Associate Manager - Distribution Planning - FMCG

Job Description :

- This role includes supply chain analytics and hence a lot of data handling through MS Excel is involved

- Plan shipments from Factory to Hubs, HUBs to Warehouses or HUBs to HUBs based on the demand

- Ensure Inventory norms adherence by keeping sufficient stocks at each node

- Generate monthly production requirements based on Monthly forecast, Inventory norm & Annual business plan

- Historical data correction by considering market movement, product saleability, trend, and seasonality changes

- Uploading of estimates in the APO system, after final Consensus with required stakeholders such as Sales and Marketing team.

- Ensure correctness of master data in the system for seamless data integration across multiple transactions

- Ideal Delivery Order generation basis the disaggregated forecast and cover norms decided at WSP & WD Nodes

- Perform a sanity check on the uploaded forecast numbers to eliminate errors due to any noises identified at downstream sales level as well as a system master data level

- Calculate forecast metrics, accuracy, bias fidelity, fill-rate, and other KPIs on a periodic basis

- Data preparation to facilitate monthly S&OP meetings