Demand & Supply Planning Lead

Solenis; Makati; On-site; PHP 700,000 - 950,000; Full time

Job summary

Solenis in Makati is seeking a skilled Supply Chain Planner to lead demand and supply planning for a portfolio of products. You will manage the forecast, address supply constraints, and participate in product lifecycle management, collaborating with Sales & Marketing to meet inventory and service targets.

The role involves driving regular demand reviews, maintaining data accuracy in SAP/WPR and Logility, and reporting to management on forecast performance and supply issues.

Qualifications

• Experience in demand planning and supply chain coordination.
• Knowledge of ERP systems such as SAP and related planning tools is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the demand and supply planning for a portfolio of products.
• Develop and communicate consensus demand forecasts and address supply constraints.
• Participate in product lifecycle management and manage forecasts to support inventory and service targets.
• Propagate S&OP discipline with regular demand reviews with Sales.
• Maintain data and MRP settings in SAP/WPR and Logility for analytics.
• Conduct monthly demand reviews with sales to refine forecasts and bias/results.
• Provide updates to Management on sales performance vs forecast and current production concerns.
• Review OTIF and inventory to ensure supply continuity and optimize working capital.
• Coordinate with Finance and Sales on reports and ad hoc analyses as needed.
• Consolidate monthly S&OP reports and support ad hoc reporting.

Job description

This role will be responsible for leading the demand and supply planning for a portfolio of products where Sales & Operations Planning Process is a critical part. Develops the consensus statement of demand and understands and addresses any supply constraints and is also involved with overall product supply capacity planning. In addition is the key contact for Sales and Marketing and participates in the product life-cycle management process and is responsible for managing the forecast which contributes to the delivery of inventory and service targets for the assigned portfolio(s).

Key Responsibilities

• Propagates and communicates of the S&OP discipline in the country through the conduct of regular & detailed demand reviews with Sales to discuss the historical demand data, comparing this with the latest sales rolling forecast, in order to generate a validated and signed off demand forecast by the correspondence Sales Director for roll-up in demand planning in G3 SAP & Logility.
• Maintains accurate data, source list, MRP setting in G3 SAP/WPR & Logility to enable proper data analytics.
• Conducts regular, monthly demand reviews with sales team that extracts market updates, fosters a collaborative & open discussion that enriches the demand forecasting process and results to better SFA & bias results.
• Provides regular updates to Management and to Sales on MTD sales performance vis-a-vis the latest demand forecast, current production concerns that may impact supply, as well as projects in the pipeline that improves supply continuity and KPI achievement and action plans to be affected and to help ensure the achievement of the sales target as well as the WC budget.
• Provides detailed SFA & Bias monthly results to Management that shows the drivers of forecast errors, for Sales action planning & correction.
• Reviews open order and provide updates to OTC and sales team to
• Reviews the monthly OTIF reports to provide key reasons affecting delay delivery and coordinate with correspondence team to have corrective action plan to improve service standard
• Reviews inventory on a weekly base to ensure supply assurance and slow-moving stock monitor and work with correspondence team to have stock clearance actions to improve working capital AOP
• Review slow-moving stock/will be expired stock/expired stock with sales team to have follow up actions to ensure to have healthy inventory and avoid dead stock in warehouse.
• Update Import & Export summary at least once a week
• Keep full set shipping documents for filling
• Need to verify vendor’s invoice price with PO/OA price
• Submit invoice for settlement on time
• Clear IRGR target <60 days
• Reports directly to the Country Supply Chain Manager and facilitates the consolidation of the monthly S&OP reports and any ad hoc reports that may be needed.
• Other job-related responsibilities that maybe assigned to you in line with your function.