EXECUTIVE I - PURCHASE AND PLANNING

Asian Paints Limited; Mumbai; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Asian Paints Limited in Mumbai invites an Executive I for Purchase and Planning to help synchronize procurement, production and sales. You will coordinate with factories, suppliers and the sales team to ensure timely material availability and optimal capacity utilization.

The role requires strong planning, forecasting and MIS development to track orders and outputs. You will contribute to cost-saving initiatives and maintain supplier performance to support smooth operations.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordination with sales, plant and procurement teams to meet customer demand on time.
• Daily tracking of orders and planning material procurement.
• Forecasting demand and capacity planning to align monthly targets.
• Ensuring material quality and timely supplier communications.
• Developing MIS for planning and reporting.
• Negotiating cost savings and supplier terms.

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EXECUTIVE I - PURCHASE AND PLANNING

Location: Mumbai, MH, IN

Areas of Work: Sales & Marketing

Job Id: 15798

Central Planning

• Conducting Sales and Operations meets at the start of the month to align on monthly billing targets
• Daily tracking of retail and projects orders to plan raw material procurement timely and giving advance intimation to suppliers
• Sharing of monthly Production targets with factories and tracking output against same
• Ensuring effective coordinations with sales team to ensure orders are in place for effective utilization of capacities
• Forecasting Demands for short and long term to ensure required capacities planning is started timely
• Devising Planning related MIS and ensuring timely circulation

Central Procurement

• Sharing inputs on open retail orders with team and getting orders generated and shared with suppliers on time
• Timely generation of pick lists and ensuring material is made available for production as per schedule
• Sharing forecasts with suppliers and ensuring capacities are in place as per requirementsCost Savings initiatives by means of value engineering, scouting alternate sources, rate negotiations etc.
• Ensuring quality of material procured is meeting the required specification
• Inventory management – ensuring inventory built is as per agreed norms to enable effective utilization of working capital. Liquidation of dead and slow moving inventory in co-ordination with sales team.

People

• Handling suppliers across country for both the factories.
• Co-ordination
• Co-ordination across multiple teams like Plant and Sales to meet customer requirements on time