Job Description
S. No.
Head
Sub-head
Detailed description
1
Strategy & Business Plan Providing Input data/suggestions to the management to decide further business strategy.
Give inputs / data for making the business plan in connection to the CAPEX and working capital requirement at plant.
Involvement and effective execution of Strategical decisions made by top management
Keep track of the profitability (EBITDA) aspect of the plant and give inputs to the relevant team for further improvisation in coordination with HOD.
Analyse the key ratios (for e.g. asset turnover ratio, DSO, DPO, inventory in days) relating to the plant and suggest improvisations to the relevant team in coordination with HOD.
2
Planning
Customer Orders
Co-ordinate with Sales function to obtain 1 month firm and 2 months tentative rolling forecast for advance planning
Ensure that the order bank is up to date and pending order report is available at any point if time.
Review the order execution sequence to ensure that it matches to the customer priorities given by Sales department
Ensure from PPC head that, sales function is regularly updated with the planned despatch dates/schedules
Co-ordinate with Sales function for urgencies, if any and review with planning head to incorporate execution plan for such urgencies
Material
Ensure that the material planning done by PPC is in line with the monthly plan including buffer arrangements, if any
Take up upcoming shortages with Procurement/VDD function at regular intervals(weekly) to ensure availability in time
Guide PPC for appropriate plan alterations in case of non-availibility of material or when there are considerable delays expected in receipts
Production
Review production plan to ensure that the available capacity is optimized to execute orders on time
Verify and authorise the Machine loading and suggest improvisations to ensure optimization of available capacity
Drive bottleneck analysis and support PPC function to overcome bottlenecks in terms of Man, Machine and Material availability
Ensure that the PPC function is monitoring the production on daily basis against the planned arrangements
Attend escalations on all fronts to ensure smooth execution of customer orders as per the plans
3
Production
Manpower
Ensure that the manpower is sufficiently planned by the section heads for effective execution of Planned Orders. Provide inputs on adavnce planning based on trends of absenteism