Supply Planner
1 day ago
**Department**:
Supply Chain - Planning
**Employment Type**:
Permanent
**Job Purpose**:
- Coordinate with demand planning team and manufacturing sites/3rd party suppliers to optimize inventory and stock supply security. Manage and coordinate the supply plan commitments, determining priorities and implementing strategies to reduce out-of-stock and over-stock issues. Manage, analyse, and coordinate the supply planning portfolios for Cipla Africa based manufacturing sites and own, manage and lead the demand fulfilment and customer service for 3rd party suppliers.
- Complex role with multiple facets and both highly analytical, transactional, and operational in nature. Multiple stakeholders and focus on collaborative and cross functional working with both local and global stakeholders.
**Accountabilities 1/3**:
- Support, analyse and reporting for Supply S&OP Process
- Lead and manage relevant sales and operations execution meetings with suppliers.
- Assess stock prioritization, pull forward and deferral request based on demand movements in conjunction with demand planner.
- Analyse and propose stock to norm (STN) requirements for all SKU’s. Ensure stock holding conforms with inventory policy and targets and investigate deviations for corrective actions. Alternatively provide scenarios for decision making on proposed stock holding.
- Identify and review items with excess inventory and propose action plan.
- Manage short, dated stock and drive demand shaping with Marketing, mitigation planning with Commercial team.
- Minimize write off costs on slow moving stock by proposing change in stock policy or demand shaping actions to reduce write off
- Preparation of supply planning related reports for monthly supplier engagement meetings, Supply S&OP meetings and compiling of presentation decks
- Providing commentary monthly on excess and shortfall stock as well as key drivers to inventory forward.
**Accountabilities 2/3**:
- Support Section 21 supply process
- Liaise with Cipla India for SA Market supply commitment visibility
- Manage 3rd Party QA on post importation testing (PIT) (where applicable)
- Provide replenishment requirement views for maintaining STN
- Provide front end feedback to the supply sites on latest demand movements
- Coordinate discussions with demand planners on the opportunities and risks regarding demand and supply.
- Provide input to supply points in developing inventory strategies on existing, new and phased-out products
- Track stock supply point delivery vs actual, conduct required follow up to ensure service delivery
- Support API/RM/PM availability for finished good products where needed.
**Accountabilities 3/3**:
**CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT**:
- Conduct ad hoc analytics required improve supply visibility and commitments
- Support demand planning team and CI & Digital Manager with process and system streamlining and improvement plans
- Drive SKU STN analytics and segmentation in day to day planning activities
- Driving Digitalization and automation of analytics and reporting in supply chain
**Education Qualification**:
- Relevant Graduate Bachelors University qualification in Supply Chain Management (BComm), Logistics (BComm) or Engineering (BIng)
**Relevant Work Experience**:
- 3+ years of supply planning, supply chain analytics, industrial engineering
- Exposure to supply chain and S&OP is advantageous
- Experience in Demand Planning including replenishment forecasting is a plus
- Previous exposure on working with statistical forecast is a plus
- Previous experience in data analytics/science is a plus
- CPF or CPIM an advantage
- Experience in the FMCG/Pharmaceutical industries is advantageous
- Knowledge of exports/imports is advantageous
- Good working knowledge with ERP systems (SAP), Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and BI Platforms
**Competencies/Skills**:
**Job Location**:
Cape Town
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