API Supply Chain Planning Lead

This vacancy is for Production Planning person at Ankleshwar plant of Zydus API division and look after Ahmedabad site as well as other LL sites.

Person shall have experience of at least 10 years in Product Planning in any reputed API company with hands-on experience of SAP HANA.

• End to End Demand and Supply Planning
• Long Range Planning for 5 years and Short-Range Planning for 6 months
• Budgeting for the Intm. and API batches to be manufactured over the year.
• Clean Room / Intm. Area occupancy as per Budget.
• Production Plan vs Actual Tracking. Ensuring Production is in line with the plan and escalate in case of any deviation / Mfg issue.
• Distribution Plan for the month.
• Commits for the next 6 months on Product / SKU level.
• ATP / Commits to Merchant Orders / Inquiries. Customer OTIFs
• RM Planning – PRs to be raised to Purchasing Team and Commits to be taken. Vendor OTIFs to be published.
• Sales Planning for the current month at Customer Level.
• Forecast Accuracy (%) and MAPE / C vs A / A vs R to be published on monthly KPI Dashboards.
• Freight cost Tracking and Reduction (Rs / kg)
• Inventory Planning on monthly basis. Projections for next 4 months basis the Demand & Mfg. plans.
• New Product Validations / Project Management requirements to be taken for Demand planning and commits to be provided to the respective teams.
• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Finance, GDSO, Quality and Production teams.
• Participate in monthly Captive and Merchant S&OP meetings and present recommendations / possibilities.
• Run MRP / Create Process Orders in SAP HANA
• Pull out various data points and reports from SAP HANA / LIMS software.

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