Deputy Manager - Demand and Supply Planning

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Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)  Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

Position Summary:

The role is to drive central demand and supply planning process for Consumables who will be responsible for E2E cycle of Demand and Supply Planning of Consumables, including E & O, Inventory, DOS, and SIOP which will ultimately bring excellent customer allegiance.

Essential Job Functions and Accountabilities:
Demand Planning:
MTO - MTS Determination
Monthly and quarterly rolling forecast
Define ROP levels to ensure proper balance between demand and supply
Arrange consensus with commercial teams
Measure and report forecast accuracy, propose, and implement solutions to improve forecast accuracy.
Successfully communicate final forecast and inventory estimations to other stakeholders.
Leading execution calls for consumables.

Drive SIOP
Generate data for SIOP
Consolidate the data and deep analysis to prepare the final data
Responsible for monthly revenue blocker updation to support the revenue numbers
Analysis on Key gaps in revenue at category and SKU level mitigation plan
Co-ordinate with stakeholders like commercial, finance, product management, warehouse, etc.
Conduct full blown SIOP including - NPI (Phase-in / phase-out), Demand review, supply review, operations review, finance review and executive review.
Present final SIOP deck to management for critical decisions
Direct the action item of SIOP meeting with respective key member and take the follow ups as per the timeline
Follow up Closure of Action item from respective key member
To have a close review of forecast to control on generation of new E&O

Supply Planning:
Define ROP levels across network and monitor them per stocking norms.
Generation of daily MRP through SAP considering forecast for the month or review ROP levels.
Placement of orders, follow-up for materials, track delivery.
Ensure there are no controllable stock out of materials.
Inventory investment / planning MTO inventory through decision paper only
Prepare and present shippable backlog on quarterly basis
Review the entire network inventory from demand and supply hygiene point of view drive the route cause analysis and subsequent corrective action
Share the visibility to customer service team on weekly basis
Engage with cross functional teams like Exim, Warehouse, transportation etc to ensure ATP

Data Analytics and Process Improvements

Bring Data science experience to analyze various datasets and to come up with the observations
Responsible to support line manager for business analytics from demand and supply point of view
Use various techniques to automate the reports and analysis
Responsible to support line manager for business analytics for ongoing projects directly related to planning and procurement function
Responsible to support line manager for preparing presentation as per the business requirement
Identify the process improvement scope in every aspect of business to bring efficiency within the system

Inventory Management

Drive the Inventory Planning as per the AOP
Continue to Monitor the SKU/Location level DOS performance
Engage with commercial for Slow Moving and Non-Moving stock
Excess inventory re-shuffling within existing network.
Inventory, DOS and E&O to remain on plan

Key KPI
LIFR (Fill Rate)
Forecast Accuracy
LOTC (Suppler Fill Rate)
DOS (Days of stock)
D&E
Visibility Accuracy
Factory performance
PPI
Note :
Tracking bowler for all KRA’s on monthly basis

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