Africa Supply Chain and Inventory Planner

**Africa Supply Chain and Inventory Planner**:

- Job Id: 8842- City: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India- Department: Planning & Control- Function: SCM- Employee Type: Permanent Full Time- Seniority Level: Not Applicable- Description:

- Job Title Regional Supply Chain and Inventory Planner, Africa

Function Supply Chain

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ABOUT UPL:
UPL is focused on emerging as a premier global provider of total crop solutions designed to secure the world’s long-term food supply. Winning farmer's hearts across the globe, while leading the way with innovative products and services that make agriculture sustainable, UPL is the fastest-growing company in the industry. Our successes in the field add up to powerful financials. UPL delivers results from protecting crops that translate into attractive investor value. Based on the recognition that humankind is one community, UPL’s overarching commitment is to improve areas of its presence, workplace, and customer engagement.

Our purpose is ‘OpenAg’. An agriculture network that feeds sustainable growth for all. No limits, no borders.

We are one team, for maximum impact. One team with shared goals. We have a laser-like focus on what our customers need and want, on anticipating their future needs, and on how we can create innovative solutions and experiences for them. We think outside the box and go beyond our comfort zone. We believe in agility, we mix the power of speed, with structure from process. And wherever we can, we always believe in having fun

Role Summary

Head both the supply and inventory work streams in the region, with a hands-on aggregation and disaggregation of supply, inventory and purchase planning data.as appropriate to ensure planning is accurate, reflects the business plan and that the associated inventory is optimal to minimize NWC. Ensuring common process is aligned inside the region and outside globally including building competence and capacity to deal with fast moving changes

Accountable to provide the needed budgeted and LE estimates as required for different forums

Lead discussions and decisions for the placement of new products or more efficient placement of current products in UPL network plants, contracted manufacturers and other third parties.

Ensure all planning master data is clean and supply solutions proposed is compliant to regulatory requirements.

Manage and approve Capex for supply related changes to dossiers and work closely with regulatory teams to ensure all supply is complaint.

Lead, prepare and present Inventory actions as required in the monthly regional inventory review plus driving solutions hands-on for excesses liquidation, Non-conforming inventories and Ageing inventories. Monitor and review inventory handling process at all storage locations

Planning tool master user in regard to improve planning accuracy and super users for new tools to be evaluated and implemented. Lead implementation from this perspective

Review demand and supply shortfalls, and propose/flag solutions to expected gaps, collect and drive weekly Sales risk and opportunity process and communication of last estimate landing for the month/quarter as required. Propose possible solutions for approval

Data collection and preparation of working data files for collaboration during the S&OP process, lead inventory and supply planning sections regional S&OP. Responsible for the tools that help local country planners to prepare information consistently either in SAP or Excel to have linked and consistent planning information from forecast to production, purchase planning and shipment planning. Driving implementation of standard way of working across sub-regions for each applicable legal entity to supply validated information in local S&OP process. Control Supply planning to support Sub-regional supply chain managers effectively to identify risks and opportunities. Control budgets and tracking against to ensure optimal use of manufacturing resources and increase overhead recovery efforts into Costs as a result of increased volumes vs plan

Role Responsibilities

Financial
- Impacts of supply and inventory plan on financial performance - Supply risks and opportunities managed
- Impacts of inventory levels being managed on Net working capital targets - process in place to manage inventory levels efficiently and reduce excesses in time
- Work closely with the SC finance manager to create visibility of actions/changes needed to maintain portfolio profitability for cost reduction and avoidance activities
- Oversight of cross regional MD updates to ensure alignment in supply planning - SAP ECC and SNP, impacting the costing of products

Inventory
- Align regional inventory process with that of global ensuring regular reviews of set safety stocks, forward covers and status of expired stocks. Pro-actively manage the phase out of products as required in combination with procurement and supply planning departments.
- Lead Africa inventory review forum and detail activiti