Assistant Manager - Planning - Manufacturing

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 centre 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)

Create statistical forecasts

- Gather, analyse and validate data

- Review resulting statistical forecast model

- Apply error analysis techniques to improve forecasting

- Summarize/aggregate statistical forecasts

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.

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