Duties and Responsibilities

- Translate the demand plan into a purchase inventory plan
- Validate Supply Value Plan Demand over Capacity Files with demand analyst
- Organize / Prepare monthly Cooperative Supply Operation Planning (CSOP) meetings minutes of meeting (in house or by suppliers, visit)
- Feedback / communicate supply issues to Demand Planning team
- Issue purchase orders purchase plans to vendors (ZPOD)
- Follow up on spend
- Follow-up on outstanding purchase orders chase suppliers
- Issue priority lists
- Vendor Shipping Performance Past Due weekly reporting
- Clean up the order book (vendor reconciliations)
- Build / maintain good relation with suppliers (conference calls, emails, communicator)
- Monitor and redistribute excess inventory between different warehouses
- Stock redistribution / follow up on inventory target
- Analyze / recommend on prime warehousing strategy
- Monitor non/slow moving inventory and recommend actions (e.g. repacking)
- Analysis / Follow up IQR (Inventory Quality Report)
- Coordinate repacking rebranding initiatives
- Coordinate corrective actions to restore product package quality
- Answer customer availability inquiries Key Customer backorder follow up
- Follow up Customer Fill Rate, analyze missed lines (NNA) and root cause




- Coordinate with Product marketing on New Product Introduction and promotions
- Follow up NPI (GRE) Place orders and communicate first delivery to Product Marketing
- Manage Master data forecast availability
- Manage material master data
- Understanding master data + keep data base clean
- Coordinate with DC-staff and suppliers on physical logistics (lean supply program)
- MOQ / RV based on unit packs / layer sizes / pallet sizes
- Continuously improve processes
- Manage blocked invoice (Unipay) /follow up on EDI errors
- Assist product purchasing team with YN parts / constraint parts

Key Interfaces
- Internal: Internal stakeholders (Plants, Marketing, Product Management, Purchasing, Pricing, Finance, Logistics, management)
- External: Suppliers

Education
- Minimum/Essential: Bachelor's degree preferably in business, logistics, supply chain or engineering
- Desirable: Masters degree in applied economics, engineering or similar

Job Requirements
- Good knowledge of MRP: SAP (material master data knowledge)
- Elaborated Excel skills (> pivot tables)
- Power BI visualization skills are considered a plus
- Fluent in English, other languages are an asset

Core Competencies
- Analytical / Methodical thinking
- Action oriented Problem solving
- Communicative
- Attention to details

📌 Supply Planner (Pune)
🏢 Tata Technologies
📍 Pune