HP Supply Chain Planner 

India, Tamil Nadu, Chennai 

627879865

Supply Chain Planner

Job Responsibilities:

• Manages demand planning processes utilizing wide range of forecasting methods throughout the service support life.
• Analyses demand trends to identify important deviations and root causes.
• Anticipates factors that might influence demand, such as seasonal trends, lifecycle specifics, others.
• Analyses Forecast Accuracy results and identifies reasons for deviations and take corrective actions

• Analyses stocking requirements for multi-echelon network and defines requirements to meet the desired customer service level, while optimizing inventory and inventory carrying costs.
• Evaluates current and future inventory requirements and takes action to mitigate shortages or excesses.
• Applies solid understanding in Multi-echelon Inventory Optimization methodology to take inventory decisions.
• Analyses inventory trends and deviations, and root causes, takes corrective actions.
• Closely monitors Excess & Obsolescence trends and takes actions to mitigate cost impact

• Optimizes sourcing plan to reach targeted inventory, by maximizing repair vs new buy
• Optimizes network replenishment requirements across many locations
• Initiates timely balancing of material to fulfill needs or avoid overstock

• Manages lifecycle events such as NPI and Last Time Buy in close collaboration with PLM and Suppliers
• Supports continues process improvement and process automation by analyzing data, identifying patterns and trends to draw conclusions
• Applies solid understanding of integrated software systems and their workflow

Key Deliverables:

• Customer Service Level: Level Of Availability & Backorders
• Inventory target
• E&O cost
• Customer Demand Forecast Accuracy
• Supply Forecast Accuracy
• Ordering Costs
• Productivity

Education (degree) and professional experience required:

• Bachelor/master’s degree in supply chain or math - related subject or Engineering
• +6-10 years of experience in Supply Chain, Planning or other roles with strong analytical aspects are critical advantage
• Fluency in English language

Personal skills and qualities:

• Strong Analytical & Math skills
• Critical thinking, ability to make judgement based on data and facts
• Strong Problem-solving skills
• Organizational & Time management skills, ability to prioritize critical and important work / decisions
• Strong communication skills to interact with suppliers, customers and other supply chain team members
• High attention to details
• Able to apply tools and technology to produce results
• Able to understand global business processes and identify impact of change

Technical skills:

• Strong computer literacy
• ERP
• Integrated Planning System is a +

Supply Chain & Operations

Full time

No shift premium (India)

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