Specialist, Supply Planner, PE

About the Job

- 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.

Key Accountabilities

Material Analytics
- 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.

Short-term Plan
- 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.

Strategic Stock
- 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.

Supply Control
- Take full ownership and control of material allocation, with most cost-efficient route and ensure on-time demand fulfilment.
- 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.

DIT Support
- 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.
- To keep abreast and knowledgeable about his / her role contribution towards the areas of Health, Safety & Environment (HSE), Sustainability, Energy Management, Ethics & Regulations, and Quality Management and its respective policies, frameworks, procedures, and objectives.
- Comply, support and enrich the culture and understanding of it through his / her communications with the internal and external contacts
- Participate and contribute in the design, development and establishment of an Integrated Risk Management Framework within the Unit while identifying and assessing relevant domain risks and implement measures to manage and mitigate all identified risks within the function.
- Ensure corporate business ethics and Company's Code of Conduct are communicated to employees within the function in compliance to the Corporate Policies and guidelines.

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