What are the responsibilities and job description for the Planner Scheduler position at Flex?
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Job Summary
* Leads order processing activities for major customer units.
* Advises non-exempt associates regarding day-to-day priority of customer requests.
* Serves as advanced interface with customer for escalations of order commitments, order expedites, and problem resolution.
* Monitors and proactively addresses issues that impact performance to committed ship date (CSD), lead-time, response time, and inventory goals.
* Coordinates and manages high-visibility and/or important customer programs. May include initial customer or product startup initiatives or large customer programs.
* Coordinates with Master Scheduler to manage product life cycle and related materials availability issues.
* Drives process improvements inside and outside the area of Order Management.
* Plans, schedules, coordinates and approves product release to the production planning systems based on material and capacity availability.
* Provides input to management, reschedules, and /or interfaces with customer program management, master scheduling, customers and production control to reschedule production in the event of design changes, labor and material shortages, backlogs, and other potential schedule interruptions.
* Represents Order Management on various Customer Focus Teams.
* May also support inventory control, supply chain management, material planning, and scheduling.
Job Category
Global Procurement & Supply Chain
Is Sponsorship Available?
No
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