The Key Deliverables in this role:
Financial Outcomes
- Revenue Growth: Achieve annual revenue targets through effective supply planning leading to improved OTIF & fill rates. Effective stock planning for ensuring high stock availability
- Cost Reduction: Enable cost-saving measures in supply chain operations through effective inventory management & monitoring of inventory freshness & SLOB.
- Profitability Enhancement: Operate on set inventory norms and work on optimization for improved working capital performance. Reduction in expiry to improve profitability of the organization
Customer Service
- Drive customer service metrics -Improve OTIF & fill rates and review open order positions.
- Promos, NPD & transitions management: Timely delivery
- Coordinate with sales, marketing, Shopper marketing, Customer Service and distribution team to capture voice of customer
- Order Fulfillment: Ensure consistent stock availability to meet OTIF & Case Fill metrics performance
Internal Processes
- Responsible for Production Planning, Multi-modal Dispatch Planning & Material planning
- Develop factory-wise production plans & dispatch plans to meet desired stock availability levels
- Track plan achievement for factories & devise mitigation plans for short term supply issues
- Assess constraints on supply such as short-term capacity issues, packaging material and raw material & plan actions with cross function teams
- Support on strategic projects: Inventory Optimization, network study & long-term supply planning
- To look for Digitization opportunities towards continuous improvements
Innovation and Learning
- Develop supply contingency plans to meet supply/demand variabilities
- Business management & Leadership skills: Develop strong business acumen and demonstrate leadership skills
- Continuous Improvement: Encourage a culture of continuous improvement by regularly reviewing and updating ways of working, methodologies and tools, Conduct root cause analysis for deviations
The Critical success factors for the Role
- Qualification: BE / BTECH-Graduate & MBA – Operations
- Experience: 5-6 years’ experience in supply planning in FMCG
The Desirable success factors for the Role
- Knowledge of Supply chain planning process & practices
- High proficiency in data handling, MS-Excel & SAP
- Ability to work in unstructured environment and manage changes
- Prior experience of working on Planning system (like BY, O9, Kinaxis, SAP-APO) preferred
- Ability to work well in cross functional teams & effectively communicate across all levels of the organization
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and solutioning mindset.
