Getting to Know the Contract Packaging Scheduling Department
Morine Snodgrass, Pam Kelley, Shelley Schopp, Jenny Drew, Jon Bakener, Judy Barrett, Dave Bushman & Jeff Roop
There are eight individuals that make up the scheduling department of the contract packaging division. They are truly the aircraft controllers of the Crest Foods. Anything that comes in or goes out, other than something going to the landfill, is done so with involvement from this group. Once an extended schedule has been established, orders for customers’ finished cases are quickly broken down into orders for all the components that go into making those products from ingredients to packaging supplies. It is not unusual for over 1000 different orders to be open at any given time. The real fun part of this whole process is that our extended schedule is far from chiseled in stone, in fact it changes every day and sometimes hourly… leaving the scheduling department with the task of adjusting their incoming supplies well enough not to overfill the nearly 500,000 square feet of fully utilized storage space that is available in our warehouse. Of course, the flip side of that is they must make sure there are enough supplies here not to shut any production lines down at any time. Actual run time is supported by production related paperwork provided by the scheduling department. Once pro- duction has been completed raw materials are converted to finish product in the computer system, inventories are adjusted and customers are notified of product available to them to be shipped out to their distribution network. Upon shipment, orders are billed by the scheduling group and the process is complete.
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