Deputy Manager - Demand and Supply Planning

Work Schedule

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Job Description

Position Summary: The role is to drive central demand and supply planning process for Consumables who will be responsible for E2E cycle of Demand and Supply Planning of Consumables, including E & O, Inventory, DOS, and SIOP which will ultimately bring excellent customer allegiance.

Essential Job Functions and Accountabilities:

Demand Planning:

• MTO - MTS Determination
• Monthly and quarterly rolling forecast
• Define ROP levels to ensure proper balance between demand and supply
• Arrange consensus with commercial teams
• Measure and report forecast accuracy, propose, and implement solutions to improve forecast accuracy.
• Successfully communicate final forecast and inventory estimations to other stakeholders.

• Leading execution calls for consumables.

Drive SIOP       

• Generate data for SIOP
• Consolidate the data and deep analysis to prepare the final data
• Responsible for monthly revenue blocker updation to support the revenue numbers
• Analysis on Key gaps in revenue at category and SKU level mitigation plan
• Co-ordinate with stakeholders like commercial, finance, product management, warehouse, etc.
• Conduct full blown SIOP including - NPI (Phase-in / phase-out), Demand review, supply review, operations review, finance review and executive review.
• Present final SIOP deck to management for critical decisions
• Direct the action item of SIOP meeting with respective key member and take the follow ups as per the timeline
• Follow up Closure of Action item from respective key member
• To have a close review of forecast to control on generation of new E&O

Supply Planning:

• Define ROP levels across network and monitor them per stocking norms.
• Generation of daily MRP through SAP considering forecast for the month or review ROP levels.
• Placement of orders, follow-up for materials, track delivery.
• Ensure there are no controllable stock out of materials.
• Inventory investment / planning MTO inventory through decision paper only
• Prepare and present shippable backlog on quarterly basis
• Review the entire network inventory from demand and supply hygiene point of view drive the route cause analysis and subsequent corrective action
• Share the visibility to customer service team on weekly basis
• Engage with cross functional teams like Exim, Warehouse, transportation etc to ensure ATP

Data Analytics and Process Improvements

• Bring Data science experience to analyze various datasets and to come up with the observations
• Responsible to support line manager for business analytics from demand and supply point of view
• Use various techniques to automate the reports and analysis
• Responsible to support line manager for business analytics for ongoing projects directly related to planning and procurement function
• Responsible to support line manager for preparing presentation as per the business requirement
• Identify the process improvement scope in every aspect of business to bring efficiency within the system

Inventory Management

• Drive the Inventory Planning as per the AOP
• Continue to Monitor the SKU/Location level DOS performance
• Engage with commercial for Slow Moving and Non-Moving stock
• Excess inventory re-shuffling within existing network.
• Inventory, DOS and E&O to remain on plan

Key KPI

• LIFR (Fill Rate)
• Forecast Accuracy
• LOTC (Suppler Fill Rate)
• DOS (Days of stock) 
• D&E
• Visibility Accuracy
• Factory performance
• PPI

Note: Tracking bowler for all KRA’s on monthly basis