Supply Planning Manager

Kuala Lumpur
Permanent
Full-time

1 month ago

Job Purpose and ImpactThe Supply Planning Manager responsible in managing a team of supply, material and production planners to ensure sufficient supply and optimum inventory for business continuity and growth. This role will provide long term supply strategies across networks to address capacity issues and production location decisions in support of business goals. In this role, you will drive key integrated business planning performance indicators, cost to serve performance data and coordinate cross functional work teams for higher service level.Key Accountabilities

Supply Planning

Ensure supply on time to meet customers required date at 95% service level.
Key liaison between manufacturing, commercial, logistic, demand planning and procurement teams to ensure product feasibility, material availability and smooth shipment execution.
Partner with the manufacturing sites to optimize production processes, ensure operational & product readiness for shipment execution.
Partner with the commercial on market outlook, supply availability and projects for new product launching.
Identify supply constraints and develop mitigation plants to ensure service continuity.
Manage supply crisis by providing scenarios simulation for decision making.
Inventory Planning and Forecasting

Maintain optimum and healthy inventory to support business requirement and optimum working capital.
Forecast future inventory holding using historical data, trends, and market analysis.
Reorder point calculation: Determining the optimum reorder stock and safety stock level to avoid stockouts and manage demand volatility.
Work with R&D, FSQR and production to NPI (non performing inventory) depletion plan.
Perform inventory matching for monthly cycle count/year end physical stock with system records to identify discrepancies at internal and external tankers, tollers, internal and external warehouse.
Perform annual/bi-annual ABCXYZ matrix for SKU rationalization.

S&OE & IBP process owner

Facilitate the S&OE (Sales & Operations Execution) & SP (Supply Point) process.
Provide supply visibility and risk assessments to support business decision.
Process Optimization

Leverage ERP to enhance planning accuracy and efficiency.
Drive continuous improvements in planning process, KPIs and planning tools.
Support digital transformation and automation of manual planning tasks.
Identify and resolve bottlenecks in the supply chain- planning process.

QualificationsMinimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

5 years of experience with at least one year in supply planning and production planning in FMCG related industry.
Strong end to end supply chain principles.
Experience in managing external/ toll manufacturers.
Good stakeholder management, both internal and external.
Strong negotiation skills.
Proficiency in both Mandarin and English.
Proficiency in planning system (eg. SAP) and Excels.

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