Responsibilities
- Lead the SIOP process with emphasis on fulfilling customer demands while improving capacity use, inventory levels, and supply chain cost efficiency.
- Manage demand forecasting, inventory planning, and balance supply and demand, including finished goods allocation and escalation across business areas.
- Evaluate and report monthly SIOP outcomes for the assigned product segment in alignment with business and supply chain strategy.
- Coordinate closely with sales, manufacturing, distribution, logistics, and finance teams to ensure alignment and participate in cross-business capacity planning governance.
- Monitor product segment performance using standard supply chain KPIs such as on-time delivery, inventory levels, capacity utilization, and forecast accuracy.
- Identify and execute initiatives that enhance process efficiency and operational excellence.
- Maintain a strong commitment to meeting or exceeding customer expectations.
- Support product lifecycle transitions, including ramp-up and phase-out activities.
- Partner with the supply chain processes and projects team to establish, train, and roll out standardized supply chain procedures.
- Serve as functional leader for plant supply chain teams within the region, guiding recruitment, performance management, development, and training initiatives.
Responsibilities
- SIOP-Process ownership, with a strong focus on meeting customer requirements, while optimizing the capacity utilization, inventory & SC cost structures.
- Demand Planning, Inventory planning and Demand & Supply Balancing (incl. FG demand allocation/escalation within & across BAs)
- Reviewing/reporting the monthly SIOP results within your respective product segment, following BA and SCM strategic direction
- Driving effective alignment processes with all relevant functions (Sales/Segments, Plant Operations, DC Operations, Customer Logistics, Controlling) and actively participating in the x-BA governance process for capacity alignment.
- The continuous monitoring of the respective product segment performance, based on standard KPIs (OTIF, Inventory, Capacity utilization, SC cost, FC accuracy ...)
- The proactive identification and implementation of improvement opportunities towards process excellence.
- A clear & strong focus on meeting / exceeding customer requirements
- To support the product phase-in / phase-out
- To collaborate with the “SCM Processes & Projects” team to define, train & implement standard SC processes
- Functional lead of the plant supply chain managers and teams in the cluster, support SCM staff recruitment, performance, potential reviews, training and development
