Demand Planning Lead
National Food Industries Company
Total years of experience :12 years, 11 Months
Assessing existing supply chains to meet business or functional strategies by co-ordinating with cross-functional research activities
Acquiring current and precise information for demand forecast by functioning with Sales, Marketing and Finance departments
Introducing cost saving techniques and modifications to achieve substantial reduction in expenditures and work within the budget
Establishing & utilizing various best methods (statistical model & software tools) in creating forecasts and respective inventory targets
Evolving and maintaining documentation & standard operating procedures for demand planning processes & systems
Assisting in the Supply Planning to develop the best inventory strategy to meet the company’s business growth
Delivering value added customer service by resolving customer issues & ensuring their satisfaction with the product and the service norms; providing information regarding the customer action plans to supply planning department
Demand Planning (Order Management), Logistics Planning & Inventory Management:
Supply chain process re-engineering.
Design & define the activity based process timelines.
Instrumental in setting up the Demand Planning cell & Customer Relationship Management Cell- a first of its kind in Alembic.
Manage demand at SKU/account level and ensure timely deliveries in line with product specific forecast from respective accounts
Provide “order confirmation” against all the orders i.e., best possible delivery schedule. Closely coordinate and communicate customer action plans with supply planning
Constant interaction with global customers to understand their priorities and enhance customer satisfaction level.
Monitoring & review actual deliverance against the confirmations made and desired delivery time line of shipments/orders.
Working out API requirements on rolling basis from demand forecast.
Handling new product launches across the globe.
Instrumental in making of monthly Production Plan (Manufacturing & Packing) in accordance with customer priorities and maximum resource utilization.
Analyzing and reporting backlog or missed demand, with focus on supply planning & fulfillment.
Responsible for preparation & execution of dispatch plan.
Measuring Supply Chain performance.
Production Planning
Formulating monthly and weekly production plan and material requirement plans in coordination with manufacturing team.
Organizing and conducting daily and weekly cross functional team review meetings to review deliveries and supply status against committed schedules.
Generating daily/monthly plant delivery performance reports
Preparing monthly supply planning performance reports.
Inventory Management and Control
Ensuring stringent raw material tracking and traceability.
Evaluating average and projected Inventory requirements.
Carrying out Monthly and Quarterly Inventory analysis in order to ensure inventory levels as per fixed inventory norms.
Generating reports and analysis of material availability, shortages and inventory.
Demand Planning
Responsible for preparing the Rolling Plan for Heumann Pharma GmbH Germany and Europe based on sales forecast data received from subsidiary/respective marketing teams.
Authorizing and loading the export production orders based on demand forecast in TPL system
Monitoring & review actual deliverance against the confirmations made and desired delivery time line of shipments/orders
Capacity Planning
Monthly demand consolidation for all the export market to load it on various formulation plants.
Preparing monthly Manufacturing plan for formulation products based on available capacity between various Formulation plants deciding the source plant and loading the requirement accordingly.
Dispatch Planning
Formulating the delivery plans ex India based on delivery dates received from Plants and communicating the delivery dates to respective country managers and implementing the changes as per requirements.
Billing the consignments and ensuring the dispatches from Warehouse as per monthly delivery plans.
Taking the advance flight booking through CHA as per delivery plan.
Communicating the daily /weekly dispatch schedule to warehouse.
Sending the advance shipment intimation to respective country warehouses.
New Products launches
Coordinating the new product launch schedule with R&D and production teams
Arranging the necessary inputs for new product launches such as raw materials packing materials, Technical documents TITD, MFC, BMR, and BPR.
Production and Dispatch Planning
Formulating, communicating the monthly production plan to contract manufacturing facilities.
Analyzing the sales forecast / Demand received from Marketing to formulate the quarterly production plan and raw material procurement plans.
Linking all the MIS reports of PPIC for improvising of daily monitoring and controlling for smooth execution of monthly delivery plan.
Preparing the export dispatch plan for contract manufacturing sites.
Coordinating with manufacturing sites for timely dispatches of export consignments.
CG PA OBTAINED IS 6.19/8. COMPLETED INTERNSHIP IN HYPER-CITY RETAIL INDIA LTD. FOR 2 MONTHS. WORKED ON PROJECTS LIKE WAREHOUSING IN RETAIL (ONE PRODUCT ONE PLACE, FIRST IN FIRST OUT FIFO). GRADE 'A' IN BUSINESS ENGLISH COMMUNICATION EXAM HELD BY UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (ESOL) IN VANTAGE (LEVEL 2).