Site Planning Lead - BBG at Unilever

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

Production Scheduling

• Schedule the factory resources optimally in line with the Master Production Schedule (MPS) provided by the L2 Planning Hub for week 0 to 1 horizon
• Review previous week’s performance against schedule and agree production orders to be carried over
• Align with factories to confirm inputs to line scheduling (eg. factory calendar, labour)
• Create the production schedules in line with the MPS
• Ensure that materials are available before presenting the production schedules to the factory for sign off
• Ensure that production schedules are in line with warehouse capacity constraints
• Align with the factory operations teams, challenge and adjust schedules as necessary and publish
• Feed back to the L2 Planning Hub when adjustments are needed to improve the MPS in future
• Incorporate in week adjustments as necessary - Innovations, Breakdowns, Unplanned Maintenance
• Monitor and drive conformance of Operations to the production schedule
• Act as point of contact between the factory and the L2 Hub i.e. communicate factory information needed by the L2 Hub to create an executable MPS
• Monitor and manage volume of product left from change overs and rework activities
• Propose adjustments to the MPS to E2E Planner to resolve constraints
• Manage unexpected plan shutdowns or extraordinary events and communicate at the earliest opportunity to the L2 Hub
• Convert Planned Orders to Process Orders
• Flag any risks to delivering export specific volume to the Market Collaboration Planner
• Flag any risks to delivering local and export (shared SKU) volume to the Market Collaboration Planner
• Flag any short-term risks to the E2E Planner weekly before weekly Ops meeting
• Work with the operations team to generate run sequences per line to minimise downtime and maximise output
• Review previous week’s performance and root cause, adjust plans after checking carry overs.

Output Reliability (OR):

• Review previous week’s factory performance against plan (Latest Plan OR) and input into the weekly OR loss tree with sourcing unit input and consensus (owned by Ops).
• Report on losses and plans to improve in weekly Ops meetings and S&OP Supply meeting, when required.

Transition Management:

• Execute material write offs at product launches, re-launches, SKU rationalisation, VIP projects, working closely with the E2E planner to ensure that all plans are optimised and run-out schedules are accurately maintained
• Incorporate transition activities into the daily schedule e.g. schedule production trials
• Provide input into MOC for FG

Working Capital Management

• Execute working capital reduction plan at site for Finished Goods through run strategy, EBQ optimization etc.
• Flag any reduction opportunities with the Market Collaboration Planner.
• Execute actions proposed by the Inventory Specialist and End to End Planners on Slow and Obsolete (SLOB) finished goods and ensure that provisions are raised timeously
• Data Maintenance
• Provide feedback to Parameter Optimisation Specialist to ensure run strategy is workable
• Provide and validate input data to the Inventory Specialist for generation of the Inventory Planning Model and agree output prior to implementation
• Provide and validate other planning master data required by the L2 Hub
• Ensure proper maintenance of relevant data in the system as defined by the Master Data templates
• Ensure accuracy of dynamic factory master data (e.g. changeover times)
• Perform regular scheduling data health checks
• Reporting
• Work closely with supply planning team in updating customer service reports and providing information on recovery.
• Capture OR Losses with sourcing unit stakeholders on a weekly basis (Latest Plan OR) and communicate to stakeholders.
• Provide data for CCFOT loss analysis to the E2E Planner (losses pertaining to OR).
• Support S&OP Supply Meeting preparation (and attendance), when required.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• Tertiary degree with Supply Chain and/ or Business Management is preferred.
• Engineering degree will also be considered, with experience in the general supply chain being an advantage
• Further studies in supply chain, including a APICS/SAPICS qualification, would be beneficial
• 1-3 Years exposure to broad based Supply Chain management.
• A good understanding of, and the use of SAP is essential
• Planning and functional business process knowledge
• Commercial Acumen
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence stakeholders to achieve results
• Strong change, service and agile mindset
• Strong accountability and responsibility      
• Understand ‘Make’ and ‘Source’ processes
• Fully operational in ‘Plan’ processes
• Experience in managing external parties.
• Experience working and interacting with all levels in a business.
• Strong planning knowledge
• SAP and Kinaxis knowledge
• End to end supply chain knowledge