Team Member- Material Planning

Job Purpose

Review of production plan, Creation of monthly Purchase requisition of raw material and packing material for a specific cluster of units as per plan available in IBP/SAP by monitoring existing inventories, collaborating with procurement, Supply planner, Unit planner teams as per plan available in IBP/MRP as per set guidelines and ensure material availability.

Roles & Responsibilities

I. Creation of Purchase requisition for raw materials and packing materials based on production plan available as per set guidelines and ensure material availability:

1. Check material availability as per the BOM explosion.

2. Check RM, PM inventory in other units for stock transfer.

3. Release Purchase Requisition for RM, PM in SAP as per IBP / SAP MRP plan.

II. Liaise with Procurement,Plant Planners,Stores, QA and manufacturing teams on delivery of material:

1. Liaise with procurement team for the material follow-up.

2. Liaise with stores team for the delivery of material.

III. Check with Procurement and ensure material delivery to ensure material availability. Action on rejection by procurement:

1.Ensure the details on delivery of goods, rejection and delays are updated respective supply and business teams

2. Co-ordinate with procurement and QA teams on the material rejection and CAPA

3. Be a point of contact for Control Tower meetings for assigned unit.

IV. Ensure to raise Purchase requisition for RM, PM in adherence to the agreed standards of

quantities and timelines for optimum inventory levels at all units:

1. Timely creation of indents as per the BOM specifications.

2. Adherence to MRP created PRs and ensure to meet inventory target.

V. Liaise with Procurement, Stores team on the action for the non-moving inventory such salvaging, disposal, destruction to avoid CoPE reduction and ensure minimum loss on non-moving, slow moving inventory:

1. Collating data for salvaging of non-moving inventory.

2. To dispose of non-moving material with the help of procurement.

3. To intimate stores for raising disposal/ destruction authorization as per DOA

4. Action on report generated on obsolete and expiring material.

5. Sharing visibility/ data for short term and long term capacity building for warehouses.

VI. MIS & Reporting

1. Prepare regular reporting from MRP and share with all stakeholders.

2. Prepare cluster wise total material CoPE risk and report to Finance.

3. Prepare month on month inventory simulation.

4. Prepare monthly material availability ie. Full-kitting report.

5. Report Critical materials in weekly huddle meeting to de-risk production and business commitment.

Relevant experience:

• 4-6 years of supply chain and/or operations experience in Pharma industry, specifically in

manufacturing units

• Good knowledge of SAP, MRP, IBP and various SAP transaction, reports related to materials.
• Good communication skills, influencing skills, techno-commercial knowledge, MS Office skills

and SAP know-how, stakeholder management.