Production Planner

Purpose of the job

Responsible for production planning of select categories, ensuring proactive fulfillment of SKU demand across all channels. Monitors production performance against planned targets (tickets) and supports the function with daily, weekly, and monthly MIS reporting

Major Responsibilities

• Receive demand plan and orders from all sales channels + regions and convert this to production plan.

• Work with plant PPC to get the most suitable production confirmation against plan.

• Provide supply confirmation to sales channels based on available stocks and production plan.

• Monitor actual production against plan at respective plants.

• Work with R&D and Plants on manufacturing capacity and capability enhancement projects.

• Work with R&D and Product Mktg on New Product Development and map it to plants as per manufacturing capability.

Skills & Knowledge

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:

• 3-5 years in Production/Demand Planning in multiple source environment
• Exposure to manufacturing environment is desirable

KPI’S

• Stock Out% and Demand fulfillment
• Production ticket adherence (%) & Inventory Control (%)
• SLOB inventory
• Improvement Projects

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS:

Knowledge(Technical / Functional)

1. Knowledge of SAP is essential
2. Knowledge of tools in demand planning and other business processes like S&OP
3. Good knowledge of MS Excel is a must
4. Knowledge of PowerBI is essential

Skills:

1. Planning Skills
2. Communication skills
3. Team and people management
4. Customer (internal and external) focus