Assistant Manager Production Planning and Logistics

• Responsible for planning, scheduling, and monitoring the production plan to ensure timely production improve factory utilization using ERP ( Microsoft Dynamics AX or SAP )

• Responsible for creating a strategic forecast of product requirements at product category levels (including new products).

• Design a material requirement plan at an operational and strategic level, to drive efficient inventory management.

• Create material inventory/purchasing plans, capacity plans, and shop-loading parameters based on customer forecasts, current sales, seasonal trends and information received from Customers in order to reduce response time to Customer demands

• To execute production planning activities as per SOP

• Monitoring and recording daily production. Monthly consumption of RM, PM and efficient use of plant capacity and man power.

• Compilation / updating of daily production report, Manpower report, Stock report, down time analysis report, productivity and yield report.

• Coordinate with Purchase department and follow up for material availability to support uninterrupted production activities.

• New material creation, BOM creation/change, routine creation/change etc.

• Fine-tune resource requirements materials, headcount, shifts, etc. to match expected demand, or to compensate for any known resource shortages

• Identify changes in capacity or material availability and elevates issues to management which negatively impacts the MPS, and hence availability to customer

• Release works orders from Master Production Schedule to production to ensure product availability in line with customer orders.

• Provide management with KPM (key performance metrics) on Delivery Performance, Premium Freights. Inventory holding (active and slow-moving), and capacity utilization, with recommendations to optimize same.

• Interface between customer s representative and plant manufacturing team.

• Delivery performance from customers to meet the customer schedule 100% on time

• Responsible for Packaging development and consolidation of existing packaging items including returnable packaging

• Management of Finished Goods warehouse and outbound Logistics

• Ability to understand customer releases through WEB EDI s (for e.g. Supply On), ASN creation etc.

• Awareness on Quality Systems such as IATF 16949 , ISO 14001

Educational Qualification:

B.E Mechanical / Production /Electrical with 4 to 5 years Or Diploma Production /Electrical with 8 to 9 Years. PG /PGD in SCM or Materials Management is desirable

Experience:

Experience preferably from Plastic Injection Moulding business.

SKILLS REQUIRED

• Demonstrable knowledge of a modern ERP system ideally Microsoft Dynamics / SAP including an excellent appreciation of MPS/MRP etc.

• Good communication and analytical skills

• Knowledge of Inventory management tools (EOQ, MOQ, Safety Stock, ABC analysis, Transit Lead time/ Supplier LT , Vendor Reconciliation, , JIT, FIFO,Kanban , etc.)

• Documentation Statutory Commercials