Demand/Supply Planning - FMCG/Retail

Associate - Planning

Position: Associate Planning (Demand & Supply), Education & Stationery Products Business, ITC Limited

Reporting Into: Asst. Manager - Planning (1st Appraiser) & Head of Supply Chain (2nd Appraiser)

Location: ESPB Head Office, Chennai

About ESPB : ESPB was established in the year 2000. It started as a Greeting Card Business and has grown over the years in terms of turnover as well as product portfolio significantly. Greeting Cards business was discontinued and the organization got into Student & Executive Notebooks in the year 2002. Currently, the business is proud of having built strong brands such as Classmate and Paperkraft. Colour Crew is another brand in the Classmate umbrella under which ITC has launched the Art Stationery category.

Product Categories in which the business operates today are Notebooks, Pens, Pencils, Geometry Boxes, Maths Instruments, Erasers, Sharpeners, Rulers and Art Stationery (Pencil Colours, Sketch Pens, Crayons). The business clocked a topline of approx. 600 crores in 2011-12 and has aggressive growth plans going forward.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Plan shipments from hubs to WSPs or hubs to hubs based on the propagated customer demand

- Ensure inventory norms are adhered to at each node

- Plan for temporary warehouse space requirement in advance and minimize utilization of temporary warehouse

- Generate monthly production requirement at each hub location based on monthly forecast and annual plan

- Historical data correction to take care of market, product, trend and seasonality changes

- Generation of statistical forecast

- Uploading of HO estimates in the system, after disaggregation

- Calculate forecast metrics, accuracy, bias and fidelity on periodic basis

- Perform a sanity check on the uploaded forecast numbers to eliminate errors due to oversight

- Place orders for manual stock transfers till a planning tool is implemented. After that, run the tool to generate automatic orders

- Generate a daily report on the current day’s auto STRs

- Root cause analysis for any drop in STR Fill rate 

- Calculation of various KPIs like STR Fill rate, sub optimal distribution, etc

- Ensure that the master data in the system is correct

- Continuous analysis of factors which would make the supply chain sub optimal

- Periodic optimization of existing supply chain network on the basis of supply and demand

- Continuously review the statistical model used for various categories and make changes wherever necessary
 
- Monitor the sales and identify any shifts in market trend and seasonality

KEY SUCCESS FACTORS:

- STO Fill Rate (on Ideal Orders generated)

- Sub Optimal and Mal-distribution

- Warehouse space utilization

- Forecast Accuracy

- Forecast Bias

- Forecast Fidelity

INTERNAL LINKAGES:

- Sales Team, Operations team, Finance team.

Salary - 6.5 - 7.5 L p.a.

Experience Reqd - Experience in Demand and Supply Planning (2-6 yrs)

Preferred Industries - FMCG / Retail / m Commerce / Paints

Location - Chennai

Mandatory - Excellent communication skills, Analytical Ability, Ability to conceptualize

Gender - No bar

Age - 22 - 37

Contact - arushikakkar@gmail.com