Manager/Senior Manager - Supply Chain Management - Paint Industry

Manager/Sr Manager SCM_Paint Company_Mumbai

Job Description : Demand and Supply Planning

Key Responsibilities :

- Review historical sales trend, sales drivers for forecasting & preparing for demand requirements in a dynamic market condition and evaluate forecast accuracy

- Prepare, review and amend sales plan (demand plan) at Hub SKU level

- Prepare Supply Plans (production plan for in-house and purchase plan for outsourced SKUs) every month with weekly priorities

- Align the supply plans with the sales plan and address demand pattern changes through review and systematic analysis

- Coordinating with sales and marketing team for better understanding of market demand

- Quarterly review for the SKU rationalization and categorization of SKUs (ABC system)

- Clear understanding of the bottlenecks at production, constant interaction with Plant to have visibility of RM and PM coverage

- Critically analyze and review demand patterns to generate insights thereby arriving at course corrections to make relevant changes and optimize the SCM processes

- Ownership of FG inventory and thereby align with the distribution planning team for balancing of inventories at Plant and Hubs

- Manage, coordinate and monitor the production and flow of outsourced products from vendor to Plant | Hubs

- Ownership of Material Master and its maintenance in SAP. Initiate SKU code creation for FG and align with all internal functions to ensure master data accuracy

- Participate and contribute in cross functional projects and represent SCM

- MIS - preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual MIS and Budgets

Key Interfaces :

- Sales ; Sales Head and Regional Sales Managers

- Marketing ; Category Heads and Product Managers

- Operation team ,;Plant Head and Production Team

- Packaging Material Planner

- Distribution Planner

- Vendor , outsourced products

Key Skills :

- Good Communication skills

- High Analytical skills

- Working with extra-large set of data

- Advanced MS office

- Assertiveness and ability to convince

- Ability to adapt in a high growth business environment