Demand And Supply Planner
Reckitt Benckiser Arabia
Total years of experience :15 years, 2 Months
• Conceptualizing, demand planning, executing production plans to ensure that supply is aligned with all functions to meet business short and long-term planning and budget objectives to drive complete Pharma brands.
• Leading Demand review meeting and S&OP in collaboration with other functions, like Marketing, Sales, and Finance in order to develop a final agreed demand and supply plan.
• Responsible for the planning of New product launches, changes in sources, registration timelines etc. with Regulatory, Commercial, Marketing and Plants. Handling demand and Supply planning, which involves order management and planning embellishment activity for promo SKU’s.
• Integrated Business Planning: Implementation of the IBP Process. Leading local Integrated Business Planning process to align marketing needs, sales demand, planning parameters and customer stock status.
• Managing production through factories within the region (UAE and Bahrain), Europe, Far East and subcontinent.
• Managed and Coordinated 3PL service providers in UAE and Bahrain along with other 3 warehouses operations in UAE and Oman, which includes complete Inbound/Outbound operations, monthly stock recon and half yearly and yearly physical stock check.
• Expertise on SAP APO, Planning book and JDE application.
• Lead Logistics and distributor initiatives implement industry best practices.
• Sharing Monthly Sales and Stock Report, Expiry Exposure and Non-Performing Inventory (NPI) with Sales team and global management.
• Driving Customer Service planning exercise by presenting accurate and optimum physical availability of stocks in stocking centers.
• Production Planning with respect to client’s requirement.
• Handling Imports purchasing with 35 suppliers all over. To Procure Best Quality of Material economically (Lowest Cost) within stipulated Delivery Period.
• To maintain uninterrupted flow of raw material and packing materials for production.
• Created a process to approve a Supplier based on their Quality of Service, reliability and Cost.
• Developed a good level of relation with the supplier, which resulted in procuring materials in short notice.
• Experience in contract formation and termination among Suppliers.
• Materials Management like, Maintenance of Finished Goods, Raw Materials, packaging goods and Semi Finished Goods.
• Managing complete Warehouse management activities, where I have implemented some Good practices in Warehousing and Materials Management.
• Knowledge about Factory Operations for Chemical products.
• 3.9 years of experience in Analysis, Design, Development, Testing and Deployment using PL/SQL and UNIX and SharePoint.
• Cost saving activity, using my practical and proactive approach, I developed major cost saving activity for the organization.
• Time Saving activity, using my expertise in MS EXCEL and analytical skill, I automated certain manual work in our project and saved lots of manual work and time for our team.
• Change management, with my people management skill, I was able to carry out CHANGE in our team which was very much needed.
• I have 4 years of experience in SQL and large database Management.
• Out of Box thinking, I developed MOSS knowledge and used my knowledge and developed portal for my team and various other teams.
• I deliver top quality work with tight deadlines consistently to all types of top management.
• Since I had a good relationship with various department people and other unit people, I was the core member of the operation's team that conducts various activities in my organization.
• Multitasking skill, I should reiterate that all the above task were the extra initiative that I undertook apart from my regular project work.