Supply Planner

Overview:

The Supply Planner will play a critical role in ensuring the seamless flow of materials, optimizing inventory levels, and meeting customer demand efficiently. This role requires strong analytical capabilities, excellent coordination skills, and a focus on continuous improvement to support the company's operational goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Generate monthly production requirement based on Monthly forecast, Inventory norm, Production capacity & Annual business plan
• Responsibility for leading the production planning processes, ensuring that we have the right products, at the right time and in the right place to meet customer demand and inventory targets.
• Reviews supply shortage alerts daily, takes corrective actions, completes Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and develops and actions Continuous Improvement (CI) plans.
• Work closely with manufacturing and procurement teams to ensure timely delivery of products and manage inventory levels by taking an active role in factory production planning
• Plan, Produce and distribute New launch products as per NPD launch timeline in line with Marketing plan
• Generation of Inventory Norm at CFA-SKU level considering the dispatch frequency.
• Plan shipments of Finished Goods from Factory to Depots.
• Ensure Inventory norms adherence by keeping sufficient stocks to at each node.
• Review of truck Load ability, drive utilization and perform stock movement in optimal way
• Provide the visibilities on tentative supplies or shortfall on against MSP on Month ends
• Monitor inventory levels to maintain optimal stock levels while minimizing holding costs.
• Implement inventory control measures to prevent overstocking or stockouts.
• Identify and implement process improvements in the supply planning cycle.
• Utilize data analytics to enhance forecasting accuracy and supply chain efficiency.
• Prepare and present reports on key supply chain metrics.
• Analyse supply chain trends and suggest actionable strategies for improvement.
• Strong excel and planning skills.