Sales and operation Planning Manager

Role & responsibilities

• Guardianship of all existing / revised processes
• Custodianship of plant capacity and lead time information, buffer sizing and dynamic buffer management processes
• Ensure seamless coordination between sales and marketing, design and engineering, procurement, manufacturing, testing and dispatch to drive supply chain alignment with customer demand; in short, manage the flow through effective planning and focused execution from the point of order booking to supply of goods and services to the clients
• Provide Operations support to establish and maintain load control and protective capacity at constraint workstations enabling the elusive balance between optimal inventory and superior due date performance
• Establish and maintain an effective interface between Central Planning and Sales and Marketing to drive efficient Sales and Operations Planning
• POOGI in Operations and Supply Chain
• Identify potential risks i.e. supply disruptions, system and process weakness/ indiscipline, resource constraints etc. and develop appropriate risk mitigation strategies
• Participate in central planning meetings with other business unit members to maintain high level of customer service and integrity of the plan; proactively react to and communicate schedule/ priority changes.
• Ensure that the risk procedure is followed and that all risks and opportunities are identified
• Establish activity-based controls enabled through pre-identified triggers and checkpoints
• Highlight potential problems, overloads or under-utilization of constrained resources using systems capacity planning information
• Ensure effective tracking systems are in place that give real time status of schedule and cost performance versus plan
• Understand fluctuations in the volume and mix that is emerging from the market data and factor the same into the central planning process