Assistant Supply Planning Manager
About this position
Responsibilities
• Review and analyze data to prepare forecast analytics and evaluate forecast results and develop methods to assure efficient and effective supply planning processes and tools.
• Collaborate with other functional areas in the development of performance goals and long-term operation plans.
• Create and execute an operational monthly rolling demand plan as well as a long-term forecast by collecting and preparing historic sales as a basis, applying statistics, and incorporating stakeholder inputs to the statistical forecast.
• Coordinate with Production team on weekly / monthly production review in order to ensure that production planning will be serve for customer demand for both domestic and export.
• Propose and implement solutions to improve demand forecast accuracy.
• Maintain, revise and ensure the quality of the supply variants (stock cover days, safety stock, lead-time)
• Lead monthly demand planning meetings with demand forecast with sales and customer marketing teams.
• Conduct the Forecast Review Meetings with sales and marketing to derive agreed company demand forecast, the Demand Validating meetings with Sales to review actual demands and current forecasts, reacting on variances.
• Monitor production issues such as capacity, minimum order quantities (MOQs) or lead times that conflict with plans and communicate to marketing and sale.
• Regularly monitor the documentation and standard operating procedures and system of supply planning to ensure that consistent, efficient workflows are in place.
• Maintain the demand & supply plan for respective businesses and ensure timely updates for meeting.
• Working together with Sales on improving the accuracy of the forecasting and analyses the root causes of forecast bias/accuracy in order to prevent the same mistakes.
• Responsible for regularly/monthly tracking and analyzing of the achieve forecasting performance. Recommend adjustment to forecast.
• Identify and resolve supply exceptions by expediting purchase order, re-allocating existing inventory and establishing safety stock parameters.
• Ensure that optimum inventory level of FG in each plant are maintained to meet or exceed customer order fill rates.
• Utilize a collaborative and consensus approach by working with Sales, Marketing, customers, Export and Logistic and Accounting to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information is used for demand forecasts.
Requirements
• Bachelor’s Degree in business administration, Economics, Statistic, Supply Chain and Logistic Management or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of demand and supply planning experience, Supply Chain or similar roles in a consumer goods industry.
• Knowledge in SAP planning tools is preferred.
• Strong analytical skills, statistic proficiency and be able to analyze complex data set and derive actionable conclusions to inform forecast and attention to details.
• Good knowledge and understanding of demand generation strategies.
• Previous experience with supply chain processes strongly preferred.
• Experience working in and maintaining databases using Microsoft Excel and others relevant to company process.