Supply Planning Role(1C / 1D)The role of Supply Planner is to optimize inventory, service and cost while dealing with volatility. Lead must be the supply chain face for the relevant category and collaborate with customer marketing, planning, and sales teams continuously. He/ She will be leading the team of central supply and network planners and branch customer service team to bring in efficiencies and manage disruptions. Lead must work with planning excellence, demand planning and distribution planning to implement new technologies in planning and customer service. He/she should lead supply chain strategy to build an agile, efficient, collaborative, and aligned end to end network. Provide leadership and inspiration to drive cost savings projects. He/ She will have to collaborate with all branches and be the supply chain point of contact for the category and other supply chain teams.
Key Accountabilities
Manage the supply planning process; focusing on short term supply planning and inventory management of finished goods.Generate Short/Medium term master production scheduling and material requirement planning.Identify and decide on short term supply issues within the guidelines set up by RCSNPM.Highlight short/medium term exceptional cases to RCSNPMWork closely with the third party planning team (local and imported packs) to ensure delivery of customer service, stock and cost requirementsWork closely with the logistics teams to ensure delivery of customer service, stock and cost requirements.Work closely with distribution to understand outbound network constraints and liaise with the appropriate planning teams (site and third party) to overcome short/medium term constraintsIdentify potential bottlenecks on finished goods production, including with key suppliers, and propose ways to resolve them at optimal costWork closely with demand planning manager to drive complexity reduction in terms of SKUsDeliver the business supply planning process, particularly the annual supply planning process, to ensure a robust supply plan is issued to the manufacturing sourcing units, third party and sourcing teams for volume and cost planning purposes.Manage the stock holding policy in order to meet customer service level targets.Manages material inventories and material call offs of RM/PM with suppliers within set inventory targets.Determines inbound logistics requirementsResponsible for primary and secondary DRP and execute primary DRP from SU to primary DC’sScrap and CAD managementSupport project teams and ensure appropriate early management rigour in delivering innovation through the wider supply chain. This includes early management of write offs.Here is how your day at Unilever would look like:Create production plans basis forward demandCollaborate with category on going plan for the categoryCollaborate with the Sales and Central Planning team to prepare SC actions as relevantReview production plans to meet demand at optimum service and inventory levels at every depotPlanning for event prebuild and full executionLead all activation networks to drive efficiency and agile Supply ChainDo collab and coordination with factory teams to ensure best availability with costCollaborate with Manufacturing , Procurement and Logistics teams to ensure service levelLeverage digital and AI based planning tools and develop future models to improve efficienciesDrive projectsUnderstand Customer nuiances and design planning principles to improve serviceKey KPIs
Service-CCFOT, MSTN and Day 0 CCFInventory- RDOH, Glide path, DBNROthers- CPT, Km travelled, Business wasteSystem Implementation- Digital planning skillsKey Stakeholders
Category Teams- Marketing, Customer MarketingFactory teamsCustomer Development- -CCMs, ASMsPlanning- Central Demand and Distribution Planning teams, Planning Excellence,Delivery- Branch Fulfilment teams and Central LogisticsCategory & SC FinanceProcurement and R&D.
