About this role
What will you do
Responsible for supply and demand balances for specified solids products, plus back-up for specified others
Conduct Supply-Demand balancing process:
- Coordinate cross functional team in maintaining the global supply/demand balance on Asset Production Lines, grade/packaging combinations, and numerous supply points
- Perform Supply/Demand balancing tasks (APO SNP module)
- Collaborate with the Sales Demand Analyst/Planner and field Sales personnel to develop accurate demand forecasts
- Work with Product Management and Sales to analyze and evaluate requests for additional demand and changes on production assets
- Review feed and supply resource capacity
- Balance supply and demand plan capabilities
- Release balanced sales plan
- Agree and publish final sales plan to all regional stakeholders
- Maintain Supply/Demand balances
- Conduct monthly Supply/Demand S&OP review meeting (Supply Chain, Marketing, Sales, Manufacturing)
- Resolve supply issues including allocation product to markets served
- Lead Quick Response Teams (QRT) to assist in the proactive management supply, quality and logistical issues and to mitigate customer impacts
- Develop and facilitate the annual Corporate Plan for inventory targets, discretionary builds and supply/demand balances
- Ensure master data accuracy and maintenance
- Work with Manufacturing facilities to optimize production schedule
- Set priorities for production schedule development and changes
- Faciliate monthly Run Plan process: conduct analysis and prepare/present detailed communication package to align the cross functional organization on the S/D balance, commercial signals, and outlooks for production, forecast, sales and inventory
- Align manufacturing capability with sales demand while working to optimize inventory levels
- Assist prioritization of production in case of feed supply issues
- Participates to structural improve initiatives (cycle optimization, production wheel optimization, inventory target optimization etc)
- Set up production year plan for each production line on product family-level in agreement with Site SC and Manufacturing
Support Demand Management Process
- Point of contact for volume management specialists, replenisher team, and sales on availability issues
- Set supply indicators to support order inflow management by sales
- Approve over and non-forecasted orders
- Define APO allocation strategy and agree allocation levels on a monthly basis
- Monitor order inflow versus forecast; review anomalies with sales
- Define APO allocation strategy
- Ensure proactive communication with Business stakeholders in case of Supply Issues
- Coordinate with Logistics teams in case of impactful changes in Supply network
Facilitate Inventory Management processes:
- Act as lead for achieving inventory targets, including management of aged, non-prime and surplus inventories for given product family
- Set and review EIO/APO/IBP targets for all SKUs within scope
- Review and adjust system generated targets
- Adjust/refine calculation parameters to increase accuracy over time
- Coordinate annual inventory target review with Business Team during corporate plan
- Coordinate annual SKU rationalization exercise with Product Management, Sales and Site SC
Contribute to Supply Chain Improvement Initiatives
- Identify/lead/coordinate APO/IBP improvement efforts
- Contribute to Supply Chain optimization initiatives
- Participate in Demand and or Supply Planning related networks
- Participate in Business Segment Team meetings and initiatives as n