Supply Chain Manager
Hunter Foods
Total years of experience :14 years, 7 Months
Being a Supply chain Manager over see Demand Planning, Procurement. Capacity planning, Production Planning & Logistics.
Demand Planning role involves, Implementation of Demand Planning process in Hunter foods. It involves consensus and alignment with Annual operating plan.
Procurement responsibility includes Inventory management of Raw materials, rate negotiation, Vendor development.
Procurement includes procuring from different countries based on the crop seasons.
Capacity planning and Production planning includes detailed scheduling along with Material requirement plan (MRP) which assist Sales, Logistics, Stores and Procurement to come up with respective plans.
Logistics responsibility include rate negotiation, route optimization and negotiation with external warehousing for storage of some of the products requiring special storage conditions.
of analytical skills, marketing, and sales data to effectively estimate future product demands
•Planning Inventory flow by the process of Demand and Supply Balancing - Demand Allocation & Constraining
•Work with Sales, Marketing and Business Development teams to get their inputs on Market Intelligence (Customer knowledge, Market Growth, Market Share), New Product Introductions and Business strategy on 3, 18 months of forecast horizon, conduct a challenge process, reflect the above inputs into the forecast and develop consensus with all stakeholders on the unconstrained forecast
•Work with Scheduling, sales and other stake holders to constrain the forecast and publish it.
•Highlight the gaps between the demand plan and the business strategy.
•Measure, analyze and report the KPIs on forecast accuracy for the sub-region (WAPE / MAPE, FC BIAS)
•Work with sales and other relevant teams to improve the forecast accuracy for the identified areas
•Continuously and creatively look for opportunities to improve the Demand Forecasting and Planning process.
•Drive strategic decisions based on financial analytics
•Lead S&OP & Demand Planning process to drive the strategic decisions into reality
functioning of Demand, Production and distribution planning for the entire product line to ensure lower forecast error and optimum inventory level to meet customer service target.
•Development & implementations of base demand using Statistical Modeling.
•Develop regional level demand for individual products aggregating to a national level forecast.
•Lead Consensus meetings with sales, marketing & business teams to arrive at one agreed number
•Participate in S&OP meetings to provide necessary insights from Demand side.
•Devising Production strategies considering operational and business challenges
•Ensuring meeting service goals
•Manage distribution to minimize transportation cost
•Deliver Long Range Forecasting (24 month) for individual item for financial & operational viability.
•Manage factors affecting cost per case.
Achievements:
•Implementation of Demand Planning & S&OP process.
•Reduced short lead orders by 80%.
•KPI: Achieved forecast accuracy of 75%.
as per monthly Production Plan.
•Prepare the weekly production plan from monthly production plan.
•Monitoring the Depot Stock level of Product & decide the production schedule.
•Inventory control as per company policy.
•100% on-time delivery as per Production Plan.
•Coordinate with Purchase, Technical, Production, Stores, Dispatch for the timely delivery of the Product.