Supply & Demand Planning Manager
BASF
Total years of experience :12 years, 11 Months
1.Supply Planning:
• Inventory management in the plant for around 200 items with a yearly value of 100 Million Euro.
• Responsible for developing the 18-month active Supply Network Plan that balances constrained demand with supply.
• Responsible for maintaining sufficient inventory of raw materials to fulfill production needs.
• Reviews product ranges and recommends changes in product category/class when appropriate.
• Ensures that Master Data is accurate and up-to-date in the relevant planning system.
2.Process Advisor for S&OP:
Ensure area execution of S&OP Process Standards and address supply issues at the appropriate pre-S&OP and S&OP.Senior Supply Chain representative at regional pre-S&OP responsible for identifying, resolving or escalating Supply Network issues.
3.Facilitate Maintenance of Service Level Agreements:
• Facilitates periodic review of Service Level Agreements at pre-S&OP with endorsement at S&OP to balance service levels and cost to serve. Annually reviews logistics rules for materials movements and updates system. Manage Planning Strategies and Business Rules for Supply Chain.
4.S&OP Decision Support:
• Provide decision support to Regional S&OP decision makers along with Regional Supply Chain on the impact to supply of potential decision alternatives. Develop alternative solutions to supply constraints.
5.Manage Supply Chain Performance Measures:
• Understands forecast accuracy & basis; OTIF results, root cause analysis & corrective action plan
6.Demand Planning:
1.Drive the cross-functional, collaborative demand forecasting process for all products in a distributive area
• Ensure the Sales Managers communicate information affecting the forecast prior to generation of the initial forecast (use existing reports where applicable and gather necessary information regarding new/lost business, events, promotions, planned supply disruptions, etc.); manage initial inputs and incorporate into forecast as appropriate.
• Conduct demand analysis to determine high error/high volume customers and terminals; generate statistically-valid forecast; apply market knowledge (event profiles, market trends, seasonality, etc.) to determine overrides necessary within the statistical forecast.
• Manage the Demand review Meeting process of the forecast to ensure Sales applies market intelligence and accepts accountability for forecast numbers; challenge overrides with the Sales to ensure sound logic is applied when changing unconstrained forecast; effectively negotiate with all parties involved to ensure agreement of one consensus forecast number is achieved prior to sending to S&OP for optimization.
• Ensure pricing strategy is adequately incorporated into the forecast by collaborating with the pricing organization through regular meetings/calls.
• Manage and cleanse historical data: Communicate with all concerned parties to identify new terminals, non-availability of existing products, introduction of seasonal product, and/or discontinuation of product; identify outliers in sales history and apply overrides or event profiles to allow for increased accuracy of future forecast numbers.
2.Create weekly and event-based refreshes to the forecast as appropriate
• Determine and apply criteria for triggering a forecast refresh (execute demand forecasting process for locations/products out of tolerance).
• Liaison between Sales and Scheduling organizations to facilitate alignment between Schedulers and Sales organization before Schedulers make overrides to the forecast.
3.Lead the Demand Forecasting learning lookback process with the Sales organization and provide information in support of the S&OP lookback process
• Review forecast performance metrics in Supply Chain Analytics tool and analyze results and trends.
- Follow all the logistics activities with the customs clearance service providers minimizing the operation costs and maintaining the performance level.
- Guaranteeing the availability of raw materials while minimizing its impact on cash flow and costs
- Developing the yearly global raw material master plan which is the base for the contracts’ negotiations with suppliers. Working along with Production Planning and R&D teams for the introduction and ramp up phases of new products.
- Inventory management in the plant for more than 200 items with a monthly value of 100.000 Million Euro.
- Following up of performance reports (overstock and forecast accuracy) and creation of new KPIs to optimize inventory levels according to financial working capital targets. Elaboration of the monthly Inbound Logistics results' presentation for the Logistics and top management.
- Analysis of the effect of production plans' changes in inventories, with the purpose of carrying actions to maintain stocks within budget and high service levels. Proactively communicate and coordinate the resolution of potential issues, which can affect materials availability, with the different stakeholders and Headquarter.
- Define the Raw Materials Plan (Yearly Management Plan and Monthly rolling reviews) for Raw materials and Tyres accessories with the central team.
- Evaluation of raw material forecasts’ accuracy.
- Supporting raw material purchasing team in stock planning and allocation processes.
- Assessing MRP system usage, and its accuracy in the ordering process.
- Weekly monitoring and analysis of stock levels, to alert possible material shortages.
- Development of monthly forecasts. Projection of the stock trend for all material families.
- Prepare production schedules for sanitary ware products.
- Monitor production attainments on weekly basis.
- Expedite UK elite customers SKU's to maintain high service level.
- Manage all the related Logistics activities.
- Develop an optimization model for the production line.
- Achieve around 40% increase in daily production.