Planner/Buyer

**Position Summary**The mission of a Planner/Buyer is to build and organize an efficient finite production schedule that maximizes production efficiency while minimizing raw material and work in process inventory, changeover costs and satisfies customer's required dock dates.
**Responsibilities**- Release and manage production work orders in accordance with MRP, Kanban signals, production plan goals and related planning data.
- Reviews production capacity requirements: Monitors the reports and ensures capacity is available to meet the production plan.
- Release and manage raw material orders through the MRP system as necessary to meet production schedule.
- Works with customer service personnel on maintenance of promise dates to the customer.Provide customer's service maintaining the communication thru the systems set.
- Manage, monitor and update Kanban's for assigned value streams- Work with lean team on the continuous improvement process with the goal of visua...