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Race Winning Brands

Manufactures high-performance automotive and powersports components

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Production Planning & SchedulingUpdated on Nov 14
Full-timeLakewood, NJ, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Responsibilities

  • Run and review material requirements planning daily for assigned buyer codes and product lines, acting on action messages to release, reschedule, expedite, de-expedite, or cancel purchase orders and work orders.
  • Develop and maintain material and production plans that balance customer demand, capacity, lead times, and inventory targets such as months of supply and safety stock.
  • Use sales history, forecasts, open orders, and demand trends, including seasonality, to plan requirements and adjust plans as demand changes.
  • Establish and maintain item master planning parameters for buy, make, and supply items, including lead times, safety stock, order quantities, minimum order quantities, and order policies.
  • Create, release, and maintain work orders to coordinate production workflow, and update them as schedules change.
  • Plan and prioritize production schedules to maximize schedule attainment and minimize delays and customer disruption.
  • Determine the manpower, equipment, and raw materials needed to cover production demand; identify capacity constraints and propose solutions.
  • Perform shortage analysis, lead regular shortage and past-due reviews, and drive recovery plans with production, the warehouse, and suppliers.
  • Control inventory for assigned buyer codes to meet targets for turns, months on hand, and excess and obsolete reduction.
  • Plan and issue supplier releases and blanket order schedules based on forecasts and inventory positions.
  • Plan and process inventory transfers between company locations to support demand at other sites.
  • Coordinate the implementation of engineering change notices with the cross-functional team, including phase-in and phase-out planning and use of existing inventory.
  • Purchase packaging and maintenance, repair, and operations or indirect items, including office supplies, safety, maintenance, and repair items, in the company enterprise resource planning system to support the plan.
  • Work with accounts payable, staff, and vendors to resolve billing, invoice, and purchase order discrepancies.
  • Provide in-depth shortage, spend, inventory, and supplier performance analysis, and report planning key performance indicators to improve on-time delivery, work order and purchase order past dues, schedule attainment, and inventory control.
  • Identify, propose, and implement cost reduction and process improvement opportunities in planning.
  • Collaborate with quality control, the warehouse, production, sales, and other staff.
  • Support the company values and product opportunities.
  • Perform additional responsibilities as required.

About the Company

Race Winning Brands

Manufactures high-performance automotive and powersports components

Race Winning Brands is a manufacturer and holding company that builds high-performance engine and driveline parts for the automotive and powersports aftermarket by acquiring and integrating established brands. Its products include pistons, crankshafts, engine blocks, cylinder heads, clutches, and electronics, which are sold through a network of dealers and distributors to racing teams, engine builders, wholesale distributors, and OEMs. The company differentiates itself by combining legacy brands under one distribution and operational framework, reorganizing into five focused business units and operating under private equity ownership to enable quicker growth and specialization. Its goal is to expand through strategic acquisitions and organic growth, broaden its market reach, and increase agility by serving distinct market segments with an integrated distribution network.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Mentor, OH
Founded
1999

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