Univar Solutions

Supply Planner

Univar Solutions

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Dorval • 🇨🇦 Canada

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Responsible for maintaining inventories and executing the supply plan to minimize out of stocks across the supply chain network
  • Proactively utilize MRP’s and other tools to review inventory projections & supply-demand summaries to prevent potential shortages or excessive inventory and demurrage
  • Monitors inventory levels and make suggestions on inventory parameters (e.g. safety stock, forecast, etc.)
  • Ability to assess purchasing options, optimizing loads via combining various products onto a single order, pre-ordering as needed to reduce costs
  • Works with Product Marketing Management on overall supply direction
  • Review out of stock situations or shortage of supply issues and recommends mitigations
  • Utilizes exception reports to identify and correct potential out of stock issues
  • Identifies and manages potential inventory obsolescence to minimize aged inventory and eventual write-offs
  • Tracks and reconciles weekly/monthly metrics versus established targets
  • Responsible for maintaining into stock performance, if approaching out of stock situation, provides options to customer service team to remedy situation
  • Converts SAP generated purchase requisitions into purchase orders

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree preferred in Business, Supply Chain/Operations, or other related fields
  • APICS certification (CPIM) and/or SCMP preferred, not required
  • SAP experience preferred, not required
  • Must be bilingual (French and English)
Benefits
  • Total Rewards package including market aligned pay and incentives
  • Diverse benefits offering to support physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
inventory managementsupply chain managementMRPpurchasing optimizationcost reductionmetrics trackinginventory reconciliationexception reportinginventory obsolescence managementsupply-demand analysis
Soft skills
analytical skillsproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationproactive approachdecision-makingorganizational skillscustomer service orientationadaptabilitybilingual communication
Certifications
APICS CPIMSCMP