About Veseris
Veseris is a leading distributor of pest management products, services, and solutions, serving professionals across the United States. We partner closely with our customers and suppliers to deliver value-driven solutions that help businesses operate more effectively and sustainably.
Job Summary
The Planning Supervisor is responsible for overseeing daily inventory planning and replenishment activities across multiple Veseris branches while providing leadership and support to the Planning team. This role ensures inventory availability, purchasing efficiency, and working capital objectives are met through effective planning, team development, and cross-functional collaboration.
The Planner Supervisor serves as a key resource for resolving complex inventory and purchasing challenges, monitoring team performance, and identifying opportunities to improve planning processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Supervise daily planning and replenishment activities to ensure inventory availability and operational efficiency across assigned branches.
- Provide coaching, training, and ongoing support to Planners while monitoring workloads, priorities, service execution, and adherence to established inventory planning processes.
- Oversee replenishment strategies that balance customer service needs, inventory availability, and working capital objectives.
- Monitor inventory levels, purchasing activity, and internal transfers to identify and address potential supply issues.
- Provide guidance on vendor ordering requirements, including minimum order quantities, freight considerations, lead times, and purchasing terms.
- Support seasonal demand planning and inventory strategies to minimize stockouts and excess inventory.
- Serve as an escalation point for complex purchasing issues, inventory discrepancies, and vendor-related challenges.
- Monitor key inventory performance metrics and identify opportunities to improve replenishment efficiency, inventory management, backorder management, and transparency, as well as discrepancy management.
- Partner with Operations, Sales, vendors, and other departments to resolve inventory and supply chain challenges.
- Ensure planners consistently follow established inventory planning, purchasing, and transfer processes while identifying opportunities to improve execution and standardization.
- Ensure consistent use of Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365) and adherence to established planning and purchasing processes.
- Identify and implement process improvements to strengthen planning accuracy, efficiency, and team performance.
- Coordinate planning assignments, workload balancing, and branch coverage to ensure consistent support across all assigned locations.
- Provide hands-on planning support and branch coverage as needed.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
