Demand Planning Manager
Weatherford - United Arab Emirates
Total years of experience :18 years, 0 Months
> Supervises, coordinates and designates duties for planning personnel.
> Provides master production schedule to ensure balance loading of all departments and to meet monthly production target.
> Responsible for day-to-day upkeep of ERP/MRP system.
> Establish and manage KPIs to ensure 95% on-time delivery for all Product Lines
• Supervises and coaches Project Managers and Expeditors of Supply Chain Department.
• Effectively manage Project Management team activities related to planning/work assignment in order management.
• Manage the process of ensuring on-time deliveries for all the orders in stock and project business across all GERAB locations across the globe including GCC, Far East, US, Europe, India.
• Reviews Project Milestones with Project Manager thus resolving escalations and delivery discrepancy if any.
• Effectively establish and implement internal policies and procedures for the department. It includes creation of Service Level Agreement between Business Units and stakeholders such as Procurement, Inventory, Logistics, Sales, Finance.
• Manage customer complaints for successful resolution
• Established a scheduled project review with Business Unit Managers in liaison with Procurement, Commercial, and Logistics for progressive project update.
• Stimulate subordinates and contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of department systems and processes taking into account international best practice’, cost reduction, and productivity improvement.
• SPECIAL PROJECT: Capacity Planning module design and implementation. It is a dot net based program created in-house to automate manual order planning and execution. Spearheaded the framework, logic formation, program testing, user training, and project launch.
pioneer team, we established the overall process of Planning and Scheduling department. We have put up work process manual and work standardization documents. The team managed to adapt the “best practices” in other Manufacturing plant.
•Efficiently overlooks Production line capacity by allocating proper manpower on each cell with designed work order schedule. On a daily basis, prepares work order instructions to be followed per work shift. However, immediate response and action is required in case there are unforeseen events like machine breakdown so as not to disrupt the overall daily output target.
•Formulated an enhanced Buying process as I was tapped to lead procuring major machined components as required in the Manufacturing Plant. This are 316L and 13 chrome materials which comprises 70% of the total material requirement hence needed proper streamlining on supply and demand.
•Achieved 90% (from 60%) on-time availability of outsourced materials. As the aim was to have a continuous supply of materials so Production Schedule is not disrupted, proper planning is required. Critical deliberation on when Purchase Order is to be raised to avoid over supply as well. It is achieved by successfully deploying a supplier representative in the Plant for ease of communication and effective delivery negotiations.
•Supply versus Demand planning accuracy
•Catered to productivity improvement in Process cell by rejection rate reduction with use of Lean Six Sigma concepts.
Production Line Engineer, Industrial Engineer
• Started my young career as Production Line Engineer, overlooking 120 production line operators on a daily basis.
• Troubleshoot the line for any quality issue with regard to process and material.
• Generate Production schedule plan and activities based on requirements
• Identify problems relating to product, process and quality system to prevent recurrence
• Later on transferred to Industrial Engineering Section as Senior Industrial Engineer.
• Implement and establish Productivity improvement (cost reduction, inventory control)through time and motion studies, capability, planning, calculations, Kaizen, etc
• Over all in charge for manpower allocation, distribution planning and coordinator for over-all productivity improvement in Production Division.
• After a year, became Assistant Supervisor that leads, directs, and successfully mentored Junior and Senior Industrial Engineers.
• Leader of the design concept team of NCF multi-million projects e.g. new building construction, building and room renovation, and floor plan re-layout.
• Negotiates with contractor and supplier with regards to materials and cost of every project.
• Lean Manufacturing associate of Production department.
courses: PAMANTASAN NG LUNGSOD NG MAYNILA Intramuros Manila, Philippines Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing Engineering