Job Purpose and Impact
We are looking for a detailed, proactive & strong analytical problem-solving Supply Planner to manage short to mid-term supply plans for Chocolate production. This role ensures product availability, efficient inventory levels, and manages supply chain reliability & cost management. He/she collaborates & works closely with product line, customer service operations, production, procurement, and warehouse logistics teams to ensure smooth
Key Accountabilities
- Develop and maintain supply plans based on demand forecasts and production capacity.
- Responsible for creating and maintaining the overall production schedule, ensuring quality and adherence to resource availability & capability optimization.
- Monitor execution of supply plan & track supply performance on production scheduling adherence, line utilizations to ensure supply chain reliability.
- Monitor inventory levels and adjust plans according to production lead-time and demand/supply requirements.
- Coordinate with production scheduler/material planner to ensure production capacity & materials availability to ensure execution of supply plan.
- Identify supply risks and propose mitigation actions.
- Validate & maintain planning data and parameters in ERP system to ensure data visibility & accuracy.
- Work closely with plant ops team to maximize/optimize plant utilization to improve supply reliably, production efficiency, lead-time and reduce changeovers, wastage & production costs.
- Help develop gap coverage plans during inventory shortages or quality crisis.
- Help create requirements plan and long-term supply plan for assigned products and locations as input for the integrated business planning cycle.
- Manage & resolve supply planning- related challenges arising from production disruption (eg. down-time, manpower constraints, quality issues), materials availability, and urgent requirements.
- Involve in new product launch, project charter commercialization (end-to-end) supply chain processes to ensure control adherence & timely execution to deliver & meet product launch.
- Participate in generating and executing cycle and safety stock plans with approved supply plan inputs.
- Prepare production supply/inventory related reports & key performance metrics monitoring for weekly S&OE and monthly Supply Review meeting for planning updates.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.
Preferred Qualifications- Degree in Supply Chain, Business, or related field.
- 5+ years' experience in supply or production planning, preferably in food commodity manufacturing industry.
- Strong analytical and communication skills
- Able to work in fast-paced environment
- Proficient in MS office especially Excel, macro, Power Bi & statistical forecasting knowledge for data visual and analysis.
- Familiar with ERP systems (AX Dynamics, SAP, Oracle, etc.)
- Willing to be based at Tuas
