Sr. Specialist, Supply Planner, PE

The jobholder is responsible to manage the supply process to ensure material availability across inventory holding points as per the agreed demand plan and business guidelines.

This role includes; plan and assess the material movement end-to-end from production plan vs the actual for semi-finished and finished good production on the correct packing type and quantity, working closely with Planning Optimization Team to achieve the committed sales plan in an optimal way considering marginal profit analysis, while contributing to inventory management and utilization of packing resources across Supply Chain network to optimize logistic variable cost, working closely with Global Shipping team to facilitate container planning.

This role includes; analysing the material and inventory, setting up the short-term plan which will enable the production to meet customer’s orders, run inventory scenarios and simulation to optimize the inventory and LVC through DIT.

Job Specific Accountabilities

• • Liaison with stakeholders to support sales opportunities through prioritize product classification.
  • Assess and implement most effective supply source to support adhoc demand signal considering overall process cost and optimum value per customer demand.
  • Contribute to Weekly S&OP process through optimization meeting and control tower meeting to troubleshoot operational constrains and discuss developed plans.
  • Review plans to meet Business guidelines for e.g. minimum demand, Grade Ranking, sales margin and DIT dwell time etc.

• • Assess grades production plan against sales plan to meet monthly sales plan and bridge operational demand gap.
  • Develop Short-Term Material Distribution Plan to establish customer demand requirement for all Hubs based on design capacity and contractual 3rd party logistic agreements.
  • Review and optimize Short term sales allocation M0-M2 to introduce weekly scenarios uplifting polymer marginal profit triggered through sales margin fluctuation, supply capabilities and demand changes.
  • Develop action plans to control inventory of finish goods across all IHPs.

• • Maintain and replenish safety stock in strategic hubs to ensure critical customer supply reliability.
  • Assess and revise packaging plan, packaging split and packaging scheduling against operational dynamics in Ruwais, Khalifa Port and GLH packing lines to manage M0-M2 customers demand.
  • Develop short term material balance to manage grade, packaging type, and hub to control demand & supply fluctuation.
  • Manage inventory by eliminating dwelling stock, establish Test Run outlet through establishing contingency plans with stakeholders (Product Owner, hubs team, control tower, Lab team, Production Planning).
  • Monitor and investigate deviations of execution of stock transfer orders and stock transfer request.

• • Take full ownership and control of material allocation, with most cost-efficient route and ensure on-time demand fulfillment
  • Analyse and challenge the Regional Demand Plan fluctuation M3-M9 to meet BP figures in term of product differentiation focus and eliminate sales allocation constrains.
  • Execute monthly cleansing data activity for carryover process to rebalance demand orders enabling system and sales update.
  • Prepare proposals to crisis team to reduce impact on partner customers during business interruption and activation of business continuity.
  • Develop execution plan for projects such as revamp, grade slate alteration, Turnaround and planned operational limitation to reduce business impact to inventory and sales targets.
  • Maintain the Polyolefin’ s Finished Goods inventory at optimum level by challenge Demand / Production to support company`s inventory target on every IHP.

• • Liaise with region and shipping in the DIT process that will result to accurate shipment of materials to the DIT locations.
  • Prepare proposal of sales volumes for DIT, RDS and SOW in order to reduce LVC.
  • Monitor control points in the DIT process that will result to accurate shipment of materials to the DIT locations.
  • Coordinate container dwell time of all containers in DIT to avoid demurrage cost.

• • University degree in Industrial Engineering, Business Administration or any equivalent disciplines.
  • Sound knowledge of Operation Management.
  • Knowledge in SAP, Microsoft office and different supply chain tools.
  • General knowledge of supply chain management process
  • Fluency in English Language is a must; written and oral.

• • Minimum of 5 - 8 years of relevant experience in Planning Occupations
  • Ability to collaborate with cross functional stake holders, influence decisions and recommend a course of action based data analytics
  • Solid knowledge on polyolefin business and products application
  • Previous demand planning, supply planning and inventory experience for at least 3 years preferable on customer products industry
  • Ability to analyse and evaluate data and make recommendation and decisions
  • Strong ERP (enterprise resource planning) system skills and MRP (material requirement planning) system skill for at least 2 years.
  • Knowledge of supply chain functions
  • Knowledge of Borouge product range, applications and polymer production
  • Hands-on supply chain’ planning processes; demand, supply, logistics, and replenishment.
  • Ability to understand financial statements, cost impact of business decisions and demonstrate skills in estimating budgets.
  • Good knowledge in (MS Office, SAP APO / R3 / BW).

• • Preferred to be certified in Supply Chain; i.e. CSCP, etc.

• • Data Analysis
  • MRP Systems; SAP, etc.
  • Analytical Tools & Programs; RPA, MS Excel Solver,
  • Inventory