Assistant Supply Planning Manager

**Job Title: Assistant Supply Planning Manager**

**Location: Malaysia**

**The Purpose of Role**

The Supply Planner role is responsible for devising a production plan and managing the execution of the plan in order to support business needs. A Supply Planner acts as a key connector between Demand Planning and Manufacturing. It is the responsibility of the Planner to understand the business and to build a responsive network that can react to the volatility of the market while managing inventory levels, non-finished good material availability, and waste implications.

**Team Structure**:

- Reporting to: HC & FOODS Supply Planning Manager
- Direct reports: NIL
- Indirect reports: NIL

**Your Role/Key Responsibilities**:

- Establish supply requirement (RR) for Import & local manufacturing SKUs
- Review RR for DC - for the short term and long-term horizon.
- Analyze and evaluate the supply plans and net despatch requirements from SU.
- Manage exceptions via DRP alerts on incoming despatch plans from SU.
- Consistently achieve sustainable Customer Service Level for domestic by ensuring that the weekly planning process is executed on time.
- Operational Supply Planning
- Liaise regularly with sourcing units to review supply plans against customer forecasts and orders.
- Attend Regional Category Demand and Supply Reconciliation meetings and identifying short-term capacity constraints, highlighting these to the business and providing contingency plans.
- Prepare the loss-tree analysis for all the non-supplied orders.
- Review KPIs with the sourcing units at the end of each planning cycle.
- Monitor and leading the offshore supply planning operations.
- Product Transformation (Co-Packing Job)
- Product transformation at DC.
- Master data creation in liaison with MDM e.g. BOM, Master recipes, etc.
- Conversion of planned orders into process orders for subsequent activity to proceed.
- Communication of job order issued to relevant stakeholders e.g. co-packers, warehouse operations & Supply Operation Coordinator.
- Verify job order completion by co-packers and communicate to Supply Operation Coordinator (Promotion Administrator).
- Inventory Planning
- Determine the stock policies for Domestic Finished Goods using MEIO.
- Assists to conduct periodic review on stock cover policy for Domestic Finished Goods.
- Monitor days-on-hand against target and identifying improvement opportunities.
- Manage slow-moving and obsolete stocks (SLOB) by highlighting slow and non-moving stocks to the business to generate appropriate actions.
- Assists on planning aspects in new product development (NPD Launch / Relaunch)
- Work closely with Project Lead to complete relevant planning information as required in the NPD GANTT Chart.
- Work closely with Export Manager / Local 3PM to ensure timely launch of new products in collaboration with Factory Planning Team and Demand Planners.
- Follow up closely with materials workflows and update master data set up timely.
- Communication on plan transition & clearance plan from business.
- Manage Exceptions
- Demand Plans exception - review with Demand Planning Team on stock availability via D&SP / WORM meeting.
- Production/material shortfalls and Quality non-conformance - review with SU Planning Team /Local 3PM on the possible actions for speedy recovery.
- Supply shortages - review with various stakeholders on the possible actions to identify and close gaps.
- Champion in supply planning
- Governance on process flow to ensure the planning team is adherence to the correct process.
- Backup as MDM advisor when SP having issues on masterdata before issuing ticket to support team.
- To be SAP & Kinaxis champion in supply planning area.

**Key Stakeholders**:
Internal:

- Demand Planners
- SU Planners and SU Export CS Planners (Imported SKUs)
- CSP
- Marketing
- R&D
- QA
- Collaborative Manufacturer team
- Customer Service team
- Warehouse & Logistic team
- Procurement team

External:

- Co-packers
- Forwarding agents for imports
- Local 3PM

**Travel**:
10% of the time for travelling.

**Essential Experience/Skill/Knowledge**:

- 4-6 year of experience in supply chain planning, preferably within the FMCG industry.
- Strong business-partnering and proven track record is a must.
- Supply Planning Systems (e.g. SAP-RIP, Kinaxis, Coupa, DCIW, BOT)
- Inventory Management practices (e.g. MEIO adoption)

**Desirable Experience/Skill/Knowledge**:

- Demand forecasting and Supply Planning
- Innovation / New Product Development Project Management
- Inventory Optimization
- Process improvement experience

**How to Apply**:
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