The role of the supply chain Planner includes making the plans to optimize the use of current resources and facilitate the delivery of goods, services, and information to the buyer. A brief description of the work done by a Supply Chain Planner is as follows:
• Prepare Forecast Reports on the need of material, interpret output, and conduct negotiations with buyers
• Maintaining a record of Inventory of distributor outlets and creating a schedule for timely delivery to those locations.
• Recommending alterations to the warehousing inventory in order to resist the fluctuations of demand.
• Making sure that the business does not have overstock or understock of the raw materials
• Creating and Interpreting reports to provide presentations to the Supply Chain Manager.
• Examining the market fluctuations in order to decide the best time for purchase of raw materials
• Reviewing data for the items like resources, labor used as input to supply and demand plans.
• Overlook the plant and warehousing capacity and plan accordingly