Assistant Manager - Planning

Role & responsibilities

• Responsible for leading demand & supply planning using statistical tools and regional sales inputs.
• Converting demand plan to supply plan and driving strategic S&OP with regional operation, marketing as key stakeholders in the process.
• Works closely with the regions/zones to understand key deviation in demand/supply planning/ forecasting process and drive interventions to improve forecast accuracy
• Work closely with manufacturing for the production scheduling and dispatch schedule adherence to ensure customer service/OTIF 99%
• To Run SAP MRP on weekly basis and make sure that all POs/SL are made on time
• To keep maintaining hygiene of POs
• To coordinate with vendors and make sure that delivery compliance is >95% based on PO date Coordinate with Central Transportation team on placement of trucks and make sure delivery on time
• To keep interacting with regional QA and make sure that stocks are released on time
• To provide support to Central planning in terms of planning new products on time.
• To facilitate proper discontinuation of products from the system by:
• Timely sharing of system stock information with the business
• Facilitating inter-SCC movements for faster liquidation of stock
• Facilitating approval from marketing on write-off of stocks to SCCs

Preferred candidate profile

• Qualification B.E. or B.Tech (Any Stream)
• Experience 4-9 years experience specialised in field of retail / services industry with exposure to supply chain operations (Preferably cold chain exposure)
• Ability to analyse and solve problems for long term
• Open to challenging the status quo
• Analytical bent of mind