Execution Planner

Main Job Purpose:
The Execution Planner is the Planning representative at Unilever’s factories from both FG and RMPM perspective.

The role covers Production and Material Scheduling for week 0 to 1 horizon: receives the Production Plan for the week - Master Product Schedule (MPS) - creates a daily production schedule to meet the end of week production outputs and schedules and executes the daily call offs of Raw and Packaging Materials from suppliers.

The Execution Planner ensures that changes to factory capacities and other operational parameters are fed back to the L2 Hub to ensure that executable Plans are created.

Plays a key role in building the Planning relationship with the factories to drive plan adoption.

Key Accountabilities:
Production Scheduling:

- Schedule the factory resources optimally in line with the Master Production Schedule (MPS) provided by the L2 Planning Hub for week 0 to 1 horizon:

- Review previous week’s performance against schedule and agree production orders to be carried over
- Align with factories to confirm inputs to line scheduling (e.g., factory calendar, labour)
- Create the production schedules in line with the MPS
- Ensure that materials are available before presenting the production schedules to the factory for sign off
- Ensure that production schedules are in line with warehouse capacity constraints
- Align with the factory operations teams, challenge and adjust schedules as necessary and publish
- Feed back to the L2 Planning Hub when adjustments are needed to improve the MPS in future
- Incorporate in week adjustments as necessary - Innovations, Breakdowns, Unplanned Maintenance
- Monitor and drive conformance of Operations to the production schedule
- Act as point of contact between the factory and the L2 Hub i.e., communicate factory information needed by the L2 Hub to create an executable MPS
- Monitor and manage volume of product left from change overs and rework activities
- Propose adjustments to the MPS to E2E Planner to resolve constraints
- Manage unexpected plan shutdowns or extraordinary events and communicate at the earliest opportunity to the L2 Hub
- Convert Planned Orders to Process Orders
- Flag any risks to delivering export specific volume to the Market Collaboration Planner
- Flag any risks to delivering local and export (shared SKU) volume to the Market Collaboration Planner
- Flag any short-term risks to the E2E Planner weekly before weekly Ops meeting
- Work with the operations team to generate run sequences per line to minimise downtime and maximise output
- Review previous week’s performance and root cause, adjust plans after checking carry overs.

Material Scheduling:

- Schedule the delivery of materials with Suppliers, monitor delivery logistics (Call off)
- Liaise with local Suppliers to ensure material availability to meet schedules and define and execute corrective actions
- Manage and resolve week 0 to 1 material availability crises with suppliers
- Execute SLOB management actions proposed by the Inventory ptimisation Specialist
- Maintain delivery due list with inbound warehouse personnel
- Ensure the tracking document is populated with integrity of materials by ensuring prompt write offs of obsolete stocks (following global policy)
- Recommend changes on POs to L2 team (MRP Coordinator)

Liaison with other parties:

- Escalate to Procurement planned material availability issues
- Liaise with inbound stores on overdue deliveries and follow up with suppliers
- Liaise with inbound stores and Suppliers for most desirable delivery days
- Liaise with Suppliers of rejected materials and ensure that all materials are returned to the suppliers
- Ensure that all GRN on materials on week 0 to 1 are capture timelessly, and if not escalate to the Market & Site Collaboration Planner
- Advise Suppliers of all changes in stock holding policy to ensure that stock is appropriately managed

Output Reliability (OR):

- Review previous week’s factory performance against plan (Latest Plan OR) and input into the weekly OR loss tree with sourcing unit input and consensus (owned by Ops).
- Report on losses and plans to improve in weekly Ops meetings and S&OP Supply meeting, when required.

Transition Management:

- Execute material write offs at product launches, re-launches, SKU rationalisation, VIP projects, working closely with the E2E planner to ensure that all plans are optimised and run-out schedules are accurately maintained
- Incorporate transition activities into the daily schedule e.g., schedule production trials
- Provide input into MOC for FG
- Manage RMPM material write offs at product launches, re-launches, SKU rationalisation, 5S projects, working closely with the MRP Coordinator to ensure that all plans are optimised and run-out schedules are accurately maintained
- Ensure material availability for RMPM on week 0 to 1 - production trials, ramp up and ramp down
- Provide input into MOC for RMPM

Working Capital Management:

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