A Supply Chain (SC) Planner irresponsible for monitoring and managing inventories and forecasting sales and production levels for materials that are needed. This includes tracking inventory delivery performance and response time. The role of the Supply Chain Planner is critically important to the successful operation of an organization by meeting customer demand, increasing efficiency, decreasing waste, and lowering costs.
Responsibilities of the role include resolving inventory in-stock issues such as the depth, timing, and efficient flow of inventory that support financial objectives. Additionally, supply chain planning includes managing the purchasing process, creating/managing inventory budgets, ensuring that inventory levels meet demand, and gathering data to prepare trends and forecasting reports for colleagues, management, and other stakeholders.
The Supply Chain Planner is responsible for reviewing, monitoring, and addressing raw materials / full good inventory levels to minimize potential out-of-stock risk to production/sales.
Scope of Role
- Lead Production, Sales & Operations overall planning (Production, Sales and Operations Planning) process to optimize the value chain relationships within company businesses to deliver value and provide transparency to the organization on constraints, opportunities, etc.
- Coordination and execution of all activities related to the planning of raw materials and components, converting the output of the Yearly Production Schedule (YPS) and the Detailed Schedule (DS) into material requirements (MRP) to ensure the availability of the right quantity of components to the production lines when needed.
- Be an integral part of a team that optimizes the flow of materials, while considering the production and sales targets, factory warehouse capacity and inventory targets in order to eliminate potential disruptions in the storage, and storage costs and avoid material scrap at the site level
Purpose of Role
- Responsible for reviewing, monitoring, and addressing raw materials / full good inventory levels to minimize potential out-of-stock risk to production/sales
- To ensure effective, efficient, and timely communication between different stakeholders across the organization.
- Serve as the primary point of contact and works closely with factory warehouse, production, sales, and logistics colleagues as well as with the procurement team in order to ensure that plans are aligned with demand and supply.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
- Responsible for aligning the supply chain with other stakeholders.
- Responsible for maintaining inventory at maximum levels; supervisory or lead functions required.
- Set preferred stock levels and prevent excess inventory
- Performs finite scheduling of work orders in consideration of key constraints
- Project forward-looking inventory positions and financial implications
- Plan both short- and long-term to align supply and demand to support inventory needs
- Monitor and track raw material usage in production runs (plan vs actual).
- Monitor the movement of materials through purchasing, storage, and production.
- Track and report efficiencies and yields associated with inventory/production.
- Reconcile raw materials, and track/report in breakage, damage, and loss.
- Participate in weekly supply chain meetings
- Report to management/supervision daily out-of-stock items/materials
- Perform weekly age analysis and report any close-dated product.
- Liaises with warehouse staff to understand and adhere to space constraints, managing inventory levels within agreed targets.
- Facilitate and lead weekly Sales and Operation meetings with stakeholders to review sales, production, purchase forecasts, proposed orders, and other operational issues.
- Connect with production planning to ensure a seamless flow of information and ensure a fully integrated approach to delivering key metrics Customer Service, Inventory, and Cost.
- Develop and monitor internal and external key performance indicators including forecast accuracy and vendor scorecard metrics
- Manage inventory levels and produced product replenishments to meet sales demand.
- Create and prioritize product replenishments to meet the demand replenishment plan.
- Generate and review daily reports.
- Prepare and file reports.
- Other duties as assigned by management.
Kindly Note only short-listed candidates will be contacted.