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Job Purpose and Impact

We are looking for a detailed, proactive & strong analytical problem-solving Supply Planner to manage short to mid-term supply plans for Chocolate production. This role ensures product availability, efficient inventory levels, and manages supply chain reliability & cost management. He/she collaborates & works closely with product line, customer service operations, production, procurement, and warehouse logistics teams to ensure smooth

Key Accountabilities

• • Develop and maintain supply plans based on demand forecasts and production capacity.
  • Responsible for creating and maintaining the overall production schedule, ensuring quality and adherence to resource availability & capability optimization.
  • Monitor execution of supply plan & track supply performance on production scheduling adherence, line utilizations to ensure supply chain reliability.
  • Monitor inventory levels and adjust plans according to production lead-time and demand/supply requirements.  
  • Coordinate with production scheduler/material planner to ensure production capacity & materials availability to ensure execution of supply plan.
  • Identify supply risks and propose mitigation actions.
  • Validate & maintain planning data and parameters in ERP system to ensure data visibility & accuracy.
  • Work closely with plant ops team to maximize/optimize plant utilization to improve supply reliably, production efficiency, lead-time and reduce changeovers, wastage & production costs.
  • Help develop gap coverage plans during inventory shortages or quality crisis.
  • Help create requirements plan and long-term supply plan for assigned products and locations as input for the integrated business planning cycle.
  • Manage & resolve supply planning- related challenges arising from production disruption (eg. down-time, manpower constraints, quality issues), materials availability, and urgent requirements.
  • Involve in new product launch, project charter commercialization (end-to-end) supply chain processes to ensure control adherence & timely execution to deliver & meet product launch.
  • Participate in generating and executing cycle and safety stock plans with approved supply plan inputs.
  • Prepare production supply/inventory related reports & key performance metrics monitoring for weekly S&OE and monthly Supply Review meeting for planning updates.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in Supply Chain, Business, or related field.
• 5+ years’ experience in supply or production planning, preferably in food commodity manufacturing industry.
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Able to work in fast-paced environment
• Proficient in MS office especially Excel, macro, Power Bi & statistical forecasting knowledge for data visual and analysis.
• Familiar with ERP systems (AX Dynamics, SAP, Oracle, etc.)
• Willing to be based at Tuas