Material & Production Planning
Mission
Management of production plan (MPS), ensuring a balance between actual needs and future customer demand.
Main Responsibilities
Production Planning
- Planning and prioritizing operations to ensure maximum performance and minimum delay
- Determining workeforce, equipment and raw materials needed to cover production demand
- Assign workers and other staff to particular production operations
- Schedule shift according to production needs
- Development of the main production plan (MPS), also by planning family, according to the “Master Schedule”, available resources (materials, line capacity and resources) and production priorities
- Ensure a correct management of MRP and other specific system used by the plant (NICIM, etc..) in order to satisfy the customer's request and optimizing the value of the stock
- Ensure the management of daily scheduling and the monitoring of order progress
Budget
- Obtain output information (number of finished products, percentage of defectives etc.)
- Prepare and submit status and performance reports
- Monitor jobs to ensure they will finish on time and within budget