Senior Analyst - Supply Chain Planner

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

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We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success.

Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

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The Supply Chain Planner will be responsible for providing strategic and tactical Supply Chain Demand Planning support for Elanco External Manufacturing.

The role is responsible for creating/maintaining production plans with CMs (Contract Manufacturers), representing EEM in internal and external forums.

This role also serves as supply chain business owner for Supply Chain standard processes, and has the responsibility of ensuring production schedule is aligned with commercial needs.

This role needs to ensure accurate master data setup is correct in SAP, track and manage KPIs, manage inventory of materials and products, provide timely communication on supply status and ensure products are appropriately shipped to customers on time and in full to support sales demands.

Key Responsibilities:

Production Demand Planning:


* Run Production Demand Planning transactions in in SAP


* Review product demand with commercial teams on a monthly basis.


* Generate rolling production demand following the monthly planning calendar  


* Maintain schedule and support capacity planning with external manufacturers.

Order Management:


* Generate Purchase Orders and maintain PO delivery dates updated in in SAP and Ariba system.


* Track open POS with Contract Manufacturers for updated delivery dates


* Ensure timely communication with commercial and internal teams on delivery dates


* Process orders in SAP to ensure that supply is on time and in full.


* Support invoice approvals/rejects and handle exceptions


* Troubleshoot SAP supply chain issues (POs, invoicing, payments, master data request) and work with team members to resolve


* Support communication with internal groups, such as Intercompany Services (ICOS) to align on product deliveries and product logistics.

Inventory Management:


* Monitor materials and finished product inventory levels and ensure Days of Stock KPI is maintained within targets


* Monitor losses and ensure actions are in place to mitigate materials and finished products write offs


* Suppor...