MRP Senior Supervisor At Pepsico

Responsibilities

• Lead the Material Planning team for a specific category for the cluster
• Accountable for the weekly/daily material plans and issuing POs (purchase orders) to materials suppliers
• Front end the discussion with Factory Supply planners for in scope materials
• Daily collaboration with CCC Supply Planning to match materials to production plans
• Accountable for sharing the 16 weeks plan to Central Material planning team(Snacks) and with suppliers for beverages
• Coordinate material PIPO with Innovation coordinator ensuring on time delivery of new launches with minimum possible obsoletes
• Highlight any material risk that might cause manufacturing interruption to Supply Planning and RemainCo teams
• Provide insights through various management reports
• Leads daily/weekly collaboration with suppliers to ensure on time delivery of materials
• End to End inventory analytics (ex-Business wastage, excess inventory) including target of reducing inventory
• Deliver all material planning KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and RCA (Root Cause Analysis) of issues
• Manager suppliers KPIs and leads the improvement and/or escalation of any declined performance
• Analyse the reason for plan failures and work with internal team to fix the issues
• Bring best practice of market to the delivery
• Manage the group of MRP team members (6– 9 MRP planners & innovation coordinators, MDMs)
• Responsible for adopting the current systems and leads the run to standard agenda and compliance targets for Material Planning area
• Developing tools with the help of IT team
• Apply RPA (Robotic Process Automation) in the existing delivery

Qualifications

• Engineering Education
• Experience – 6 to 8 years in associated function
• Experienced in Supply Chain Planning (demand, supply planning and/or material plannings)
• Proven management skills with the ability to optimise team performance and development (6 – 9 direct reports) at L6 and L7
• High level of knowledge & understanding of the E2E planning systems & processes and experience with any ERP system (preferred)
• Strong collaboration skills and an ability to work with other functions / departments to address critical challenges as a result of market change or changes in technical, manufacturing or End to end planning processes.
• Strong analytical skills with a keen eye for detail, able to interrogate data and produce detailed outputs.
• Proficiency in Excel

Abilities:

• Team lead experience
• Team oriented and collaborative
• Problem solving know-how
• Analytic skills
• Excellent communication and relation building skills
• Ability to work independently in a multi-task environment
• Application of Supply chain principles with extensive knowledge in MRP & Production planning
• Skills in query/reporting tools , spreadsheet applications and presentations

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