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This role will give you experience of working within a busy, fast-paced team that maintain and control production schedules. You will work closely with all areas of this business including production, purchasing, warehousing, and customer service. You will gain fantastic new skills and knowledge that will support your long-term career.
Purpose of the Role
To develop, maintain, and control production schedules that ensure customer demand is met while optimising manufacturing capacity, inventory levels, and material availability. The Supply Chain Planner works closely with Production, Purchasing, Warehouse, and Customer Service to ensure efficient and cost-effective operations.
You will receive full training and ongoing mentorship in your job role which will include:
- Create and maintain production schedules in SAP based on customer demand, forecasts, and available capacity.
- Monitor production orders from release through to completion.
- Ensure materials are available to support planned production.
- Review and manage MRP messages, shortages, and planning exceptions.
- Liaise with production to resolve capacity constraints and adjust schedules where necessary.
- Work closely with purchasing to ensure timely delivery of raw materials and components.
- Monitor inventory levels to maintain agreed stock targets.
- Expedite production orders where customer priorities change.
- Analyse production performance and identify opportunities to improve planning efficiency.
- Maintain accurate planning parameters and master data within SAP.
- Support new product introductions by ensuring planning data is correctly established.
- Participate in daily production meetings and communicate planning priorities.
- Produce planning reports and KPIs for management.
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Course Contents
- Comply with regulations and legislation when working. For example, drivers working hours, working time directive, and Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) guidance.
- Comply with health and safety when working.
- Follow company policy, processes, and standard operating procedures.
- Plan and prioritise daily activities for example, to customer job requirements, back loads, delivery.
- Plan multiple drop routes and jobs.
- Inputting customer jobs for collection and delivery.
- Track job progress.
- Amend or re-plan routes when delivery circumstances change, for example, changing weather conditions, road closures, and accidents, customer requirements.
- Adapt approach when supporting operation with, for example, changing weather conditions, road closures, and accidents.
- Record or enter information - paper-based or electronic. For example, job sheets, handover documents, work sheets, and checklists.
- Optimises routes, vehicle type, and loading.
- Comply with company-specific policy and procedures by using the appropriate mode of transportation for ultra-low emission zones (ULEZ) and clean air zones.
- Arrange the maintenance and inspection of the vehicle.
- Use technology, and systems. General data protection regulation (GDPR). Cyber security.
- Use the traffic management system or other relevant systems, to add, and update customer job requirements.
- Conduct a briefing or debriefing session with colleagues.
- Communicate in writing with others for example, internal and external customers, colleagues, and managers.
- Communicate with others verbally for example, internal and external customers, colleagues, and managers.
- Manage customer queries and complaints.
- Apply the company’s service standards for internal and external customer services.
- Escalate issues, for example, driver infringements and non-operational procedures.
- Apply team working and wellbeing principles.
- Apply equity, diversity, and inclusion principles in the workplace.
- Carry out and record learning and development activities.
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Essential Qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
About This Employer
Profine is the UK Subsidiary of a global provider of cutting-edge window and door systems. They supply to 87 countries around the world, have over 3,500 employees across 29 sites in 22 countries, with a turnover in excess of £612 million per year. They regularly recruit and train apprentices to be the future of their business.
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in a new tab).
Upon successful completion of this apprenticeship, there will be further progression opportunities with this employer, which may include a higher-level apprenticeship.
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