IFFCO Hiring for Demand Supply Planning Executive (Animal Feed/Premix Business) at Dubai, UAE Full Time

Job Summary

• Leading Sales & Operations planning of the category with rolling projection on business performance. Ensuring alignment between Commercial and Manufacturing team through Demand and Supply review. Sustaining OTIF service level through optimized Production planning & scheduling and MRP without compromising on working capitals, DOIs and obsolescence.

Roles & Responsibilities

Sales and Operation Planning (S&OP)

• Facilitates alignment among all stakeholders across phases of S&OP to arrive at consensus numbers
• Ensure Sales and Operations are aligned with Quarterly goals for Modern and General Trade across region
• Identifying future business risks and engage executive team for timely resolution
• Review progress of new product launch plan, strategic initiatives & operational excellence projects

Demand Planning 

• Lead short- & medium-term business planning, rough cut capacity planning and new product launch plans
• Deriving consensus demand based on baseline & intelligence inputs from Sales and Marketing team
• Update forecast model parameters to minimize bias error between base and consensus demand
• Review multi-level forecast accuracy and identify gaps & causes to initiate required action plans for mitigation
• Ensuring adherence to target CVFOT, Delivery OTIF, DOI FG, Inward OTIF and warehouse utilization
• SLOB analysis and liquidation plan in align with Finance, S&M and category owners

New Product Launches:

• Partnering with Sales & Marketing to ensure timely phase-in & phase-out with minimal write-off risks
• Track product life cycle of new SKUs to align sourcing and inventory levels across different stock points
• Organizing quarterly SKU rationalizing exercise to ensure smooth transition and minimal RM/PM/FG write-offs

Supply Planning and Production Scheduling

• Review and improve inventory aging, availability index, DOI, SLOB SKUs, OTIF, CCFOT and CVFOT KPIs
• Predict stock shortages or out of stock situations and accordingly implement replenishment plans
• Maintaining planning drivers as safety level, EPQ, MPQ, transit times, process capacity, shipping constraints
• Troubleshoot production issues by optimizing Master Production Schedule at manufacturing sites
• Simulate rough cut capacity planning for 3 months rolling forecast for make/buy & contingency decision making

Material Requirement Planning

• Responsible for procurement of 900+ raw & packaging material and maintaining target RM/PM DOI
• Sharing 6- & 12-months rolling forecast of RM/PM with suppliers and ensuring capability to fulfill the requirement
• Generating MRP on weekly/monthly/quarterly basis to trigger purchase orders and rescheduling ordered shipments 
• Review arrival schedule of inward shipments and develop mitigation plan in case of any risk and delays

Key Performance Indicators 

• OTIF
• PPC
• DOIs FG/RM/PM
• SLOBs / Moving & Non-moving
• Freshness
• Stock availability Index