Regional Planner / Capacity Planner

Hanesbrands ROH Asia Ltd. (Bangkok)

Bangkok

Bangkok, Thailand

Hanesbrands Inc. is a leading marketer of everyday apparel essentials under some of the world’s strongest apparel brands, including Hanes, Champion, Playtex, Bali, JMS/Just My Size, barely there and Wonderbra. The company sells more than 2 billion T-shirts, socks, bras, panties, underwear, hosiery, fleece, casualwear and activewear products combined each year produced in the company’s low-cost global supply chain. Hanesbrands products are sold at the largest mass-merchandise, mid-tier, department-store and club-store retailers, as well as directly to consumers via catalogs, the Internet and more than 200 company-owned U.S. retail stores. Key Facts Net Sales (2009): $3.9 billion (No. 532 on Fortune 1,000) Employees worldwide: approximately 45,000 Headquarters: Winston-Salem, N.C., U.S. Facilities and offices in more than 25 countries Spun off as an independent company in September 2006 Publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange as “HBI” Fiscal Year: Calendar (ends last Saturday in December) Chief Executive Officer: Richard A. Noll Corporate Web site: www.hanesbrands.com Growth Strategies Sell more – Build our largest, strongest brands in core categories through innovation in key items Spend less – Leverage our size, scale and global reach to reduce cost, improve flexibility and provide superior service Generate cash – Generate and invest cash to provide superior returns for equity and debt investors Commercial Markets Hanesbrands products are sold in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, India, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, and the United States. International brands include Hanes, Champion, Wonderbra, Playtex, Stedman, Rinbros, Sol y Oro, Zorba, Kendall, Tensor and Ritmo. Production Operations Hanesbrands primarily produces its own products through company-owned production facilities. The company has built a low-cost global supply chain that has fabric production and sewing operations primarily centered in three geographic clusters: Asia – China, Thailand, Vietnam Central America – Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras Caribbean Basin– Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico

About this position

This incumbent is expected to understand how the business operates and plans for future capacity requirements. Undertakes planning activities to ensure OPC are met and optimize capacity plan in vendor level by refining balancing model, discussing capacity issues with Corporate planner and key vendors. Incorporate newness, capacity constraints and demand variances to make alignment with corporate strategy. Proactively identify and resolve capacity and resource constraints.

Responsibilities

• Model vendor capacity
• Performs weekly capacity planning activities in the capacity planning system including entry and maintenance of all key capacity information and parameters for each production facility in the appropriate systems. Proactively performs data maintenance to ensure system integrity.
• Collect and maintain style allocation plans of primary vendor.
• Calculate AMD and distribute to vendors.
• Create reports of snapshot for capacity review.
• Maintain and update MOQ MCQ lead time guideline file.
• Establish useful tools and identify potential risks on service.
• Assist to compile all reporting and data downloading
• Enhance where make process to include vendor. (add to @ task calendar) Model newness profile by vendor.
• Monitor and track newness through where make calls, @ task information and email communication.
• Perform capacity planning activities in capacity planning system (CPS) to support the output of OPC and CC plan.
• Ensure that appropriate capacity plans are in place in alignment with OPC and corporate strategy.
• Anticipates capacity related issues and drives resolution in advance. Such as regularly review OPC, production capacity of each vendor, AMD changes, newness and vendor allocation, order volume, move in and move out plans.
• Proactively drive capacity discussion with all parties such as Corporate planning, Sourcing and vendors.
• Manage deviations from the plan (especially on newness) and call out for executive decision making.
• Provide capacity resolutions with scenarios and simulations for management decision making.
• Hold monthly capacity meeting with vendors and review vendor score card and capacity plans.
• Hold bi-weekly call with Corporate capacity planning manager to get new updates from corporate and maintain capacity adjustment accordingly.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, business, operations, or a related field required.
• 2-3 years of relevant experience required.
• Requires excellent Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
• MS Access, VBA Programming, Basic SQL and database knowledge is a plus