Supply Planner

Role

The role of a Master Schedular is pivotal for coordinating and optimizing production schedules, inventory levels, and resources to meet customer demand, ensure efficient operations, and contribute to the organization's success. This position plays a key role in balancing supply and demand, minimizing costs, and maintaining a streamlined production process. The role of a Master Scheduler is essential for ensuring a well-organized and efficient production process within Organization. By effectively managing production schedules, resources, and inventory levels, the Master Scheduler contributes to meeting customer demands, optimizing operations, and achieving the organizations.

Responsibilities:

• Develops formulations and packaging Supply Plan for the 0-4 months horizon in weekly buckets in IBP.
• Use scenarios to evaluate alternate supply solutions as the planners develop a feasible procurement, production and materials distribution plan.
• Manage gaps and risks in the plan by identifying options not accounted for by the system, including coordinating with necessary stakeholders (e.g., expedited delivery, additional labor).
• Evaluate options for non-productive inventory and implement the best proposal
• Identify options for schedule optimization (cost, capacity, etc)
• Maintains close communication with Demand Planner to evaluate changes proposed through the exception process
• Responsible for maintaining all the master data for the existing SKUs.
• Creation of New Master data (SKU Creation, Extend, Update etc.,) through MDG Tool & Service Now Tickets.
• Own and improve the Planning Metrics along with Health Check metrics relevant to the Role.
• Lead Weekly Supply S&OE & Monthly Supply Review including risks and upsides.
• Own various reports (Inventory projection, Slow moving Inventory etc) for the sub-region, Support yearly budget activities.
• Coordination with cross functional team for successful execution of New Product Introduction through system.
• Work with Inter-country/Inter-region stakeholders to get the required products on time with Stock Transfer Orders.
• Participates in supply chain improvement assignments/initiatives driven by COE and participates in special assignments.

Requirement:

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 5-10 years of experience in supply chain management, production planning, or a related field.
• Proficiency in using Integrated Business Planning (IBP) tools and software.
• Experience with Master Data Governance (MDG) tools and ServiceNow for SKU creation and management.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to identify and mitigate risks in the supply plan.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.