Execution Planner - Home Care

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Main Responsibilities

PPDS and Material Planning

The Execution Planner is responsible for short-term execution planning for Home Care production at Minburi Factory, covering both Production Planning & Scheduling and Material Planning / MRP. The role converts the Master Production Schedule into feasible weekly and daily production schedules, ensures raw and packaging material readiness, manages planning orders in SAP, and works closely with Manufacturing, Supply Planning, Procurement, Quality, Engineering, Warehouse, and suppliers to protect service, optimize inventory, and reduce business waste.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain feasible weekly and daily production schedules aligned with MPS, demand priorities, capacity, manpower, inventory, material readiness, changeover requirements, and factory constraints.
• Review previous week’s execution, schedule adherence, missed outputs, and volume gaps; coordinate recovery plans and adjust WPS to reflect demand changes, production losses, material constraints, and service recovery actions.
• Optimize line utilization and sequencing to improve productivity, reduce changeover losses, and ensure production plans are feasible against available factory resources.
• Conduct capacity and resource planning, including line loading, manpower requirements, asset utilization, and production feasibility, in coordination with Manufacturing teams.
• Review N-1 RDS performance, stock reconciliation, current-week material requirements, and firm plan commitments; analyze MPS horizons from N+1 to N+3 to identify RPM constraints and support WPS development.
• Execute weekly RDS planning, MRP runs, and planning output analysis to ensure raw and packaging materials are ordered, delivered, and available in line with production requirements, supplier lead times, MOQ, lot sizes, safety stock, and inventory policies.
• Monitor daily material delivery status and coordinate with suppliers, traders, Procurement, Material Planning, and Warehouse teams to resolve delivery issues, mitigate shortages, and prevent production disruption.
• Create, revise, and maintain production planning orders in SAP, convert planned orders into process orders, and ensure planning transactions are accurate and disciplined.
• Review Unilever Purchasing Contracts, follow up PR to PO conversion, and coordinate with Procurement and suppliers to ensure timely order placement, order execution, and material delivery.
• Manage inventory health by monitoring safety stock, stock coverage, replenishment, excess stock, ageing materials, slow-moving and obsolete inventory, write-off exposure, and stock depletion plans.
• Coordinate with Warehouse on pallet requirements, storage planning, material availability, and finished goods output alignment to support inventory policy and customer service objectives.
• Support NPD, relaunches, promotions, formulation changes, packaging changes, supplier changes, and discontinuations through timely master data setup, material readiness, phase-in and phase-out alignment, and transition risk management.
• Lead stakeholder alignment by communicating schedule revisions, planning updates, supply risks, recovery actions, and agreed decisions to Manufacturing, Response Planning, Supply Planning, Quality, Engineering, Warehouse, Procurement, and suppliers.
• Maintain accurate planning master data in ERP and planning systems, including production versions, work standards, resource settings, lead times, MOQ, lot sizes, safety stock, supplier sources, material status, and planning parameters.
• Track and communicate key KPIs, including service level, schedule adherence, line utilization, material availability, supplier OTIF, shortage cases, inventory days, business waste, and continuous improvement actions.

Experience & Qualification

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Logistics, Business Administration, or related fields.

Experience

• 1-3 years of experience in Production Planning & Scheduling, Material Planning, MRP, Supply Planning, or Supply Chain functions.
• Experience in FMCG, Manufacturing, Home Care, Personal Care, Foods, or Consumer Goods industry preferred.

Key Competencies & Skills

• Strong knowledge of MRP and Inventory Management.
• SAP proficiency (ERP, or equivalent).
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and data analysis skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Supplier and stakeholder management skills.
• Effective communication and cross-functional collaboration.
• Risk assessment and contingency planning mindset.
• Continuous improvement orientation.
• Preferred Certifications: SAP Certification or equivalent Supply Chain certification.