Tactical Planner

Job Description Summary

- Tactical planner is responsible for driving and managing the Master Production Schedule for the tactical horizon (3 to 24 months) ensuring capacity and resources are in place to support agreed demand plan to satisfy the customer requirements and to keep the interface between the site and its customers acting as the primary contact providing visibility of the supply plan to the customers and maintains the Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

 

Job Description

Major accountabilities:

• Establishes optimal master production schedule for the tactical horizon from month 3 / 4 to 24 months, including Production volumes based on demand, rough cut capacity analysis and resources allocation resulting in anticipated operational costs and inventory levels.
• Ensures that the customers have clear visibility of the current valid supply plan and monitor the delivery commitments in terms of quantities and timelines, in accordance to the Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Coordinates action plans to remediate to resources constraints and manages supply KPI reporting and analysis.
• Ensures right level of SKU Inventories at the next point of the supply chain.
• Confirms supply orders, firmed production orders at the entry point of the time fence.
• Ensure process and SAP knowledge is continuously enlarged and applied in order to fully leverage the value of the integrated SAP system and to achieve high level of service, cost efficiency, quality and compliance.
• Establishes, maintains and operationally implements integration and reconciliation activities between Global NTO Supply chain and Finance.
• Monitoring, controlling and improving SC processes and by managing and steering a portfolio of SC projects at Platform level.
• Ensure that all logistics processes comply with all relevant regulations like Customs and Trade laws and regulations by supporting issuance, implementation and management of Standards and Policies covering commercial and non-commercial materials.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining SLAs with related Planning Parameter setup in alignment with the customers.
• Work closely with all stakeholder like CTC Country Managers, regional Head of Logistics, SCM in the area of responsibility.
• Support regional logistics function on a variety of projects and in identifying and implementing of cost savings opportunities.
• Establishes optimal master production schedule for the tactical horizon from month 3 / 4 to 24 months, including Production volumes based on demand, rough cut capacity analysis and resources allocation resulting in anticipated operational costs and inventory levels.
• Aligns Master Production Schedule (MPS) to the production plan approved in Sales and Operations (SAndOP).
• Facilitate Supply Review Meeting and actively support the entire SAndOP process.
• Responsible for Monthly Demand Review Meeting incl. demand assumptions, recognizing trends, showing variances to last demand submissions, as in-put to Supply Review meeting and Monthly Business Review (MBR) meeting within SAndOP process.
• Manages demand control activities (short term-3/4 months, within the time fence) and provides inputs to Master Planning Schedule (MPS) and detailed scheduling.

Essential Requirements:

• Functional Breadth
• Project Management
• Operations Management and Execution
• Collaborating across boundaries
• Business Networking
• Change Control
• Continual Improvement Process
• Efficiency
• General Hse Knowledge
• Including Gdp
• Inventory Management
• Knowledge Of Gmp
• Order Fulfillment
• Order Management
• Procurement
• Supply Chain Management & Planning
• English

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Skills Desired

Business Networking, Business Scenario Planning     , Change Control, Continual Improvement Process, Efficiency, Flexibility, General Hse Knowledge, Including Gdp, Inventory Management, Knowledge Of Gmp, Operations, Order Fulfillment, Order Management, Procurement, Product Distribution, Risk Management, Supply Chain, Supply-Chain Management, Supply Chain Planning, Supply Planning