Planning -SCM

Role & responsibilities

• All Departments
• Senior Management
• Business partners
• Statutory bodies

DESCRIPTIONJob Summary

• Responsible for leading demand & supply planning using statistical tools and regional sales inputs.
• Converting demand plan to supply plan and driving strategic S&OP with regional operation, marketing as key stakeholders in the process.
• Works closely with the regions/zones to understand key deviation in demand/supply planning/ forecasting process and drive interventions to improve forecast accuracy
• Work closely with manufacturing for the production scheduling and dispatch schedule adherence to ensure customer service/OTIF 99%
• Capacity planning of manufacturing units considering long range/strategic demand plan including vendors, capacities basis the short terms and long-term demand pattern
• Share long terms regional demand plan with regional team to align warehousing strategy and service setup to support current and future business needs
• Ensure adherence to inventory norms as agreed for RM/PM and FG
• Trigger salvage/liquidation or write off for slow/non moving obsolete materials/finished goods and align regional/HO team to ensure periodic clearance
• Zero stock out situations

MRP Running

• To Run SAP MRP on weekly basis and make sure that all POs/SL are made on time
• To keep maintaining hygiene of POs

Vendor performance measurement and improvement

• To coordinate with vendors and make sure that delivery compliance is >95% based on PO date Coordinate with Central Transportation team on placement of trucks and make sure delivery on time
• To keep interacting with regional QA and make sure that stocks are released on time
• To interact with vendors to ensure timely availability of necessary documents for QA release Ensure that PO is timely available for GRNs

Support to Central Planning Team

• To provide support to Central planning in terms of planning new products on time.
• To facilitate proper discontinuation of products from the system by:
• Timely sharing of system stock information with the business
• Facilitating inter-SCC movements for faster liquidation of stock
• Facilitating approval from marketing on write-off of stocks to SCCs

BASIC QUALIFICATION

• Qualification B.E. or B.Tech (Any Stream)
• Experience 1-3 years experience specialised in field of retail / services industry with exposure to supply chain operations (Preferably cold chain exposure)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATION

• Ability to analyse and solve problems for long term
• Open to challenging the status quo
• Analytical bent of mind