Supply Chain Planning Manager at Confidential Company

Jobs — By Jennie on October 18, 2010 at 2:36 am

The incumbent has overall responsibility for managing Planning & ordering of imported Finished goods (FG) in the Food & Beverage Categories for our clients’ organization in the Gulf and KSA.

In the Planning Manager’s role, with a team of 1-2 direct reports, the incumbent handles a variety of jobs in Supply Chain such as to prepare supply plans based on demand plans, Distribution Requirements Planning, communicate plans to suppliers and ensure goods are received in the Regional Distribution Cemtre (RDC) for dispatches to GCC and Yemen distributors. The role also involves managing promotions and innovations from preparation of supply plans to delivery.

The key objective of the job is to ensure availability of products at RDC/ suppliers in order to achieve high Customer Service Levels at optimum costs.

Key Accountabilities:

Supplier Relationship Management

■To establish and sustain collaborative/ productive relationship with internal and 3rd Party Suppliers.

■Establish Supplier Service Agreements jointly with Supply Management.

■Implement a supplier rating process to monitor and improve supplier delivery performance.

Order Cycle Management (P2P)

■Responsible for timely & effective management of complete Order to Payment (Procurement to Payment) cycle for finished goods.

■Set-up Continuous improvement Program (CIP) action plans with suppliers and follow-up progress.

■Review Critical stocks / OOS at distributors, RDC and initiate corrective actions to remedy the situation.

■Pro-actively inform Customer Service Team about potential supply interruptions with duration, likely impact on forward supplies.

■Manage timely planning & delivery of promotions and innovation (new products) supplies.

■Monthly review of stock profiles.

■Manage inventory at optimum level by running Stock modelling and monitoring inventory levels.

Planning:

■Review forward estimates of requirements prepared by direct reports & forward supply confirmation given by suppliers against the plans submitted.

■Review Purchase Order receipts against the plan. Pro-actively follow up on backlogs. Work with suppliers in order to minimize the impact by prioritizing requirements when faced with supply constraints.

■Monitoring and controlling full pipeline inventories on a monthly basis.

Financial Management:

■Ensure supplier invoices are verified on-time to effect timely payments to finished goods suppliers and co-packers.

■Ensure recovery of amounts is made in case of agreed quality issues from suppliers.

Other responsibilities:

■Develop a Customer focussed team. Prepare development plans, targets for self, direct reports. Carryout regular performance reviews (2/ year formal), provide feedback.

■Maintain highest quality standards, ensure safe working practices and care for environment through total compliance with the guidelines set up in Company Quality, Health & safety, Environment, customer service and consumer service & consumer safety policies of our client.

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