Supply Planning Assistant Manager – Unilever International

Responsible for leading the overall supply planning function for Korea based business verticals in Unilever International. Key job scope includes:

• Operational Supply Planning

• Capacity Interlocking to support business growth (both medium term and long term)

• Sourcing Network Optimization

• Inventory Planning

• Performance Management

Operational Supply Planning

• Periodically liaise with sourcing units to review supply plans against confirmed customer orders.

• Consolidate supply plans from all sourcing units and share with customer service team.

• Identify short-term capacity issues and highlight the same to the business. Prepare contingency plans by offering products from alternate Sus.

• Loss Tree Analysis for all the non-supplied orders (e.g. forecast led loss, capacity led loss, material issues, etc.).

• KPI Review with the sourcing units at the end of each planning cycle (Service level, Supply plan compliance, Loss reasons, etc.)

• Feed supply plans and potential capacity issues to the demand planner to help in identifying the risks to the financial forecast as part of the S&OP cycle.

• Monitor and lead the offshore supply planning operations.

Capacity Interlocking to support business growth

• Interlock 0-24 months capacity (medium term) with the sourcing units and cluster product group supply chain basis forecast received from the S&OP cycle.

• Interlock 2-5 yrs capacity (long term) with the Global Supply Chain team.

• Identify UI driven CapEx(capital expenditures) requirements basis discussions with Global Supply Chain team and feedback the same to UI business and finance team for appropriate evaluation and underwriting.

Sourcing Network Optimization

• Sign off the UI sourcing strategy with the global supply chain team.

• Work with UI finance and Global Supply Chain teams to identify opportunities for sourcing network optimization basis predefined selection criteria (service, cost, etc)

• Drive supply chain cost reduction through sourcing network optimization.

Inventory Planning

• Define the planning strategies at a ‘Customer–Sourcing Unit–SKU’ combination basis forecast and service criteria (Make to Forecast vs. Make to Order).

• Define stock holding principles for the Make to Forecast SKUs clearly categorizing the stock holding into relevant buckets (safety stock, cycle stock, buffer, etc.)

• Define stock replenishment guidelines and ordering frequency based on different planning cycles for each sourcing unit.

• Monitor DOH (Days On Hand) against target and identify improvement opportunities.

• SLOB management: Highlight slow moving and non-moving stocks to the business to take appropriate actions for disposal.

Performance Management

• Define and measure performance metrics for measuring effectiveness of the supply planning function.

• Service Level by SU

• Supply Plan Compliance

• Supply Loss Tree

• % of Capacity Interlocked vs. Forecast

• DOH (Days on Hand)

• Slow Moving Non Moving as % of total Stocks

• FG write off

• Supply Chain Cost improvement through Sourcing Network Optimization

Internal

• Sourcing Units

• UI Supply Chain Team (Demand Planner & Customer Service teams)

• Category Supply Chain team (global and clusters)

• Business (CD, Marketing, Finance, etc.)

*minimal external stakeholder interaction

ESSENTIAL

• Bachelors Degree from a relevant field

• 4 to 7 yrs experience in Supply Chain

• Strong analytical skills

• Strong Interpersonal skills

• Fluent is MS Office, Excel, Word, PowerPoint

PREFERRED 

• FMCG experience

• 2 yrs in supply planning experience

• Knowledge in PowerQuery, PowerBI

• Candidates with APICS certification

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or supply chain