Sr. Manager Demand Planning

Position: Cipla | Sr. Manager Demand Planning
JD

Accountability Cluster Major Activities / Tasks

I. Sub-Saharan Africa (8 countries) and North Africa (4 countries) Demand Planning and Order Fulfilment Team Lead

Candidate will be responsible for overseeing the planning and order fulfilment processes for the SSA/NAF from India plants. Also lead the Supply planning for Morocco mfg. plant. This role involves managing key performance indicators (KPIs), coordinating logistics, resolving technical issues, and ensuring timely quality releases and billing.

Key Responsibilities:

• KPIs Management:
Monitor and manage Out of Stock (OOS) rates, Quarterly billing targets, Forecast Accuracy, Days of Forward Cover (DoFC), and Inventory levels across all stocks keeping points

• Demand Planning:
Lead the demand planning cycle, from forecast to Billing target. Ensure IBP process is followed.

• Supply Planning:
Supply planning for Maroc plant based out of Morocco country and 3rd party Integration based out of Africa

• Logistics Coordination:
Decide between air and sea transport for shipments to optimize cost and efficiency.

• Technical Issues Tracking:
Track and resolve technical issues to ensure smooth operations.

• Artwork Changes & Critical CRs:
Monitor and close critical change requests and artwork changes.

• Quality Release Tracking:
Ensure timely quality releases to facilitate on-time billing.

• MIS Reporting:
Handle Management Information System (MIS) reporting, including ESNOP and participate in weekly calls.

• PO and SO Sufficiency Tracking:
Ensure purchase orders (PO) and sales orders (SO) are sufficient to meet demand.

• Process Improvement Initiatives:
Initiate and implement process improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency.

• IBP Process Adherence:
Adhere to Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process and calendar.

• Coordination with ISP Plants:
Coordinate with all ISP plants for supply commitments, issue resolution, and smooth supply of SKUs from India to SSA and NAF

• Team Leadership:
Lead and mentor a team of 4 members. Foster a collaborative and high-performance work environment.

II. Manage the inventory planning process in order to support the demand forecasts accurately and achieve overall sales objectives in close coordination with Supply Planning / Manufacturing team.

• Manage inventory target (including safety stock levels) by effective inventory planning and tracking of products

• Maintaining and establishing accurate product stock norms and product classifications (A, B,

C) Using the best-in-class analytical methods. Creating, managing and driving continued updates on the analysis

• Ensure the availability of stock by product categories to meet current and identified future demands and avoid out of stock situations. In all instances, be aware of possible OOS, and existing OOS SKU’s and project managing the full risk mitigation process to mitigate risk and to reduce the OOS % to below the KPI % threshold.

• Track the stock received from suppliers to maintain communication with logistics for shipments to the warehouse and distribution centres

• Analyse and generate report by order to track the quantities and when it should be delivered to the Warehouse to meet scheduled timelines

• Track and project inventory levels on a SKU and global level.

• Minimize out of stock number to within acceptable budget and threshold norms and project accurate out of stock impact over time. Making sure that a early warning system is in place.

• Support business, marketing, inventory or production strategies, and organisational / supply chain improvement opportunities to meet market needs. Actively assess available capacities and develop strategies to increase capacities where risks are apparent.

• Review and assess risk to supply and demand variability and identify opportunities to manage and mitigate risk.

• Develop, implement and use tools and technology for managing and analysing the supplier portfolio

• Develop and maintain constructive and cooperative working relationships with all stakeholders.

III. Drive initiatives in people and system fronts to suit the regional requirements for continuous development of regional SCM performance

• Drive SAP and related systems’…