Executive - Planning Guwahati

Executive – Planning
Supply Chain DepartmentCOMMUNICATION & WORKING RELATIONSHIPS InternalExternal

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

DESCRIPTIONJob SummaryTo develop and implement effective supply chain operations, supply chain management, vendor management and ensuring quality. To strategize and plan supply chain operation looking at future volumes and ensuring implementation of the same. Drive regional S&OP process with key stakeholders, customer, forecast accuracy and inventory management. To drive excellence in all supply chain operations and to support operations.Key Job Responsibilities

Strategic Priorities & Ensure stock availability

• 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