Supply & Co-Packing Planner at BIC

Job Description

Inventory and SLOBS

• Responsible for overseeing Inventory holdings along the region and participating in short- and medium-term inventory planning.
• Responsible for local inventory levels; balance between intended service level and optimal inventory holdings.
• Keeping track of Overstock and Slow-Moving items and Working with Sales and Marketing teams to propose actions to deplete them.
• Continuously evaluate inventory policy in terms of safety stock and average coverage days and make necessary improvements based on business updates.
• Defining local Inventory policies, with a focus on improving cash position by efficiently managing the inventory.
• Measuring Slow Movers and Overstock and Inventory Holdings, absolute value, and as % of a year’s coverage

Co-packing

• Preparing co-packing and distribution plan for replenishing items
• Ensuring packaging materials used in co-packing is available
• Planning for labor to be used in co-packing
• Co-ordinating with warehousing to ensure items to be co-packed are issued on time
• Monitoring to ensure all the items issued for co-packed are done in full
• Ensure 100% availability of co-packed items to the customers

Supply planning

• Responsible for analyzing business needs in terms of products and ensuring their availability.
• Driving Supply Planning activities to meet customer expectations in terms of Service Level while ensuring optimal stock holdings.
• Participating in monthly meetings with factory planners to review future forecasts and supply constraints.
• Participating in the local S&OP process.
• Defining replenishment process and methods (Re-Order level, minimum and maximum stock levels
• Ensuring intercompany orders for local warehouse replenishment are placed and firmed up and following up with factory planners until the order is shipped.
• Ensuring the best possible container optimization on inbound orders, to keep Freight-In costs as low as possible.
• Maintaining updated master data records of all items.
• Working closely with Marketing teams to ensure on-time availability of new products.
• Supporting and ensuring timely availability of promotional items
• Measuring Intercompany Orders accuracy, Fill Rate Service Level, in value and volume
• Purchase forecast preparation and sharing with factory team

Risk management

• Ensuring potential supply issues are identified and working with key stakeholders for resolution
• Responsible for anticipating, communicating, and bringing solutions for product shortages in local factory.
• Measuring Supply risk to ensure full supply of required demand to meet all the customer orders
• Analyzing the volumes requested in the Purchase forecast versus the volume produced/maximum capacity and push for more volumes in case of variance

Qualifications

R- Required, D- Desired

Knowledge and Competences

• R       Knowledge of inventory planning systems (e.g., JDE)
• R       Knowledge of basic inventory planning parameters such as Lead Time, Safety Stock, average coverage days, and inventory turnover.
• R       Understands lead times from different sources and their impact on the supply schedule.
• R       Understands the product lifecycle and its supply impact.
• R       Advanced excel knowledge
• R       Develops best sourcing strategies and risk management strategies.
• D       Shows knowledge of Project Management: understands the methodology for planning, organizing, and managing resources to achieve a project goal.
• D       Manages risks; counts with alternative plans for the strategic activities of the department.
• D       Is creative; challenge the status quo.
• D       Technical savvy

Leadership and Personal Skills

• R       Embodies all the BIC Values & Behaviors: Simplicity, Ethics, Responsibility, Teamwork, and Ingenuity.
• R       Has effective communication skills, both at the operational level and at the managerial level.
• R       Strong team player and can empower the team to grow and be responsible for their own work.
• R       Process-oriented, solution-driven, and a continuous improvement mindset. Be able to perform in a Lean organization.
• R       Strong organization and time management skills. Efficient and can prioritize workload.
• R       Demonstrates ability to make accurate and timely decisions. 
• R       Is customer oriented. Plans stock arrivals to respect the agreed customer service level.
• R       Process Oriented. Ability to continuously improve a supply chain and manage complex customer needs.
• R       Has the advanced capacity to solve problems, analyze data, and recall and apply information.
• R       Strong analytical and numerical skills.
• D       Engages in career development by identifying occupational interests, strengths, options, and opportunities. make insightful career planning decisions based on integration and feedback; seek out additional training to pursue career goals.
• D       Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment, across disciplines, and throughout different levels of the organization.