Supply Planning Manager

Role Purpose

• Generating required production plans in monthly/ weekly buckets with best trade offs.

• Leading the interface to manufacturing sites to resolve supply issues relating to the production planning for the product range.

• Undertaking the Manufacturing planning for India operations. These plans would be used as an input into the production, procurement and service to customer.

Key Result Areas

• Generate monthly / weekly production plans considering the demand, Norms and transition inputs(Promo/ newness/ SKU Change).

• Coordinate for product transition at plant (Promo/ newness/ SKU Change) for confirmation of production start dates.

• Getting sign off from plant heads for line loading and optimise the manpower fluctuations, addressing loading variability in manufacturing lines.

• Validate/ align plant planned maintenance with production/ factory heads. Building stocks for planned shutdowns and peak periods.

• Responsible for IBP implementation validate blue print, Prepare test scenarios and perform UATs in IM/ DRP and RCCP modules.

• Release production budget and NC files as per budgeting cycle timeline.

• Review Out of Stock situations OR shortage of supply issues in mother depots and recommend mitigating actions.

• Conduct root cause analysis for the Supply variance from the plans.

• Provide inputs for supply reviews and S&OP.

• Mis- Prepare all SCM- Supply planning reports on time.

• Export 3rd Party (Nepal):

• Validate SKU codes for PFI and communicate to sales team.

• Allocate the orders to plants through plant SC team.

• Blocking common SKUs for billing and communicate to plant SC team for Vehicle load formation.

• Ensure Pricing records are maintained by the IT team. Publish stocks and billing position to Sales team.

Education

MBA/PGDM from a premier business school.

Experience

2-4 years of experience

Minimum 2 years of experience in a similar role in FMCG

Knowledge & Competencies

• Ability to deal with Complexity and Manage ambiguity.
• Pro-active, persuasive and flexible attitude.
• Demonstrate analytical and problem solving skills.
• Drive result and Quality oriented.
• Communication Skills.
• Demonstrated ability to use ERP / IBP system within production environment.
• Understanding of End-to-End Supply Chain.