The Coca-Cola Company Hiring for Supply Planner II at Atlanta, GA Full Time

The Supply Planner II will create, review and monitor purchase orders/stock transfer order (STO’s) for finished goods. Resolve errors on purchase orders/ stock transfer order (STO’s) for finished goods as needed. Ensure that finished goods coming in are in compliance with Coca-Cola standards. Review open orders, in transit, past due, dock capacity, and “to old to ship” (TOTS) finished goods. Review reports for stock outs and expedite open orders to full fill inventory levels. Check and report out pre-cuts. Maintain material availability using SAP P08 (or legacy system) in order to support the operational plans and customer demand, by reviewing order points for restock levels.

What You’ll Do for Us

• Master Data: maintain, monitor (MRP in P08) and revise essential system planning data to ensure SAP system effectively planning future material requirements.

• Inventory Management: maintain material and/or finished inventory levels within the parameter set by inventory policy, monitoring levels continuously making adjustments to future purchases as necessary. Monitor “age of stock” reports to avoid risk of slow moving and obsolete material.

• Data Integrity: Synthesize data and identify problems through operational and financial analysis in order to improve operational and financial performance.

Qualifications & Requirements Education:

Bachelor’s degree is preferred in supply management, logistics, industrial engineering or related field experience

Work Experience:

At least 3 years in purchasing or supply planning working for a large organization or diverse portfolio of products.

Core Competencies:

a) Drives Innovative Business: Develops new insights into solutions that result in organizational improvement; promotes a work environment that fosters creative thinking, innovation and rational risk-taking.

b) Balances Immediate and Long-Term Priorities: Seek to meet critical objectives while considering the impact of those decisions and activities on the ability to achieve long-term goals.

c) Delivers Results: Focuses on the critical few objectives that add the most value and channels own and others’ energy to consistently deliver results that meet or exceed expectations.

d) Imports & Exports Good Ideas: Relentlessly seeks, shares, and adopts ideas and best practices in and outside of the Company and embraces change introduced by others.

e) Develops and Inspires Others: Builds and maintains relationships that motivate, guide, and/or reinforce the performance of others toward goal accomplishments.

f) Develops self and others to improve performance in current role and to prepare for future roles: seeks and provide feedback and coaching to enhance performance.

Technical Skills:

• Requirements Planning – ability to plan materials and service requirements in order to support ongoing business.

• Forecasting – Demand – knowledge of demand forecasting techniques and inputs (e.g. business trends, seasonality, consumption patterns).

• Master Data – Appreciation for the importance that master data plays in driving the MRP/DRP process. Must have ability to identify gaps in master data that are driving sub-optimal MRP results.

• Information Systems – Knowledge and use of SAP and IT applications including but not limited to Outlook, Word, Excel, and Power BI to generate data, reports, and information analysis

• Ability to access, analyze and utilize information in a manner to identify value added opportunities, drive process improvement and outline action plans.

• Ability to propose change and system enhancements based on business needs, including process automation when possible

Our Purpose and Growth Culture:
We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.

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