Production and Materials Planner - Next Gen

at  Wonderbrands

Job Posting:
Wonderbrands is a leading North American bakery company with a specialized focus across key bakery categories, including breads & rolls; alternatives breads, and others. We are the makers of Wonder®Bread, Country Harvest®, D’Italiano®, Gadoua®, and Casa Mendosa™ tortillas. We bake our products in 13 facilities across Canada, conducting our business with integrity, contributing to our communities, and fostering a respectful culture. We are building a culture of success here, and it depends on our people striving for greatness and having the courage and commitment to getting better every day.
As we forge ahead in the transformation of our business, we are coming together as a united North American enterprise, rebuilding our asset base, adding significant new capacity, and focusing on the development of our people. These building blocks are essential to moving forward as a growth-focused, insights-driven, consumer-led company that will celebrate food and the central part that food plays in our life.

SUMMARY

The functional reporting for the Production and Materials Planner role will be to Materials Manager. The bakery crew e.g. receivers, cycle counters and line shippers who will be supporting the activities below will be providing support to this position for their portion of responsibilities laid out below.

• Schedule production at the bakery based on guideline from the central planning team
• Ensuring Cycle counts of all raw materials and packaging items minimum once a period
• Improve inventory accuracy at the bakery to 98%+ (FG,SFG,RM &PM)
• Keep a close eye on expiring materials and delisting materials and work closely with Central Planning team for the “Run Out” plan
• Responsible for addressing Finished goods discrepancies between EWM and SAP
• Escalation of Chronic issues e.g. materials discrepancies higher than the tolerance, process discrepancies within the bakery etc. to Central planning team
• Help Supply planning CI team to have visibility on PPW generated out of the bakery
• Ensuring with the bakery production team that number of mixes reported, FG production numbers (entered by line shippers only) are entered accurately and escalate to bakery manager if there is abnormal discrepancy
• Back up role for Production Planner during vacation coverage
• Other duties as assigned