Job Description

1. JOB DETAILS:
Position Title: Asst. Manager Planning (Corporate)
Reports to: Head of Planning & Distribution
Department: Supply Chain
Location - Noida

2. JOB PURPOSE:
Supply Planner will create a feasible supply plan driven through interpreting differentiated planning strategies, satisfying customer requirements, optimizing stock and asset. He will optimize Supply Dynamics to generate an agreed business plan, incorporating ranges across a rolling horizon within the S&OP Process. He will also establish the most effective supply network and planning strategy to ensure proper product availability and collaborate across Supply Chain to deliver sustainable competitive advantage for the company, their customers and suppliers.
Planning position is responsible for all forecasting activities associated with customers and products. The Demand Planner creates and maintains forecast models for their customers, incorporating business intelligence and forecast information gathered from sales, marketing based on projected demand & historical data with adherence to share of business (SOB based on L1, L2, and L3 category of supplier.

3. Basic Function:

• Develop demand forecasts (operational forecasts) at multiple levels of aggregation for multiple

time horizons as part of a demand planning function.

• Review historical sales trends, research demand drivers, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate forecast results.
• Coordinate cross-functional research activities to reconcile significant variances and refine the

forecast model to reflect updated sales and marketing assumptions considering dynamic business scenario.

• Interact with Marketing, Sourcing, CPP, Ops and Regional SCC to understand demand forecast

drivers.

• Utilize a collaborative and consensus approach by working with Marketing, Sourcing CPP, Ops &

regional SCCs to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information is used for demand
forecasts.

• Use and maintain the MRP & Demand Planning tools as the primary forecasting system tool.
• Provide input to the Supply Planning organization in developing inventory strategies on existing

items, new products, and product phase-outs.

• Closely coordinate and communicate customer action plans with Regional team
• Build supplier reliability index & performance rating.
• Inter & intra department coordination

4. KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Description Performance Indicators
Distribution Requirements Planning / Replenishment

• Determines and ensures execution of deployment strategies for Finished Goods i.e. push vs pull
• Understands and influences the planning parameters (In-House and External) and assumptions i.e. production cycle time, sequencing, volatility
• Derives Finished Goods (FG's) stock policy using inventory planning models by stock holding location
• Determines gross requirements by distribution centre or market
• Understands warehouse and transportation capacity planning
• Manages and influences customer relationship s e.g. Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)

Understands the customer requirements in the short term (e.g.Lead time / min max stock)
Create statistical forecasts

• Gather, analyse and validate data
• Review resulting statistical forecast model Apply error analysis techniques to improve forecasting
• Summarize/aggregate statistical forecasts . Zero stock out situations 99%+ Fill Rate

. Supplier KPI
. Timely delivery - OTIF
. No stock out Provide input to volume planning ( Latest Estimates / annual

process/Vendor reliability & performance :

• Facilitate and manage demand planning/customer meetings
• Achieve consensus with the business side and the demand chain performance parameter.

Maintain demand planning system and software

• Enter and modify data and ensure the correctness of product hierarchy
• Monitor trends in forecast error . Customer (Internal / external ) Satisfaction Zero stock out `

Production Scheduling

• Optimizes and communicates the line schedule taking into account sequencing
• Creates feasible production schedules, considers constraints, e.g. line capacity, labour, batch sizes, run rates, bottlenecks, planned downtime
• Understands difference between re-order point and fixed cycle scheduling, and when to apply the relevant strategy
• Executes agreed manufacturing run strategy
• Manages and communicates exceptions
• Influences the safety-stock holding of suppliers for Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) etc
• Managing Inventory Planning, Managing Materials Requirement Planning (MRP), Managing Material Call Off

Agreeing Constrained Supply Plan

• Conducts effective dialogue on assumptions and articulation of facts and evidence
• Optimizes inventory to deliver the demand plan
• Negotiates and influences the decision making process
• Understands and manages the functional and individual biases
• Determines and agrees key outputs e.g. constrained supply plan, coasted supply plan, inventory plan
• Raises future capacity and stock issues Determines continuous improvement . No Stock out with adequate re order level

. No stock out
. 100% delivery to the customer

5. JOB CONTEXT:
This position takes care of one/multiple EBU brands of JFL End to end planning, replenishment, logistics & distribution of RM/PM/Semi-FGs to all the stores Pan India. This person acts as the SPOC for the Brands assigned to him for all supplies related queries, performs data analysis, dig insights and provide the necessary details to business for informed decision making.

6. COMMUNICATIONS & WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:Internal:

• All Departments
• Senior Management

External:

• Business partners
• Transporters

7. QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, & SKILLS:
. Qualification Engineering graduate, MBA preferred
. Experience

• 3-5 years of experience in demand & supply planning/ capacity management
• Must be familiar with OPM/ERP/SAP-MM systems

Key Skills
Capacity PlanningReplenishmentDemand PlanningDemand ForecastingSupply Planning
SAP-MM
Skills highlighted with ‘‘ are preferred keyskills

Education

UG:B.Tech/B.E. in Any Specialization

PG:MBA/PGDM in Any Specialization

Company Profile

Jubilant FoodWorks (JFL)

About Jubilant FoodWorks Limited
Jubilant FoodWorks Limited (JFL/Company) is part of Jubilant Bhartia group and India€™s largest food service company, with a network of 576 Domino€™s Pizza stores (as of 31 March, 2013) across 123 cities. JFL & its subsidiary operate Domino€™s Pizza brand with the exclusive rights for India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal. The Company is the market leader in the organized pizza market with a 67% market share in India (as per Euro monitor report 2013). The Company also has exclusive rights for developing and operating Dunkin€™ Donuts restaurants for India and has launched 14 Dunkin€™ Donuts restaurants in India (as of 30th June 2013).

For more updates and information on the Company, please log on to www.jubilantfoodworks.com; www.dominos.co.in; www.dunkinindia.com

Salary:
Not Disclosed by Recruiter

Industry:
Food Processing

Department:
Procurement & Supply Chain

Role Category:
Stores & Material Management

Role:
Demand Planner

Employment Type:
Full Time, Permanent