Key Responsibilities:
- Act as first Escalation point for emerging or sudden supply disruption and provide administrative support for all forecast, purchasing, inventory and logistic-related matters.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with cross-functional teams, suppliers and appointed local partners to ensure excellent service levels and leverage their support for urgent service recoveries as needed.
- Conduct forecast sufficiency & reasonability checks and share trends insight and recommendation.
- Jointly work with commercial team to review and improve demand accuracy to improve supply chain efficiency and customer service level.
- Forecasting, Inventory Planning and Logistics
- Responsible for inventory planning process for categories as assigned.
- Includes inventory replenishment, preparation, and processing of purchase order, tracking order status and updating relevant parties in a timely manner.
- Support new product launches and depletion.
- Prepare claims against suppliers for damaged or short supplied stocks.
- Maintain monthly inventory in line with required safety stock levels.
- To investigate stock discrepancies and work with stakeholders to maintain stock accuracy & integrity.
- Analyze and highlight business risk and opportunity to stakeholders and jointly propose appropriate mitigation plans.
- Conduct forecast sufficiency & reasonability checks and share trends insight and recommendation.
- Act as first Escalation point for emerging or sudden supply disruption and provide administrative support for all forecast, purchasing, inventory and logistic-related matters.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with cross-functional teams, suppliers and appointed local partners to ensure excellent service levels and leverage their support for urgent service recoveries as needed.
- Jointly work with commercial team to review and improve demand accuracy to improve supply chain efficiency and customer service level.
2. Continuous Improvement / Reporting
- Jointly work with commercial team to review and reduce market returns.
- Managing and minimizing business waste.
- Prepare weekly / monthly management meeting and business review decks.
- Establish and analyse SCM reports as needed.
- Recommend and deliver cost and process improvement opportunities.
- Drive improvement initiatives related to supply & inventory management to support the achievement of commercial goals.
- Support the supply chain digital transformation initiatives and opportunities.
- Partake in supply chain collaboration opportunities with external parties.
3. Leadership & Development
- Oversee and steer supply activities across total chilled and ambient categories to ensure business objectives are met.
- Provide backup for colleagues as per exergies of work.
4. Any other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Requirements:
- Min. Degree in Business related course
- At least 5 years of relevant working experience in a fast-paced Manufacturing environment
- Proficient in SAP
