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02/09 Puneet Sood
Managing Partner at Clips India

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Assistant Manager - Planning - Auto/FMCG/FMCD/Retail (2-8 yrs)

Kolkata/West Bengal Job Code: 1149419

Assistant Manager Planning


Basic Function:


- Develop demand forecasts (operational forecasts) at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple time horizons as part of a demand planning function.

- Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results.

- Coordinate cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the forecast model to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions considering dynamic business scenario.

- Interact with CPP & regional ops to understand demand forecast drivers.

- Utilize a collaborative and consensus approach by working with CPP & regional ops to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information is used for demand forecasts.

- Use and maintain the MRP & COGNO as the primary forecasting system tool.

- Provide input to the Supply Planning organization in developing inventory strategies on existing items, new products, and product phase-outs.

- Closely coordinate and communicate customer action plans with CPP team

- Build supplier reliability index & performance rating.

- Inter & intra department coordination

Distribution Requirements Planning / Replenishment:

- Determines and ensures execution of deployment strategies for Finished Goods i.e. push vs pull

- Understands and influences the planning parameters (In-House and External) and assumptions i.e. production cycle time, sequencing, volatility

- Derives Finished Goods (FG's) stock policy using inventory planning models by stock holding location

- Determines gross requirements by distribution center or market

- Understands warehouse and transportation capacity planning

- Manages and influences customer relationship s e.g. Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)

- Understands the customer requirements in the short term (e.g. Lead time / min max stock)

- Zero stock out situations

- Supplier KPI

- No or less rejection

- Timely delivery

Create statistical forecasts:

- Gather, analyse and validate data

- Review resulting statistical forecast model

- Apply error analysis techniques to improve forecasting

- Summarize/aggregate statistical forecasts

- No stock out

Provide input to volume planning ( Latest Estimates / annual process/Vendor reliability & performance:

- Facilitate and manage demand planning/customer meetings

- Achieve consensus with the business side and the demand chain performance parameter. - Customer (Internal / external ) Satisfaction

Maintain demand planning system and software:

- Enter and modify data and ensure the correctness of product hierarchy

- Monitor trends in forecast error ; Zero stock out

Production Scheduling:

- Optimizes and communicates the line schedule taking into account sequencing

- Creates feasible production schedules, considers constraints, e.g. line capacity, labour, batch sizes, run rates, bottlenecks, planned downtime

- Understands difference between re-order point and fixed cycle scheduling, and when to apply the relevant strategy

- Executes agreed manufacturing run strategy

- Manages and communicates exceptions

- Influences the safety-stock holding of suppliers for Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) etc.

- Managing Inventory Planning, Managing Materials Requirements Planning (MRP), Managing Material Call Off ; No Stock out with adequate re order level

Agreeing Constrained Supply Plan:

- Conducts effective dialogue on assumptions and articulation of facts and evidence

- Optimizes inventory to deliver the demand plan

- Negotiates and influences the decision making process

- Understands and manages the functional and individual biases

- Determines and agrees key outputs e.g. constrained supply plan, coasted supply plan, inventory plan

- Raises future capacity and stock issues Determines continuous improvement - No stock out

- 100% delivery to the customer

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Maternity and Paternity Benefits

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