

• Drive and monitor proper date management, schedule adherence, and ensure scheduling absolutes are followed
• Lead order expedite (K2) process from the Supply side
• Lead Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) meetings with Plants
• Ownership of the near-term planning horizon (0-4 weeks), linking execution to longer planning horizons
• Ensure items are setup across the product line network and coordinate activities to cross qualify items within additional sites
• Manage inventory parameters and pre-build settings in our advanced planning system to drive optimal working capital and service levels
• Lead Preactor enhancements and training to optimize scheduling excellence. Lead Preactor training initiatives.
• Provide foundational data for Supply Planning Manager & Supply Chain Directors from Cognos, Tableau and Logility. 
• Lead continuous improvement and cost savings initiatives
• Other tasks as assigned

• 2+ years’ experience in Supply Chain, purchasing and/or customer service - preferred
• 3+ years production scheduling experience - required
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and related Office applications
• Effectively communicate with customers, both external and internal
• JDE experience – required, Logility and Preactor - preferred
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Organized, detailed and strong multi-tasking skills.
• Green Belt Certification - preferred

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