Deputy Manager (Planning)
Meghna Group of Industries
Total years of experience :13 years, 10 Months
1. Drive the major projects for business excellence like Customer Classification, Optimizing Distribution Cost, and Analyzing Production Line Capacity etc.
2. Co-ordinate the implementation of recommended Business Excellence best practices and their sustained adherence throughout the organization. May entail working against resistance to change.
3. Trigger the launch of and monitor projects/ initiatives necessary for complying to the Business Excellence recommendations.
4. Work with and take a lead role in the industry and organizations for the implementation of supply chain system throughout the organs.
5. Visit factories, outsource branches, depots to gauge impact of new ways of working. Formulate and standardize practices across the functions.
6. Arbitrate/ identify integration issues within Supply Chain and recommend ways for seamless and cohesive operations.
7. Start working with Demand Generating and Supply Ensuring Team for establishing a strong partnership and support in the key focus area of Key Accounts. Establish an advantageous rapport by working with their Supply Chains.
8. Manage, lead and co-ordinate Supply Chain integration aspects with all other Streams, Business Excellence and senior stakeholders. If necessary, escalate such issues with the Management for resolution.
9. Decide feedback mechanism to ensure compliance to the Key Decision documents and the approved Business Rules.
10. Determine Distributor and Depot-wise Distribution Requirement Planning (DRP) to meet sales forecast and optimize distribution cost, lead time, and safety stock and customer service level.
11. Prepare and ensure optimum production plan for eighteen months by taking into consideration product demand, machine capacity, minimum batch quantity, manpower, economic, minimum order quantity, and capacity utilization etc.
12. Execute eighteen months MRP (Material Requirement Planning).
13. Calculate safety stock for each manufacturing plant for next 18 months considering different parameters and execute supply network plan accordingly.
14. Maintaining slow, Non& block stock as per stock norms at factory level.
15. Liaise with internal stake holders and monitor market demand change closely to avoid out of stocks and over stocks.
16. Monitor customer service levels from factory to Depots and Distributors.
17. Prepare production budget.
18. Drive MPS related different projects for increasing the supply chain efficiency.
19. Continuous strive towards operational excellence.
20. Ensuring FG and RM/PM stock covers as per inventory strategy thereby increasing Fresh-Ness of products to get competitive edge.
21. Identify gaps in demand and supply for medium and long term plans and suggest capacity expansions to bridge this gap. Ensuring information flow to Management committee to support decision making process for capacity enhancement and problem resolution.
22. Optimizing Customer Service Level in order to increase Organic Growth of business by improving demand plan accuracy, weekly exceptions in demand and supply and robust operational plan.
23. Analysis of Production Forecast Variance at M, M-1, M-2, & M-3.
24. Monitoring MSA (Master Schedule Attainment), DPF (Dispatch Performance), and DPA (Demand Plan Accuracy) for reliable supply strategy.
25. Projects to increase in the supply chain efficiency and reduce waste in order to improve bottom line of business.
26. Key enabler for new product launches basis agreed timelines and launch strategy.
27. Implement & follow-up of FEFO (First Expiry First Out) method to ensure Inventory Freshness.
28. Ensure optimum production plan in line with sales and stock cover inline with capacity utilization.
29. Work closely with factory management to ensure factory SCM operations and KPIs in line with Globe best practices
30. Facilitate Improvement of Freshness of all products on invoicing in order to get competitive edge in Business
Key achievements
Develop overall production capacity calculation to align the forecasted market demand in order to meet the market requirements. This capacity calculation work improves the production capacity by considering different factors like actual break time, breakdown of machines, and availability of manpower.
Develop the production tracker to track the daily production output and calculate the Labor Overhead (LOH) cost which helps the production department in tracking their improvements in the production of products and the finance department in tracking daily LOH cost which they need to report globally per week.
Introduce daily supply tracker to track the actual supply of the products in the market. This tracker also verified per month by ensuring cross check with the commercial departments product receiving tracker.
Accountability and responsibilities
Planning & Supply Activities:
Consistently communicate with the demand manager to get the yearly demand and follow up the changes in the demand based on the market condition.
Develop production plan to meet the market demand.
Consistently communicate with the production dept. QA dept., Store dept., & Finished Goods Warehouse personnel.
Keep track with the actual production output and make a comparison with the budgeted volume for the respective month / year.
Track the actual production output on daily basis.
Provide documents to the entire production department in order to ensure smooth operations.
Keep track of the documents to avoid any uncertain situations while providing documents as per the production program.
Consistently report ZAP (Zero Access Promotion) and GEMBA to the line supervisor.
Prepare weekly tentative product release status.
Follow up the daily product releasing status and take necessary actions to enhance this activity (if necessary)
Provide tentative product releasing status to the commercial department based on which they allocate the transport.
Ensure on-time transfer of the products to the FGWH.
Develop and update the product supply tracker against the monthly demand on a regular basis.
Prepare and submit Conformance to Plan (CTP) on weekly basis.
Update the production make frequency status on monthly basis.
Develop data analytical presentation as & when required.
Procurement Activities:
Prepare Comparative Statement against each requisition submitted by different departments of the organization.
Keep the purchase requisition (PR) track record.
Negotiate the price of the products as & when required.
Prepare Purchase Order (P.O) as per the requisition submitted by each department.
Communicate with the local supplier to supply the products as per the purchase order to the respective department.
Key Achievements
Develop small suppliers of partex boards in order to expedite and smooth the export activities.
Motivate base oil buyers to purchase large quantity of base oil on a regular basis at the fixed prices set by the organization. This improves the cash flow in the organization consistently in the year 2012-2014.
Accountabilities & Responsibilities
Prepare & check all export related documents (Proforma Invoice, Commercial Invoice, Packing List, EXP form, Bill of Exchange, Delivery Certificate, LCA, & Certificate of Origin- issued by beneficiary & The Chamber of Commerce and Industry)
Properly check L/C and ask for amendment if necessary.
Maintain communication with the Bank.
Prepare Job order and place to factory.
Follow up production with factory.
Maintain Communication with C&F agent, Buyers, Suppliers, and Shipping agent.
Handover of documents to C&F agent, & Shipping agent as & when required.
Follow up shipment with C&F agents, & shipping agents.
Check B/L and collect from shipping lines.
Co-ordinate with other departments to justify material requisitions.
Properly manage the entire procurement formalities related with the export consignment.
Maintain communication with buyers.
Plan & manage the distribution of products.
Communicate with the transporter and follow up the delivery process.
Visit buyer’s factory as & when required.
Provide related documents to buyers for necessary endorsement.
Data Entry in the ERP (LENISYS) system.
Assist in changes of systems for improved reporting, functionality and visibility.
Act as Logistics representative for base oil receiving.
Keep the updated data of Base oil In-Bond and Ex-Bond during the year.
Act as an assistant at the time of flag registration/survey of MT OMERA QUEEN
Issue shipping certificates (Safety Equipment, Safety Radio, Continuous Synopsis Record, and Maritime Labor Statement of Compliance) from the Mercantile Marine Department.
Process all the shipping documents.
Key Achievements
Develop a details report on Lubricants Market in Bangladesh which also covers actual lubricants consumption in the vehicle. This work helps the organization in making different strategic decisions.
Accountabilities & Responsibilities
Prepared a report on Lubricating oil market in Bangladesh based on Raw Data collection.
Make Data entry in the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system on daily basis.
Check all types of documents-(L/C, Commercial Invoice, Packing list, B/L, Country of origin)
Handle all commercial activity
Internship done at MJL Bangladesh Limited as a paid employee.
Internship done at Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) on Leather Sector as unpaid internee. Lab trainer: Worked as a Lab Trainer at the university to develop the Computing Skills of unskilled students to a reasonable level. Research work: Work as a data processing coordinator for a study on corruption with a sample size of 1500 Traveled: Study tour India (4 provinces
