Demand and Supply Planner

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, or Dr. Reddy's in short, is a global integrated pharmaceutical company.
This position is part of the Consumer Health division.

Each of our 20,000 plus employees comes to work every day for one collective purpose: to accelerate access to affordable and innovative medicines because Good Health Can't Wait. We believe that the game-changing power of technology is what will help us deliver on this purpose. Our digital transformation journey is continuous, pervasive and driven at the highest level.

We are looking for people who share our passion to catalyze this journey.

A brief about us (you'll find more on our website ): We have four core businesses: Global Generics, Pharmaceutical Services, Active Ingredients and Proprietary Products and Consumer Health.
Our manufacturing, marketing and sales operations span 56 countries.

The purpose of the job is to plan the assigned portfolio of SKUs to ensure continuity of supply to the business at optimum financials and within compliance standards, following global agreed supply planning processes.
Main objectives are:
 Consolidate Demand forecasts and generate supply plans with Contract Manufacturers (CMOs) to deliver stock at the agreed On-Time-In-Full performance level.
 Proactively identify key demand / supply imbalances, assess the risk, run root cause analysis, evaluate options, and propose mitigation plans.
 Lead weekly and Monthly review meetings with suppliers as per standard process to ensure effective management of short / medium term supply period.
 To monitor, maintain and ensure complete data accuracy of all critical data related to supply planning and reporting.

3-5 years experience in Supply chain experience within a FMCG / Pharmaceutical business
 SAP knowledge a must
 Demonstrated experience of managing a complex multi sourced SKU portfolio and Order Book Management  Demonstrated experience of managing supply issues and find and propose solutions to mitigate service disruption.
 Demonstration of understanding of using planning parameters to improve service and inventory levels.
Pro-active in analyzing root causes and proposing alternative solutions
 Disciplined in approach to tasks and good attention to detail
 Excellent track record in getting things done
 Good customer service and communication skills
 Manage high degree of flexibility and the ability to work calmly under pressure at the rapidly changing nature of the business and the dynamic market conditions

Supply Planning Processes and Improvement
 Consolidate Demand forecasts from multiple upstream supply customers (Co-Marketers & Affiliates). Build strong relationships with demand co-ordinators with assigned customers and participate in monthly review of Demand Forecasts for their portfolio.
 Generate supply plans with CMOs to deliver stock to support sales forecasts. Ensure on-time order placement aligned with contractual agreement. Management of Open Order Book, ensuring alignment with manufacturing production plans.
 Liaise within market supply coordinators / Demand Planners to understand the forecasted requirements, NPIs and promotional activities, seasonality and manage supply to achieve and maintain high levels of customer service whilst meeting inventory targets.
 Proactively identify key supply / demand imbalance, assess the risk, run root cause analysis, evaluate options and propose solutions. Ensure corrective / preventive actions in place. Review weekly supply issues (Open out of stocks, predicted stock outs), and provide necessary input for weekly SCIM process.
 Develop, agree with a supplier/ Scheduler and implement flexible repeated schedule (FRS) options / campaigns and use it to optimize production line outcome.
 0-13 weeks supply plan, outside the manufacturing Lead Time, ensuring weekly load levelling of supply plan against available capacity and inventory targets, considering agreed campaigns.
 Lead weekly review meetings with suppliers as per standard process to ensure effective management of short / medium term supply period.
 Manage monthly Rough-Cut-Capacity Planning process in terms of graph generation and provide input to Supply planning manager on foreseen risks. Work with Supply Planning Managers on risk mitigation options and scenario Planning and preparation for SRM meetings.
 Review existing KPIs and lead / lag measures to prevent undesirable effects of supply and demand changes. Action agreed performance improvement plans and integrate new improvements into current standard ways of working. Master data & Inventory
 Optimise stock holding levels within the total supply chain and adjust MRP requirements through a detailed governance of all the supply planning parameters and E2E process (safety stock, lead times, supply reliability, demand variability, service objectives etc) and in line with Working Capital targets.
 Liaise with hubs master data team to provide input with the correct supply planning parameters set up of SKUs. Be responsible for the regular review and maintenance and improvement plan of basic supply planning parameters to reflect current supply chain performance indicators and protect customer service level targets. NPI/Artwork
 Work closely with Hub NPI Coordinator and provide timely information as necessary (e.g. first production date), to allow effective tracking, risk identification and issue resolution of NPIs and Artworks
 Work closely with sites Coordinate to ensure timely launches of new products launches (NPI), artwork changes or product transfers. Work on phase in / phase out strategy to ensure minimisation of write offs linked to artwork. Ad-hoc
 Assessment of the E2E value stream to identify levers in order to improve cashflow or strengthen business continuity, and coordination of the changes amongst the community.
 Act as a team deputy / manager backup to report team activity.