Manager - Supply Chain (PPIC)

This position is based at our Sun Pharma, Baska plant. We are looking for dynamic professionals from Pharmaceutical background, having 10+ years of experience in end-to-end supply chain planning activities.

• Position: Manager Supply Chain (PPIC)
• Department: Supply Chain
• Location: SPML Baska, Vadodara Sun Pharma
• Experience: 10-15 Years of Total Work Experience
• Preferable Skills: Good knowledge of SAP, APO, XLS, and good communication and presentation skill
• Education: B. Pharm/M. Pharma, BE/ME, Masters (MBA, MS) or equivalent degree in Supply Chain
• No. of Vacancies: 1
• Job Role: The role will be responsible for end-to-end Supply planning activities at formulation plant

Key Responsibilities:

1. Ensure continuous improvement in key Metrics like DvsC and CvsS, Sufficiency, Back orders, Inventory optimization, Capacity utilization etc.
2. Own monthly planning cycle. Take end-to-end responsibility of plant Supply planning including Production Planning, Commits, Improve DCS, run MRP, RM/PM availability and Inventory Control for sterile operations Baska formulation plant.
3. Evaluate RFC (Rolling Forecast) every month with current and forward looking (along with new product launching across all market) in terms of value, volume, capacity & material availability etc. Based on which participate in production planning along with respective stake holders and confirming commitment against market demand to various businesses.
4. Based on market priority, manufacturing and execution plan, pre-commits (M1 to M3 month) to be prepared and share with market. Post commit release ensure S&OPs / commit alignment calls with each market demand planning team & capture the suggested changes in final commit release
5. MRP run and PR validation post MRP and transfer PR from APO to SAP.
6. Master data management. Pre-MRP APO hygiene including recipe and missing master data update.
7. Co-ordination with respective stake holders (Stores, QC, QA, Microbiology etc.) at plant for timely release of RM/ PM and FG and ensure maximum utilization of resources. Daily performance dialogue with respective stake holders for avoid delay / issue resolutions
8. Co-ordination with procurement team for availability of optimum RM/ PM in time
9. Inventory control for excess, non-moving & expired inventory. Ensure optimization of an inventory with NIL shortages against production plan and appropriate implementation of buffer norms. Proactive procurement initiation at time of need based on risk assessment. Review and timely cleaning of Non-Moving and expired inventory thru destruction, plant to plant transfer, Code to Code transfer or sale off with coordination with SLOB team /commercial team / ware house.
10. Regular review, validate & updating of safety stock norms, MOQ, Lead time, GR time etc. for effective material planning & Inventory management.
11. Coordinating for plant functional activities in plant and outside plant including commercial, Central Supply Chain, Demand Planning, Marketing, Regulatory, PDD, MSTG, R&D and ADD take place in coordinated and productive manner for achieving desired outcome.
12. Preparation of DCS, S&OP, executive S&OP, Sufficiency review, monthly/ quarterly review data with right reasoning as per management requirement. Interface with different functions at various level of detail, with the ability to Draft presentations, summarize and highlight issues to Executive Level management
13. Ensuring continual improvement, training, following cGMP as per various regulatory and patient safety requirement. Ensuring team development and attrition control. Apart from this any other tasks/responsibilities provided by management and/or reporting managers.
14. Effective management of Change notification in RM / PM, Artwork changes with close co-ordination between corresponding stakeholders.