Master Planner

Eli Lilly Eli Lilly · Pharma · Suzhou Manufacturing-苏州工厂, China

This role is a Master Planner responsible for creating and managing production plans, inventory, and material requirements within SAP for a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility. It involves close collaboration with regulatory, production, and quality departments to ensure compliance and optimize capacity, with a focus on meeting demand while minimizing inventory costs. The role also includes managing change control and reporting on key supply chain metrics.

What you'd actually do

  1. Propose Monthly long term and short-term production plan of all products according to demand forecast & custom (including import and export).
  2. Breakdown production plan to master production plan according to actual inventory and demand status of finished goods and materials and actual capacity.
  3. Closely work with Regulatory department, understand the impacts from regulatory change, to make the production plan to fulfill regulatory requirements accordingly.
  4. Closely work with production dept. and QA/QC and other related functions for capacity balance and optimization, coordinate well to implement the MPS with best sequence in high efficiency.
  5. Run MPS in SAP, check material availability, convert planned orders to process orders, release process orders in SAP, transfer information from SAP to REGULUS and PMX

Skills

Required

  • Production planning
  • Inventory management
  • SAP
  • Supply chain management
  • Demand forecasting
  • Regulatory compliance
  • BOM management
  • Material requirements planning (MRP)

Nice to have

  • Process improvement
  • Change control management
  • Data analysis
  • Reporting

What the JD emphasized

  • regulatory requirements
  • capacity balance and optimization
  • SAP
  • inventory control
  • GMP