Senior Analyst, Supply Planning (Finished Goods)

Summary of the role:

The Senior Analyst, Supply Planning (Finished Goods) is responsible for optimizing the balance of inventory across the supply chain network in line with target customer service levels, levels of forecast accuracy and safety stock levels for the portfolio of SKU for which they are accountable.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Determines policies and reviews safety stock and inventory levels and determines and reviews safety stock and inventory settings quarterly

• Regularly reviews and optimizes inventory parameters and levels (e.g. reorder pt, safety stock, ABC categorization) and places orders based upon agreed lead time and volume parameters

• Integrates new products, trials, and maintenance into production schedules and manages planning of repacking activities

• Plans replenishment across the Distribution Centre network (DRP) and other functionalities, ensuring that the right safety stock levels are set in the entire network (from plant to distribution center) and defines ABC categorization to define safety stock settings

• Owns the policy on VMI in line with customer requirements and accountable for quality and updates to Material Master Data and supply policies (EOQ, scheduling, etc.)

• Conducts regular business and performance reviews with Manufacturing and works closely with Logistics Service Provider coordinators

• Reviews and resolves exceptions of Rough-cut Constraint Calculation and Master Production Plan

• Prepares & assists in gap resolution as pre-work to the S&OP meeting and drives the flexible part of short-term supply to resolve alerts of real time issues

• Intermediary between Demand Planning and Factory Planning

• Reviews out of stock situations and defines actions to avoid this in the future (respecting the defined service levels per category)

• Is responsible for daily Deployment Requisition Planning, based on the inventory settings of the Inventory Function

• Will have close & daily contact with the Order Desk to ensure fulfillment, respecting the service level agreements and collaborate with Transportation/ Hauling to hand-over the Deployment Plan for Deployment Scheduling

Required Skills / Experience / Competencies:

• Graduate of Engineering or business-related course with 2 years of experience working in supply planning preferably in a multinational or multicultural environment

• System Knowledge in Microsoft Excel and SAP

• Full understanding and of total chain of planning processes and inventory policies and methodologies

Job Requirements:

• Full-time employment

• Overtime might be required depending on the critical deliverables

SC Johnson Asia has been recognized as theBest Multinational Workplace by Great Place to Work®!

Not ready to apply?  Sign up for Job Alerts.