Sales Planner

Job Summary:

Sales planner defines the sales targets and creates the strategy that meets goals and achieves sales and marketing results. This includes generating a rolling consolidated sales plan in accordance with customer demands, monitoring stock levels and condition in warehouses and making sure that planned items are produced and delivered to customers in correct quantity and quality.

Job Responsibilities:

A. Updating of the MRP

Review of forecast (3 months, 6 months and 1 year) to generate a plan to produce in accordance to minimum batch size and standard rates.Finish good monitoring from fast moving, slow moving and nonmoving items.Creation of weekly plan based on made to stocks requirement, delivery schedules, made to order provided by the sales planner.Cascading of weekly plans to production and material planner.Monitoring of week to date production runs to oversee potential threats on not achieving the target.Alignment with sales and material planners for the possible revision of planned schedule.

B. Risk Mitigation

Monitors internal and external constraints and creates mitigation steps accordingly. Some constraints may include the following but are not limited to:Delays RM/PM arrival and availability, production downtime, quality concerns, sudden requirements with no forecast, email responsesMitigation steps may include but are not limited to:Allocation of buffer stock levels according to identified and measured delays aboveIdentifying problematic FG that may need and creates a plan with production and material to mitigate.Advising sales team on delays in order to client manage their requirement to minimize impact.Monitors and addresses internal constraints such as, but not limited to:Slow-moving / on-moving FGSystem accuracyConservative forecastEnsure movement of FG with high forecast and SOH

C. Finance Control

Establishes baseline for stock covers and buffers per SKUIdentifies Carrying Cost targets based on required stock covers and buffers

D. Design, documentation and Filing

documentation and document maintenance of methodologies (ISO standard) for all aspects of Material Planning, Risk Mitigation

E. Admin Functions

Send weekly accomplishment reports to superiors that contain updates on:Top Customers requirements and targetsKPIsCritical issues encountered and resolved or pending actionsBig impact shift in materials and productionDelays trackingContribute towards the Strategic Planning program of Demand TeamClosely coordinates with demand and supply teams for requirements.