Company Overview

For more than 60 years Blum has been manufacturing superior quality hinge systems, drawer runners, and lift systems that create motion and enhance user convenience in the kitchen. With every product, we strive to develop solutions to ensure that cabinet doors and drawers open with ease, close softly and effortlessly, and make workflow and everyday kitchen use easier.  

Today, Blum has eight production plants in Austria, and manufacturing sites in Brazil, Poland and the United States. Approximately 9000 Blum employees all over the world focus on product innovation.

Benefits 

 Blum USA believes in offering their employees an excellent benefits package that includes:

• Salaried position 
• Possible bonus opportunities
• Health (Medical, dental and vision) & wellness benefit
• 401(k) with employee matching
• FSA & Dependent Care
• Three weeks’ vacation starting your second year on the job
• Paid sick leave (48 hours annually)
• Life insurance equal to annual salary at no cost to employee
• Onsite Health clinic 

The Transportation Planner will be interact & communicate with individuals responsible for material planning & demand planning, warehouse, customer service, managerial accounting and Blum customers.

Professional Background

• Manage all aspects of customer requirements regarding load planning and transportation alignment to ensure optimized capacity for customer collect shipments
• Serve on shipment execution team along with Customer Service, Materials Management, & Warehouse
• Create Outbound deliveries to begin the transportation planning process.
• Ensure product availability to optimize product flow through process
• Help Market Logistics Analyst with backorder process to maximize customer service level and freight spend. This is to include reviewing MRP parameters
• Ensure material availability to ensure Blum controlled freight capacity is optimized to drive cost savings
• Work alongside Market Logistics Analyst to manage product allocation request that can originate from Sales or Customer Service
• Make appropriate ERP system adjustments to ensure alignment to allocate product according to product and customer priorities
• Manage available inventory (lock/unlock) to ensure product availability to priority customers
• Monitor SAP reporting to make appropriate adjustments to inventory.
• Serve as backup to Logistics Analyst as needed
• Work with Market Logistics Analyst to drive improvement to all pre-paid and collect outbound shipments to meet customer requirements
• Materials flow & planning techniques.
• Inventory flow & concepts in a manufacturing environment.
• Business processes & production scheduling have on the organization.
• Working knowledge of Manufacturing Control systems, planning procedures, transportation and freight management, physical plant layout & constraints
• SAP M/M & P/P ERP modules
• SAP TM
• Self-starter, able to work independently
• Analyzing/reporting data to identify issues, trends or exceptions used to improve results.
• Managing data using appropriate analysis & validation techniques
• Ability to deal with constantly changing deadlines & project parameters in a fast-paced, continuous process manufacturing operation
• Ability to develop collaborative relationships with all levels of the organization.
• Taking a systematic approach to solving problems by analyzing all relevant facts/issues before determining the root cause
• Detail-oriented & well-organized

Requirements

• HS Diploma or GED required
• 4-year degree in a related field preferred
• Equivalent training & experience may be substituted
• 5 years of inventory planning, materials management, or transportation planning experience in a medium sized industrial manufacturing company preferred
• Hands-on ERP systems experience preferred
• Hand-on WMS LMS systems experience preferred
• Data management & analytical analysis experience a plus
• Proficient in MS office applications
• Ability to access, retrieve, & analyze data using MS Excel, Access or business objects as provided.