Title:  Manager - 1

Position:  Demand Planner – India Business

Education: Graduate (BE / B.Pharma / BSc / Graduate)  with MBA in SCM

Job Summary:

This position requires good communication skills, team working and stakeholder management. The job requires close working with Business, various Manufacturing locations, Back-end co-ordinators viz., API, Purchase, Quality, R &D, Regulatory and business functions.

• Responsible for sharing the RFC Demand and ensuring Material Requirements Planning (MRP) is done as per specified timelines.
• Generate shortages and share to all facilitators
• Follow-up for deliveries of all RM / PM against shortages
• Review at regular intervals on all aspects relating to RM/PM and maintain optimal inventory as per norms.
• To closely interface with manufacturing and facilitate all issues in relation to RM / PM.
• Ensure commits of all SKUs are in line with Demand.
• Exceptions to be highlighted and escalated.
• To conduct / facilitate S & OP, Executive S & OP & Strat S&OP meetings along with Demand Planners.
• To ensure close interface with Quality / R &D / Regulatory and other facilitating functions for any issues relating to product.
• Ensure classification of RM / PM into ABC categories
• Periodic review of inventory by identifying slow moving, obsolete SKUs interface with slob management team for liquidation.
• Follow-up with mfg on price implementation as per work flow.
• Responsible for maintaining and ensuring robust Demand vs Commits vs Supply ratio with least gaps
• Ensures that manufacturing budget is prepared and shared in consensus with all facilitators
• Responsible to monitor budget vs actuals are met, else to raise flag to both Mfg & business thru Demand Planners for meeting the targets
• Ensures right feedback is shared to business thru Demand Planners on product availability and issues at regular intervals.
• To understand relevant methodologies, processes and standards operating procedures of all supply chain requirements
• To co-ordinate with Head SCM in ensuring all key KPIs of SCM as per norms are monitored from time to time and achieved.
• Responsibility of entire Forecasting of SKUs
• Review Statistical Forecasting
• Planning and forecasting accurately demand of the SKUs in APO
• Interfacing with Sales Head for release forecast
• Review / ensure forecast Accuracy are in line with the limits set.
• Releasing Rolling Forecast (Demand) to Manufacturing
• Interface with Business on fixing of Price increase as per process and plot in the RFC.
• Follow-up with Mfg for commits
• To conduct S & OP meeting with mfg plants.
• To monitor on price increase implementation regularly
• Interfacing with Marketing for new product requirements post launch and Physician Sample requirements for existing products
• To co-ordinate with Logistics for movement of stocks from Mfg to RWs and forward movement to all locations.
• To monitor and ensure TCS norms across locations
• Regular review of stocks and ensure quick replenishment
• Responsible for maintaining stocks levels as per Inventory Norms
• Closely interface with business in relation to all stock related requirements and seek to get market inputs for forecasting accurately
• Closely interface with Supply Planning, Mfg, Quality, Purchase and internal facilitators for seeking resolution to ensure seamless availability of all SKUs.
• Responsible for MIS reports to Management relating to inventory / budgets / Forecast etc.
• Provide long term forecasts for annual budgets for mfg capacity planning.
• Responsible for identifying slow moving SKUs, short expiries and interface with business for liquidation.
• To ensure classification of SKUs into ABC categories

• Identify C class brands periodically, review with business for SKU rationalization prior to budget preparation.