Supply Chain Planning Specialist

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Mission:

The Supply Chain Planning Specialist is the key role for planning, controlling, and scheduling all activities supporting assigned product lines / families with limited supervision from Supply Chain Planning Team Manager. The Supply Chain Planning Specialist balances production and inventory levels with demand to support targets consistent with customer service levels, inventory turns. 

The Supply Chain Planning Specialist develops feasible, 24-month rolling master plans for the replenishment of semi-finished goods/raw materials of each product and/or product family sourced from inter-company, as well as finished goods outsourced for manufacturing locally. He or she is responsible for determining time phased requirements for all purchased products.

The Supply Chain Planning Specialist leads all efforts to maintain systematic business rules relative to supply planning, address product availability issues, and ensure that long term supply constraint issues are resolved as one supply chain team or escalated when appropriate.

Role:

Supply Planning

• Develop feasible supply plans (24-month rolling) for finished goods, semi-finished goods and raw materials.
• Update the 24-month rolling supply plan on a monthly frequency with net change updates.
• Ensure that monthly forecasts from Demand Planning are fed into the ERP system and that supply plans (DRP) support the required customer service levels.
• Work closely with the Financial Planning (Demand Planning) team to ensure lead-time and production capacity requirements are considered when reviewing and approving all demands, including new product launches. 
• Ensure that there is appropriate coordination and communicate of a rolling 24-month supply plan (DRP) to Global Operations outside the time-fenced planning period
• Track all supply planning and inventory status on a monthly basis, and report results monthly. 
• Ensure that all planning parameters are reviewed and updated regularly, e.g. safety days, in-transit lead time, production lead time.
• Recommend changes to target inventories, turns and safety stocks when necessary to deliver required customer service levels. Recommend disposal of obsolete or expired inventories as appropriate.
• Creates the Supply Plan by translating the demand forecast into an aggregated schedule for acquiring semi-finished goods and/or raw materials required for local manufacturing and primary /secondary over labeling
• Collaborates with Global Operations and/or Supply Chain Brand team to develop supply plans that will meet customer and business needs. Escalates supply constraints as needed and with appropriate lead time.
• Creates and maintains a rolling 24-month supply and inventory plan by family for review.
• Identifies and resolves conflicts with supply and demand, and availability of capacity. 

New Product Launch (NPI)

• Engage multiple NPI project as assigned to assist the development of supply chain strategy, launch management / execution and post-launch value chain management for multiple new products.
• Effectively communicate the status of NPI projects, issues, risks and opportunities for optimization together with the manager. 
• Phase out product identified and managed to plan to minimize obsolescence including finished goods, semi-finished goods and raw materials.
• Participate Supply Chain function in various recurring supplier or other product meetings as necessary. 

Third Party Manufacture (TPM) Management

• Collaborate with TPM to ensure production plans established and potential risk to supply identified and mitigated.
• Understand supplier capabilities and potential risk and impact on supply chain and customers driving implementation of mitigation plans where needed.
• Collaborate with Financial Planning, Brand Team and other Supply Chain team members to influence launch or phase out plans to optimize revenue growth, cost, inventory, obsolescence, and speed to market highlighting trade-offs, cost/benefit analyses, and making recommendations.
• Ensure appropriate contingency plans established based on levels of risk (i.e. Capacity shortfall, demand exceed forecast, etc.).

Product Master Data Management

• Working with Japan Supply Chain Planning peers to collect and gather the necessary information and/or Master Data team to define standards and rules to ensure master data integrity and are compliant with defined information and policies.
• Responsible for updating existing item master data in SAP, Master Data Management and manage all necessary changes/updates to item master data as required.
• Responsible to ensure data quality and quality Control (QC) processes together with responsible SCM expert within a team.
• Monitor the workflow process for new item requests, changes, and deletions and entering data in SAP.

Others

• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Requirements

• BA. or BS in business, engineering or supply chain management field.
• Minimum of 3 years production / planning / scheduling work experience in a supply chain related field or demonstrated skills.
• Must possess excellent English communication and presentation skills.
• Strong ERP systems and computer software experience e.g. SAP, Oracle, Excel, Power Point, and Visio. 
• Technical Skills: Production Planning: Creation and management of a feasible and balanced supply plan, in accordance with agreed service levels / days of supply for each customer appropriate raw material and component supply plans short, medium- and long-term production planning identified 'constraints' within the extended supply chain
• Inventory Principles & Management: Strategic and operational management of inventory and inventory policies, meeting operational and customer service targets whilst minimizing cost of working capital and potential obsolescence and redundancy. 
• Leads for change and embraces a continuous improvement philosophy and approach to work. (Influencing Others/ Change Leadership)
• Process Management: Good at defining and creating the processes necessary to get things done, knows how to organize people and activities, understands how to separate and combine tasks into efficient work flow, knows what to measure and how to measure it, can see opportunities for synergy and integration where others can’t, can simplify complex processes, gets more out of fewer resources. Looks for opportunities to create & share Best Practices.
• Problem Solving/ Root Cause Analysis: Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions.
• Travel requirement: Some local and global travel required – typically not to exceed 5%.

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