Distribution Planner

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Date: Oct 4, 2024

Location: Petaling Jaya, MY

Company: AkzoNobel

We supply the sustainable and innovative paints and coatings that our customers, communities – and the environment – are increasingly relying on. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and have set our sights on becoming the global industry leader. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering paints company that’s committed to science-based targets and is taking genuine action to address globally relevant challenges and protect future generations.

For more information please visit www.akzonobel.com.

Job Description

Creating of the distribution requirement plan to ensure optimized distribution of products from factories and central warehouses towards the different regional/global warehouses to support customer service. Understand market demand and customer needs in order to best divide the production plan and allocate inventory.
High-level understanding of the trade-offs between service, inventory and costs.
The role requires a comprehensive understanding of existing and future capacity plans/constraints at the manufacturing plant and distribution network, and knowledge of how production capacity can be flexed to meet demand.
Manage activities related to distribution planning to secure demand (fcst and orders) in line with the required customer service offer (in reliability, lead-time, MOQ and mode of transport). Ensure availability in line with MRP parameters, replenishment strategy and production/ supplier capabilities.
Ensure master data correctness & proper housekeeping of transactional data.
Ensure good communication and integration with other planning teams, manufacturing, logistics, customer care and other stakeholders. Drive MDI meeting & gate keeping meetings with other departments and support with providing relevant KPI’s to measure performance.
Support projects and process improvement to enhance performance and efficiency of the required planning activities (SLOBs, Inventories and Service across scope site / supply points).
Manage the supply and replenishments across the whole supply network & review mid term and long term outlook of the supply plan against resources and warehouse capacities.
Ensure consolidation of independent, dependent and distribution demand at SKU level.
Drive gate keeping meetings with the other departments and support with providing relevant KPI’s to measure performance.
Provide impact analysis when needed to show the impact of decisions or scenarios to the plan. Support on reporting where necessary.
Balance service level (OTIF) and inventory targets (OWC) at the primary and/or secondary DC’s, while understanding cost impacts on manufacturing.
Manage reduction and prevention of slow and obsolete stock. Ensure rework and scrapping at the primary and/or secondary DC’s
Monitor FINI distributed to DCs as contact point to resolve over/under stock position. Execute and support allocation of constraint supply to demand/ create needed visibility through network.
Good understanding of production and distribution throughput times. Ensure replenishment policies are defined and maintained for all SKUs, considering, shipment restrictions, shipment calendar, etc… including inventory stocking policies, safety stock levels on ERP system.
Inputs to inventory strategy on existing, new and phase-out products.
Ensure master data correctness & proper housekeeping of transactional data.
Support projects and process improvement to enhance performance and efficiency of the required planning activities.

Short Description

In case of work requirement, you might be assigned the below roles assignment based on the superior assessment of your bandwidth and capability.

Material Planning: you are involved in planning all raw materials and packaging, ensuring that the production plan can be executed. Through close contact with procurement and suppliers you ensure a solid supplier relationship and performance.

Production Planning (PP): you develop the factory plan for the short (12-weeks) and long term (24 months) in which you fulfill market demand while considering factory capacity/constraints.

Key Performance Indicators

Service – ensure on time and in full targets (Delivery Capability)
Inventory within target levels – both in value and in days
SLOBs – slow moving and obsolete stock in value
Inventory availability throughout the network
Stake Holders Management

Experience

At least 3-year experience in Supply Planning in FMCG, Paint/Coating or Retail
Expert on Supply Planning in SAP and BI
Experience on IBP processes, Advanced Supply Planning tools, MRP and Master Data Governance.
Savvy in Microsoft Excel especially in formula and Pivot Table, Power Point. Advantage if familiar and able to apply Microsoft Query, Power BI and Excel Macro.
Project and Change Management skills

At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

Requisition ID: 38636

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