Supply Planner/Sr. Supply Planner

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Georgia Pacific's Consumer Products group is looking for a Supply Planner/Senior Supply Planner to join our Retail Tissue team in Atlanta, GA.

The successful candidate will have strong communication, analytical, and entrepreneurship skills.

If you are looking for that next step in your career path apply today!

The Supply Planner develops and implements short, medium, and long-term supply chain plans that address capacity issues, production location decisions, and supply strategies to support the Retail Tissue, Towel, and Napkin business.

This person will support business planning of ongoing and new production that includes customer promotional activities, coordination for supplying key customer events, new product introductions & brand re-launches, run out plans during brand re-launches, phase-out of discontinued inventory, working through WIP material constraints, and assisting with plans to support distribution network changes.

Monitors key performance indicators, analyzes cost-to-serve performance data and coordinates cross-functional work teams to increase effectiveness of supply chain initiatives.

Works closely with brand category team, demand planners, deployment planners, mill production planners, mill manufacturing contacts, and distribution centers to ensure product availability.

This position requires independent decision-making with minimal supervision.

Location: This is a hybrid role based out of our Georgia-Pacific Headquarters in Atlanta, GA.

What You Will Do


* Responsible for developing production plans across multiple levels of aggregation and time horizons for a Retail Tissue, Towel, or Napkin product category.


* Formulate and maintain master production schedule plans for several Retail Mills and manage co-packed and outsourced products to support forecast, sales demands, and customer operations inputs.


* Work cross-functionally with other TTN Supply & Paper Planners, Brand Category Teams, Customer Planning, Warehousing, Production Facilities, and the Deployment team to develop a single point of view for the service and inventory levels necessary to support the business.


* Identify co-packed and outsourced supply and demand imbalances in the 13-week production schedule as well as future capacity outlook.


* Identify inventory and production capacity constraints, provide proactive solutions, and implement resolution action plans.


* Lead regular meetings with GP Mills, outsourced facilities, GP co-packing teams, RDC warehousing teams, and Koch Logistics, to ensure mutual understanding of current and future state of business


* Deep dive data analysis to understand the impact of known or unknown changes in the business.


* Identify and implement process improvement and best practices

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Bachelor's Degree OR additional work experience in Supply Planning or related Supply Chain field


* Excellent communication, written, and presentation sk...