Supply Planner

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The Supply & Deployment Planner is responsible for responding to demand and supply changes in a timely and accurate manner. They ensure appropriate safety stock levels are maintained that ensure case fill and freshness targets are met at market and DC level. They work closely with demand planning, customer service, sales forecasting, marketing to ensure customer requirements for product are met.

They measure and monitor SC performance KPIs, minimizing destructions and close outs. The Supply Planner is responsible for managing a low/medium complexity portfolio (defined by % of gross sales and complexity of the brand) in collaboration with their Manager.

This position also has as a main objective to optimize the management of the distribution of finished goods to maximize case fill and freshness on customer orders and satisfy co-packing requirements while minimizing transportation and warehousing costs.

Operative plan:  
• Lead weekly consensus meeting  
• Provides perspective on Supply implications of the forecast changes   
• Identify critical issues that arise in the consensus meeting that are linked to the freshness and fill rate  
• Load Operative plan in APO DP
** Supply Availability:*
* • Review latest criticality report distributed to the business   
• Develop and agree on action plan of the critical issues  
• Discuss upcoming promotion and launches and transitions plans (phase in/phase out incl. disco items)  
• packaging availability /liability
** Production Plan:*
* • Review production proposal and provide feedback if the production requires adjustment ensuring that coverage (days of supply) is on target.  
• Liaise with Area operating planning in production updates and related issues  
• Generate production requests (Short term and long term) based on latest Operative plan, demand insight, ensuring target days of supply.  
• Generate and distribute weekly stock coverage/ availability reports to the different stakeholders  
• Manage frozen forecast production for promo and seasonal item that happen on time and in full  
• Work with plants and quality in order to manage frozen production.
** Re-packing sites:*
* • Work on priorities with the different repack sites  
• Manage bulk availability and coverage  
• Manage production requests   
• Definition of the production plan for the third parties copacker site
** Strategic development:*
* • Analyze past years statistical data in order to set parameters for next fiscal   
• Validate/Update Monthly Operating Targets determined by management   
• Seasonal retro planning to insure CRAD   
• Develop bulk disaggregation according the BOM to ensure business totals are correct  
• Analyze Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and report for a specific brand vs set targets, such as Case Fill Rates and Shorted Rates, Freshness, Stock Coverage, etc.
** Deployment:*
* • Execute deployment strategy from source, saturating trucks and ensuring there are not disruption in the shipment operations  
• Maximizing direct ship opportunities from manufacturing locations and co packing locations while maximizing case fill & order fill rate on customer orders.  
• Managing finished goods distribution across the network to maximize case fill & order fill rate for customer orders  
• Proactively communicates with Customer Service on inventory availability and collaborates with them so that Customer Service can manage expectations when inventory constraints arise.

• To help to improve KPI of Freshness based on correct replenishment of the network looking at sales trend and using information from Demand & Supply Planner & Sales Department.  
• Minimize product destructions and leftover in the network  
• Providing Direction to Warehouse/ Transportation where to ship product, indication on the inbound/outbound to WHS and product availability   
• Providing updates to the Supply Planning team to support communications to Sales and Marketing on execution against strategic customer programs.  
• Analyzing data in problem resolution and trend identification  
• Adjust reason codes for cuts within the system
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Industrial…