Description

What makes this a great opportunity?

The mission of this role is to ensure smooth, cost-effective, and reliable supply chain and logistics operations by driving production planning, dispatch execution, inventory control, and cross-functional coordination. The role acts as a key operational link between commercial, plant, purchase, logistics, quality, and sales teams to align demand, production, materials, and dispatches through SAP/APO and IBP-driven planning. It is responsible for supporting S&OP and S&OE processes, managing risks and opportunities, resolving capacity or raw material constraints, and ensuring timely market supply, including innovation packs. The role also focuses on KPI delivery across supply chain and logistics, including OTIF, CFR, production adherence, vehicle utilization, costs, and inventory targets, while supporting consumer complaint management and continuous automation to improve efficiency.

Role Responsibilities

Production Planning & Execution

• Derive CY+1 Pickup plan from IBP DRP.
• Derive monthly production plan using APOSNP.
• Create and manage weekly production orders in SAP in alignment with IBP DRP and S&OE Output.
• Prepare daily dispatch plans in line with production schedules
• Liaise with Logistics for day-to-day dispatches.
• Innovations - VAP and LE pack supply to markets as per marketing requirements.

2. Cross-Functional Coordination

• Liaise with Commercial, plant, Purchase, Logistics, and Quality teams for seamless operations.
• Permits planning and identify gaps in demand vs previous submissions to take up with respective functions.
• Act as key interface for managing quality-related consumer complaints.
• Coordinate EVC collection from sales teams weekly.

3. Material & Capacity Management

• Monitor raw material availability against production requirement.
• Identify and resolve concerns related to capacity or raw material shortages.
• Manage monthly bulk tanks ordering and liaise for timely customs clearances.

4. Data & System Management

• Create and maintain master data in SAP and APO as required.
• Identify scope of automation in day to day working to reduce manual efforts.

5. KPI Monitoring & Reporting

• Maintain FG inventory in plants, depots and corporations in line with targets and monitor as per Business requirements.
• Prepare monthly & weekly KPI dashboards and presentations.
• Drive weekly S&OE processes and monthly SC&L updates to leadership.
• Drive daily operations meetings to share updates, risks and opportunities.
• Deliver key Supply Chain KPIs: Conversion cost, MOQ fulfilment, OTIF, CFR, production plan adherence.
• Deliver key Logistics KPIs: Vehicle utilization, detentions demurrages of Bulk tanks and local shipments.
• Analysis & recommendations - optimized vehicle utilization to optimize cost, efficiency.

6. Consumer Complaints

• Key interface between sales and Quality teams in managing Quality related complaints.

7. Risk & Opportunity Management

• Identify risks and opportunities, communication with stakeholders.

Qualifications

Qualifications & Experience

• Graduate/MBA with 6-7 years of experience

Role Specific Competencies

• Production- planning, scheduling.
• Excellent MS-office skills.
• Exposure to SAP is must.
• Exposure to APO/HANA is an advantage.
• Exposure of working in plant environment and open to taking up new challenges

Leadership Competencies

• Build self, team and partnerships
• Inspires engagement and performance
• Thinks and acts strategically, like an owner
• Delivering impactful results with integrity