Production Planning Manager

About Amor Management Consultants

Amor Management Consultants is a leadership hiring and executive search firm specialising in identifying and delivering high-calibre talent across the Automotive, Engineering and Manufacturing sectors. We partner with leading organisations to build strong leadership and functional teams across critical business functions.

About the Client

Our client is a well-established automotive components manufacturing company with a strong presence in precision manufacturing and high-volume automotive components. The organisation caters to leading customers across the automotive industry and is currently strengthening its leadership team to support business growth, operational excellence and capacity expansion.

Position: Head Production Planning & Control (PPC)

Location: Chennai

Industry: Automotive / Auto Components

Function: Production Planning & Control

Experience: 12 to 20 Years

Reporting to: Senior Management

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the overall Production Planning & Control (PPC) function across three business divisions.
• Develop and monitor monthly, weekly and daily production plans based on customer demand and business requirements.
• Drive capacity planning, material planning and production scheduling to achieve customer delivery commitments.
• Prepare and maintain a 12-month rolling production and capacity plan and identify future capacity requirements.
• Utilise TOC Flow for production planning and ensure effective implementation at the shop-floor level.
• Monitor Plan vs. Actual Production, Schedule Adherence, Throughput and Dispatch Performance and drive corrective actions.
• Identify production bottlenecks, capacity constraints and potential delivery risks in advance and implement recovery plans.
• Drive SAP MRP for raw-material planning and ensure material availability aligned with production requirements.
• Coordinate with Sales/BU, Production, Purchase, Warehouse, Dispatch, IE, Quality and Maintenance teams for seamless execution.
• Manage RM, WIP and FG inventory levels while balancing customer delivery, inventory and capacity utilisation.
• Coordinate with Purchase and suppliers on critical material shortages and supply risks.
• Work closely with the IE team on machine capacity, manpower requirements, capacity expansion and long-term planning.
• Drive daily, weekly and monthly PPC review meetings, MIS and management reporting.
• Support the S&OP process by providing demand, production, capacity, material and manpower inputs.
• Improve PPC systems and processes to reduce reactive planning and production firefighting, while improving delivery, throughput and inventory performance.

Looking for a PPC leader from the automotive/auto-component manufacturing industry with strong experience in production planning, capacity planning, SAP MRP, material planning and cross-functional coordination. Candidates who have managed planning across multiple divisions/plants with high-volume manufacturing environments would be preferred.