Supply Chain Planning & Scheduling Consultant

Manufacturing Transformation | 20+ Week Consulting Engagement

Location: Midwest
Start Date: Within 2 weeks
Schedule: Onsite Monday–Friday
Duration: 20+ weeks

Implementation Engineers is seeking an experienced Supply Chain Planning & Scheduling Consultant to join our project team for a manufacturing transformation engagement at a Canadian aerospace and defense manufacturing site.

This opportunity is designed for a seasoned consulting professional who is comfortable entering a complex client environment, quickly diagnosing underlying problems, designing practical solutions and working alongside the client team through implementation.

This is not a traditional planning position or an advisory-only assignment. We need someone who can determine why the planning system is creating instability -- not simply operate the existing process.

The Engagement

The consultant will assess, redesign and help implement improvements across material planning, MRP, production planning and shop-floor scheduling.

The manufacturing environment includes:

• Multi-level BOMs

• Intermediate assemblies and multiple stocking points

• Dependent demand

• Material shortages and schedule volatility

• Production-order and material-availability challenges

• Work-center and capacity constraints

• Excessive expediting and work-in-process inventory

What You’ll Do

• Diagnose current material-planning, MRP and production-scheduling processes

• Determine whether problems originate in the system, master data, planning processes or execution

• Evaluate BOM structures, lead times, lot sizes, safety stock, order policies and planning parameters

• Analyze planned orders, production orders, shortages, exception messages and planner actions

• Improve production-order planning and release practices

• Develop practical planning horizons, time fences, frozen periods and scheduling rules

• Align material availability with production schedules

• Incorporate realistic work-center capacity and constraints

• Reduce schedule churn, expediting, shortages and excess WIP

• Design future-state planning processes, standard work, KPIs and management routines

• Work directly with planners, schedulers, supervisors, procurement and operations leadership

• Communicate findings, recommendations and implementation progress to senior client leaders

What You Bring

• Significant hands-on manufacturing planning and scheduling experience

• Deep understanding of MRP, master scheduling, multi-level BOMs, dependent demand, production orders and capacity planning

• Experience in complex discrete manufacturing, ideally aerospace, defense, industrial equipment, automotive, electronics or engineered products

• Demonstrated ability to redesign and implement planning processes -- not simply recommend improvements

• Experience working directly with manufacturing planners and shop-floor teams

• Strong analytical capabilities using ERP data, Excel, Power BI or similar tools

• Excellent facilitation, communication and executive-presentation skills

• Ability to challenge legacy practices constructively and build client ownership of the solution

ERP Experience

Oracle experience is preferred, particularly within Enterprise Planning, Order Planning, Job Shop Control, production BOMs, routings, work centers and capacity.

Candidates with deep hands-on planning experience in SAP, IFS, Epicor or another sophisticated discrete-manufacturing ERP are also encouraged to apply.

Engagement Requirements

• Ability to work onsite in Monday through Friday

• Availability beginning within the next 2 weeks

• Ability to commit to the full 20+ week engagement

• Approved travel expenses and meals are reimbursed

Interested?

If you are an experienced supply chain consultant who enjoys moving from diagnosis through implementation and leaving clients with stronger, sustainable operating systems, we would welcome the opportunity to speak with you.

Please apply with your résumé and a brief description of a manufacturing planning or scheduling transformation you personally designed and implemented.

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