Senior Planning Executive

Spritzer Bhd; Shah Alam; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Spritzer Group Malaysia is seeking a capable procurement and production planning professional to coordinate demand forecasting, production schedules and materials planning across our beverage operations.

You will work with sales, logistics, and suppliers to optimize stock levels, minimize obsolescence, and ensure data accuracy in the ERP system to support timely market fulfillment.

Responsibilities

• Review, plan, control and monitor finished goods movement for smooth order fulfillment.
• Prepare production schedule based on forecast and sales movement.
• Manage packaging materials ordering and maintain healthy stock levels.
• Minimize obsolete stock and monitor risks to production schedule.
• Liaise with external providers on pricing, delivery and terms; maintain confidentiality.
• Consolidate data to create demand plans from historical sales, trends, seasonality, promotions, and targets.
• Translate demand into capacity, production and inventory planning.
• Provide monthly overall capacity plan to SCM for review.

Job description

To review, to plan, to control and to monitor the finished goods movement for the smooth order fulfillment to market

Production schedule base on forecast and sales movement

Production output performance

Packaging material ordering and scheduling at healthy stock level

Final product at health stock level

To minimize the pallet transfer process on finished goods by proper planning on order received with enough lead time

Tracking production volume and monitoring customer demand patterns and purchasing trends.

To arrange monthly sales forecast meeting & SLOB (Slow moving and obsolete inventory) meeting

Minimize obsolete stock and ensure business is left with minimum liability.

Understand and manage risks to minimise impact on production schedule & to minimize planned downtime.

Tracking production volume and monitoring customer demand patterns and purchasing trends.

Utilize any ERP or IT system that is in place and ensure that data is accurate and up to date and resolve any issues as required.

Consolidate needed data to create the demand plan such as historical sales, market trends, seasonality, promotions, budget sales targets and inventory targeted levels.

Based on sales demand, translate into final demand plans to be used in capacity planning, production planning and inventory planning.

Monthly provide overall capacity plan to SCM for review purpose

To implement cost control in energy and overtime concept during production planning

To lead and continuous improvement on daily activities and training

To coordinate and liaise with relevant department in production planning

To ensure that procurement activities has been conducted according to documented procedure and sufficient procurement data are gathered before the purchase of goods.

To liaise / negotiate with external providers on matters relating to pricing, delivery and terms and condition. Negotiation shall be conducted in an open and professional manner where no deception shall be allowed.

To upkeep all procurement data which shall include but not limited to external provider information, purchase price, etc. All this information shall be treated as private and confidential and shall not be disclosed to any third party without the consent from management of the company.

To analyze current procurement activities and recommend improvement plan, also work with the operations team on cost-savings initiatives.

To coordinate external provider evaluation activities, monitor the performance and implement improvement plan or develop potential external providers

To be assigned with special tasks on an ad-hoc basis should there’s need arises.

SPRITZER Group is Malaysia’s leading and most integrated bottled water producer. Since the late 1980s, the Group and its five subsidiaries have specialized in the manufacturing and distribution of natural mineral water, sparkling and distilled drinking water, carbonated and non-carbonated fruit-flavoured beverages, functional drinks, toothbrushes, preforms, and packaging bottles. Backed by qualified professionals and advanced automated technology, SPRITZER ensures every product meets exceptional quality standards, earning numerous awards over the years.

SPRITZER Group is Malaysia’s leading and most integrated bottled water producer. Since the late 1980s, the Group and its five subsidiaries have specialized in the manufacturing and distribution of natural mineral water, sparkling and distilled drinking water, carbonated and non-carbonated fruit-flavoured beverages, functional drinks, toothbrushes, preforms, and packaging bottles. Backed by qualified professionals and advanced automated technology, SPRITZER ensures every product meets exceptional quality standards, earning numerous awards over the years.