Senior Master Scheduler

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Title: Senior Master Scheduler
Location: IL-Chicago
The Wrigley Company is a recognized leader in confections with a wide range of product offerings including gum, mints, hard and chewy candies, lollipops and chocolate.The company has operations in more than 40 countries and distributes its world-famous brands in more than 180 countries. Three of these brands - Juicy Fruit®, Wrigley's Spearmint®, and Altoids® - have heritages stretching back more than a century. Other well-loved brands include Orbit®, Extra®, Starburst®, Doublemint®, Skittles®, Freedent®, Airwaves®, Life Savers®, Eclipse®, and Winterfresh®. Wrigley is headquartered in Chicago, Ill., and operates as a subsidiary of Mars, Incorporated, a private, family-owned company founded in 1911. Mars, Incorporated is one of the world's largest food companies, generating global revenues of 30 billion dollars annually and producing some of the world's leading brands in six segments that include Chocolate, Drinks, Food, Petcare, Symbioscience and Wrigley.

Position Summary

The master scheduling process is designed to insure that adequate resources are available or planned for prior to exploring the gross requirements through MRP to create the Material Plan and Detailed Capacity Plan in order to comply with required Service Levels. The Master Scheduler (MPS) controls the anticipated build schedule using the tools of Rough Cut Capacity Planning, Planning Bills of Material and Firm Planned Orders to validate plans and communicate the master schedule. The MPS must possess detailed knowledge of all of the materials and processes that contribute to the marketing, design, sales, manufacture and distribution of the products that they will be scheduling. The MPS must also be capable of developing a working line of communication with people from all areas and all levels of the organization that have an effect on or are affected by the master schedule.

Major Responsibilities

Develops a working knowledge of the company's products and process to insure optimal master schedule stability and load leveling.

Creates a master schedule that satisfies customer demand with optimum inventory levels and resource utilization. Insures that the master schedule can be used for detailed material and capacity planning as well as financial planning.

Responsible to hand over a feasible master schedule plan to the local factory planner for execution.

Analyzes the demand and supply balance at the product family and master schedule levels, determining out- of- balance conditions, identifying alternatives and recommending corrective action.

Anticipate supply problems and implement resolution working jointly with the plants and the demand control teams.

Provide alternatives and costs to any change within the time fence to production schedules based on change in demand as well as seek approvals. Manage costs in autonomy within the agreed budget.

Chairs the weekly master scheduling meeting for the purpose of identifying, negotiating and resolving conflicts with respect to material and capacity availability and order promising.

Provide alternatives and scenarios with clear assumptions and costs in case demand is higher than supply and prioritize production in line with the sales/customer priorities agreed with the demand control team.

Seeks ways to reduce internal lead times as well as lead times to customers through performance improvement projects working directly with the plant and with the sales teams.

Works with planning team leader (s) and product team leader(s) to identify critical Bottleneck” operations or resources and determine the capacities for each resource.

Acts as single point of contact with the demand control team to determine future work plan based upon demand forecast, order trends and abnormal demands.

Develops and maintains the rules of engagement for demand control, including master scheduling policy. Assists in developing and implementing improvements to production scheduling functions.

Assess risks and gaps within the schedule and communicate appropriately the risks within the organization.

Co-ordinate the aggregation of planned production via planning bills and link it to the overall supply plan and IBP process, highlighting differences in volume and costs versus the agreed IBP plans.

Creates and maintains the critical resource file and load profiles for each resource in the rough-cut capacity planning system of ERP.

Summarizes daily and weekly master schedules for released and firm planned orders and compares these to the production plan to insure consistency.

Respond in a timely manner to action messages generated by the master scheduling software.

Assuring that no master scheduled item will have a released or firm planned order date less than the current date.

With direction from finance is responsible for the inventory levels for each product line under their control.

Creation of a financial summary of over planned and or safety sock inventories to ensure that they are within budget.

Authorizes all safety stocks and option over planned items and determines the quantity for each.

Maintains scheduling parameters such as, manufacturing calendar, lot sizes, safety stocks, delivery times, and order file data for all master scheduled items.

Requires up to 20% travel.

Minimum

Requires an Associate degree in Business, Statistical Analysis, Engineering or other related field.

Preferred

Certification in Production and Inventory Management through the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) preferred.

Training classes to include Master Scheduling, Just-in-Time, Sales and Operations Planning, Demand Management and Forecasting, Demand Flow Techniques, Lean Manufacturing, etc.

Relative

Five years of experience with products and processes that will be scheduled. Detailed knowledge of products.

Proficient in planning tools and systems.

Prior planning experience in a manufacturing environment.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Proficient in Excel and detail oriented.

Ability to understand facilities, production lines and flow of materials and communicate to the organization bottlenecks and options to increase output and customer satisfaction.

The Wrigley Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.