Perdue Foods is part of Perdue Farms, a family-owned company heading into its second century of growth and innovation. With a goal of becoming the most trusted name in premium proteins, we create products for consumers and for retail and foodservice customers around the globe, while changing the way animals are raised for food.

Summary

The Associate Supply Planner develops, with direction, and maintains the Master Production Schedule for selected plants and species.  This will be a daily plan for the next three weeks and weekly for weeks 4 – 52.  The Associate Supply Planner is responsible for achieving the maximum return on assets including inventory levels with guidance from Sr. Planner or Manager.

 

The salary range for this position is $56,000 - $83,000 per year, based on experience and qualifications with annual bonus available (variable depending on performance).  

In addition to the base salary, Perdue offers a competitive benefits package, including medical/Rx, 401(k) with employer match after 1 year, critical illness, accident insurance, dental, vison, life insurance, optional group life insurance, short-term and long-term disability protection, flexible spending accounts and paid time off.  

Principal and Essential Duties & Responsibilities Creates and maintains the optimum Master Production Schedule to obtain maximum ROA from given facilities with direction from Sr. Planner or Manager.  These plans must meet both the short and long term goals. Creates and maintains the optimum inventory profile to ensure fulfillment of customer requirements, taking into account forecast accuracy, schedule compliance and production smoothing requirements. Reviews forecast with Demand Planning to review issues such as product mix or capacity constraints.  Examples would be identification of excess product in the future or feature requirements exceeding capacity at the default plant and assignment of volume to alternate facilities.  Associate Supply Planners will assign the default plant to new customers after reviewing the full impact of the additional volume and getting agreement from Senior Planner and/or Manager. Works as part of the Sales and Operations Planning team to review the forward plan and past performance.  This will also involve a constant dialogue with respective plants, Demand Planning, Order Management and Distribution. Constantly monitors and reviews the supply models in Manugistics Supply Planning and Supply Chain Navigator, including all the automatic, overnight processes and interfaces to and from SAP.  Daily exception reports will be produced both systems exceptions where parameters are missing and process exceptions, for example where supply may not meet demand or stock is low. Monitors exceptions on a daily basis and communicate with Order Management as to the most effective solution – advises of any modifications to the supply plan and options for utilizing inventory. Education and Experience Requirements

Bachelors degree plus 0 – 3 years related work experience or in the absence of a Bachelors degree, total experience equals 10 years. Our ideal candidate will have/be:

Knowledge of production planning and optimizing within constraints. Above average numerate and analytical skills and good working knowledge of Supply Chain.  Knowledge of SAP as it relates to inventory and the master production schedule.  Sound business and industry experience essential.  Advanced working knowledge of computers, including Windows, Lotus Smartsuite and an understanding of how data is passed between systems.  Must be able to travel overnight to customer, vendor and plant locations. Environmental Factors and Physical Requirements

Position is office based

 

 

Perdue Farms, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.