Production Planner, Ardagh Group

My name is Toby Baker. I am a production planner for a glass manufacturing company. I schedule a plant in New Jersey. Yeah, so we do lots of food, wine, beer and liquor, all glass bottles, glass jars, mason jars, baby food jars, anything, any glass product a lot of organic foods we do a lot of as well. So a customer will come to us and say, "Hey, we want to make this bottle." And they're usually taking with our sales group. And then our sales group will put that into our system. That system talks with our scheduling program. So I'll get on in the morning and I can run a report or look at the tool and will say, "We need this many bottles by this date" So then I look at what we can do and I try to schedule a bottle in there. And then at that point once I schedule it, the plant sees that and then they'll make it and then it will ship from the plant to the customer. Usually we try to work about two months ahead of time. So ideally I'm working 60 days in advance. I'm scheduling that area. So I'd be looking at reports, trying to figure out what I'm going to be scheduling there. And along with that I'm in constant communication, there's also a plant scheduler that I'm in communication with. He knows that plant side better so the manufacturing needs and what the plant can do. I'm on the phone with him everyday. And we work on short term issues at well. There's some bottles that are harder to run for them than others, so they like to run certain bottle in sequence. So you're taking all that into account as well and then sales of course that's numbers aren't static. Those are changing all the time. So there could be a day where I get an email from a sales person and they're, "Hey, we increased the demand, "can we move this up." And when you move something up you have to work from there on to the rest of the schedule moves everything a little bit.