Production Planner

The overall responsibility of this position is to coordinate all aspects of Malaysia coaters planning, delivery, inventory control and planning process improvement. Responsible for production scheduling and coordinating manufacturing activities to meet the requirements of both of the external and internal customers. Manage and control work in process, finished product and slow moving inventory for achieving KPIs. Resolves day to day issues with cross functional teams concerning scheduling and delivery problems. Align and manage with the operation team on the production and delivery constraints as well as flexibility for demand changes. Work with oversea DC planners and local customer service teams to gather the orders and ensure delivery on time and achieve service level targets. Review and confirm delivery date to Non Asean countries including the drop shipments orders. Manage demand and supply based on the S & OP capacity plan of all machines including limit raw material sometimes. Maintain the campaign schedule model and product family to optimize the change over, inventory and delivery due date. Support new development project, trial schedule, negotiating on constraints and ensure smooth transition to new items without old inventory left. Analyze data and make decisions on unforeseen issues as well as work with the team and the back up or contingency plan. Raise the difficulty and propose solutions to the supervisor, brainstorm and discuss the proposed solution. Maintain item data , appropriate records and prepare reports.