- Production planning and scheduling (Toronto)

- - Own the master production schedule and publish a weekly plan and daily run sequence.

- Sequence production to minimize changeovers.

- Maintain a rolling capacity outlook and flag constraints early enough for Operations to act.

- Define and enforce a frozen schedule window and a explicit protocol for schedule changes and expedites.

- Track schedule adherence and bring root causes to the daily production meeting.

- Build planned maintenance windows into the schedule with Maintenance.

- Own work order accuracy and timely closure in Epicor (Upcoming – Future state)

- Materials planning and inventory (Toronto)

- - Ensure material availability for every scheduled run and publish a regular shortage/at-risk report.

- Own MRP (Material Requirements Planning) parameters in Epicor and review them against actual performance.

- Set and manage inventory targets by category.

- Run a regular review of slow-moving and obsolete stock with a disposition plan.

- Coordinate inbound receiving and material staging with the warehouse.

- Keep planning assumptions (yields, scrap, run rates) aligned with actuals.

- Support inventory accuracy through the cycle count program.

- Procurement (Toronto + Markleville)

- - Develop and maintain category strategies for direct materials, including approved and alternate suppliers.

- Consolidate volume across sites to maximize leverage and standardize the supplier base.

- Manage pricing mechanisms and give Finance visibility of cost movements ahead of standard cost updates.

- Maintain PO discipline: accuracy, supplier confirmations, proactive expediting.

- Manage supplier performance with scorecards and corrective action.

- Identify supply risks (single-source, long-lead) and hold mitigation plans.

- Manage cross-border logistics, duty/tariff exposure, and trade compliance for both sites.





- Support Maintenance on MRO and critical spares within procurement controls.

- Support CAPEX projects with sourcing, vendor comparison, and delivery timing tied to the production schedule.

- Maintain a tracked cost savings pipeline validated by Finance.

- Own supplier onboarding, master data, and payment-term alignment with AP.

- Epicor ownership (Upcoming – Future State)

- - Act as functional owner for the planning and purchasing modules through implementation: process design, configuration, testing, data migration, and training.

- Govern planning and purchasing master data post go-live.

- Deliver standard reporting on planning, inventory, and supplier performance.

- Inter-site coordination - (Toronto + Markleville)

- - Manage inter-company transfers of material and finished goods between sites.

- Drive standardized specs and item codes across sites.

- Hold a regular touchpoint with Markleville on shared suppliers and constraints.

- S&OP; (Sales and Operations Planning) and demand interface - (Toronto + Markleville)

- - Own or co-own a monthly S&OP; cycle connecting Sales demand, Operations capacity, and executive decisions.

- Track forecast accuracy with Sales and translate forecast into the planning signal in Epicor.

- Provide realistic order promise dates based on actual capacity and material.

- Continuous improvement (Toronto + Markleville)

- Lead planning- and procurement-driven improvement initiatives: changeover reduction, inventory and lead-time reduction, SKU rationalization, supplier cost-outs.

- Report results with clean cost/quality/productivity attribution.

- KPIs (Toronto + Markleville)

- - Owns: schedule adherence, material-driven downtime, raw material inventory levels, obsolete inventory, supplier OTIF, purchase price variance, open PO aging, savings delivered.

- Shared: customer OTIF, changeover hours, forecast accuracy, inventory accuracy.

📌 Procurement Supervisor (Toronto)
🏢 Balcan Innovations
📍 Toronto