Supply Planner at The Heineken Company

Purpose of the job

The Supply Planner’s primary role is to generate a feasible and cost-effective master supply plan that meets the consensus demand, customer orders and inventory requirements. This master plan results in a tactical weekly production, procurement, and distribution plan. The supply planner supports the all the supply side S&OP processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for developing a master supply plan to be used within the end-to-end supply planning process and make changes to the plan when required.
• Accountable for effective network master planning within the supply planning function.
• Identify variations from the published master plan and develop recovery plans.
• Communicate scheduled delays and changes with the relevant functional departments.
• Make near-term, risk-based sourcing decisions with relevant functional departments to ensure day-to-day operations.
• Ensure all master planning metrics are met. Identify action items, align resources to address action items and follow up on all production planning related issues.
• Measure, analyze and report key process metrics, and monitor adherence to key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Develop, monitor, and communicate reports on inventory and process execution to business unit and supply chain.
• Initiate and lead the development of short and long-term supply plans to balance the demand forecast and customer orders with cost, efficiency, and capacity constraints.
• Ensure that all potential risk to factory output (because of constraints within the supply chain) are highlighted and dealt with effectively.
• Analyze plans by conducting “what if” scenarios.
•  Highlight and identify resource constraints and recommend processes to eliminate resource constraints.
• Investigate & recommending batch size changes, re-routing of products and outsourcing and purchasing of additional materials.
• Highlight critical material shortages.
• Compare plans to budgets.
• Manage stock out analysis.
• Assess and report on packaging requirements.
• Compare actual vs forecasted volumes.
• Ensure that products which are at risk are identified.
• Co-ordinate with Deployment and report on progress.
• Manage and maintain planning reports in support of the S&OP process.
• Ensure that new products are added to the correct schedule areas.
• Follow Heineken Beverages policies and procedures and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

Job Requirements

Education

• B.Sc. in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Inventory Management, Mathematics or B.Eng. (Industrial Engineering) or related Supply Chain National Diploma (e.g.: SAPICS CPIM)

Experience

• 5 years or more operational experience in supply chain, inventory management, replenishment, and production planning.
• 5 years of experience working in the CPG beverage industry.
• Experience of hands-on information gathering, quantitative and qualitative data analysis, and reporting.
• Substantial Excel knowledge and ERP systems experience.
• End-to-end supply chain knowledge and understanding the internal and external interrelationships.
• Proficient in Microsoft excel.
• Strong analytical and reporting skills
• Strong knowledge of supply planning within CPG industry
• Expert skills in supply planning methods incorporated with, finance, manufacturing, and supply chain.
• Good communication and team working skills.
• Detail and accuracy oriented
• Strong interpersonal skills to effectively interact with all teams, areas and levels of business impacting the supply planning process.
• Strong decision making, communication and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and diverse business environment.
• Nice to have: Experience in Blue Yonder Supply Chain software