Lean Manufacturing Implementation: Solutia Announces Nylon Industrial Fiber Price Increases
From PR Newswire (press release) ... Aggressive cost reduction efforts over the past 18 months, the implementation of
Lean Manufacturing principles, and stringent use of asset effectiveness ...
Sample Solutia Job Posting includes Lean Manufacturing techniques...
Plastic Products, North American Supply Manager, St. Louis, MO
Major Responsibilities: The Supply Manager is responsible for the Sales and Operations Planning Process for Plastic Products North America; scheduling the Westport facility; and developing/implementing integrated scheduling, material flow, and warehousing strategies.
S&OP
- Coordinate the Sales and Operations Planning process (S&OP) and actively participate by managing S&OP reports and running monthly S&OP meeting.
- Develop finished good inventory plans consistent with corporate inventory targets.
- Translate demand forecast and inventory plans into the Production Plan.
- Review demand, material availability, and capacity to achieve desired service levels.
- Act as consolidator of WW Supply plan in support of the Executive S&OP
Master Scheduling
- Develop processes and strategies that successfully disaggregate the production plan into an executable master production schedule.
- Simplify the Master Scheduling process to meet both front-end (Sales) and back-end (Operations) functional requirements without jeopardizing customer service/satisfaction.
- Act as liaison between production, product development, and purchasing to ensure that materials and labor are available to support revenue & inventory plan for new and existing products.
- Maintain working knowledge of latest developments in master scheduling techniques and continually evaluate and change current processes to improve schedule performance.
- Manage the master schedule, production plan, and SAP to effectively and efficiently introduce new products into production and into the supply chain.
- Maintain appropriate master data setting and creation . Includes Material master and Recipes.
Material Flow
- Develop and document lot sizing, inventory management, and warehouse stocking strategies.
- Implement best practices in material flow to better manage the movement of product through the factory.
- Perform work flow analysis and layout optimization to reduce manufacturing and order fulfillment cycle time.
- Utilize process improvement techniques such as lean manufacturing, pull systems, kanban, 5S, process mapping, value stream analysis, and setup reduction.
Qualifications/Competencies: - Bachelors degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering or other Engineering
- 2+ years experience in production environment.
- Fluent in Microsoft Access and Excel. Strong SAP skills a plus.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills with a solid commitment to continuous improvement and the ability to produce positive results.
- Extremely organized, detail oriented and accurate with the ability to multi-task and prioritize.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Must be an independent and creative thinker.
- APICS Certification Preferred
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